qbit-maid

Warning: This application removes torrents that are over the minimum age and that are not part of the ignored categories, domains or tags. Please use the delete_torrents feature set to false when first testing its functionality.

The objective is to remove torrents based on the following criteria:

• tracker domain name
• age
• ratio
• state

Install

Docker(Recommended)

package

docker pull git.jonb.io/jblu/qbit-maid:latest

Docker Run Command:

Please note it is best practice to escape spaces in variables. That is why there is backslashes in the cron schedule.

docker run --name qbit-maid -v /opt/qbit-maid:/config/ -e CRON=0\ 1\ *\ *\ * -e toml_path=/config/config.toml git.jonb.io/jblu/qbit-maid

Docker Compose

version: '3.3'
services:
    qbit-maid:
        image: git.jonb.io/jblu/qbit-maid
        container_name: qbit-maid
        volumes:
            - /opt/qbit-maid:/config
        environment:
            - CRON="0 1 * * *"
            - toml_path=/config/config.toml

Via Git

git clone https://git.jonb.io/jblu/qbit-maid.git

Qbit-maid will look for an environment variable toml_path for its configuration.If it doesn't find it, it will look for a config.toml file in it's own directory.

config.toml

[qbittorrent]
host = "192.168.x.x"
port = 8080
username = "user"
password = "pass"

[logging]
use_log = true
log_level = "INFO"
log_path = "./qc.log"
# Optional: log rotation (defaults shown)
log_max_bytes = 5000000
log_backup_count = 3

[app_tags]
protected_tag = "ipt"
non_protected_tag = "public"

[torrent]
age = 2419200
minimum_age = 432000
delete_torrents = false

[pushover]
use_pushover = false
po_key = "<key>"
po_token = "<token>"
# Notification formatting
# format: "plain" (aligned text) or "html" (bold labels, Pushover HTML)
format = "plain"
use_emoji = false
include_hostname = false
notify_on_empty = true
# Optional: -2..2. Priority 2 also needs retry/expire (defaults shown).
# priority = 0
# sound = "pushover"
# retry = 60
# expire = 3600

[apprise]
use_apprise = false
host = "192.168.x.x"
port = 8088
aurls = 'mailto://user:pass@gmail.com'

[dragnet]
enable_dragnet = false
dragnet_outfile = "./orphaned.csv"

[telemetry]
enable_telemetry = false
telemetry_outfile = "./telemetry.csv"

[ignored_categories]
tech = "tech"
books = "books"
general = "general"

[ignored_domains]
iptorrents-empirehost = "ssl.empirehost.me"
iptorrents-stackoverflow = "localhost.stackoverflow.tech"
iptorrents-bgp = "routing.bgp.technology"

[ignored_tags]
save = "save"

[healthcheck]
use_healthcheck = false
healthcheck_url = "https://example.com/ping/<uuid>>"

Logging

qbit-maid uses a named logger (qbit-maid) that writes to both the configured log file and the console (useful for Docker/cron output).

• use_log — enable or disable logging entirely.
• log_level — one of DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, CRITICAL.
• log_path — path to the log file.
• log_max_bytes — rotate the log file once it reaches this size (default 5 MB).
• log_backup_count — number of rotated backups to keep (default 3).

Log lines include the timestamp, level, logger name, function, and line number, for example:

10/26/2026 10:10:00 PM [INFO] qbit-maid:tor_processor:24 - Submitted ["My Torrent..."] for deletion.

Notifications

Pushover and Apprise share one summary builder, so both report the same numbers. The title states the outcome, the body gives the scanned total, the actionable counters, then the tracker split.

format = "plain" (default) produces a compact, grouped summary:

qbit-maid: 7 torrents removed

Scanned 42 torrents in 12s

Removed 7  ·  Orphaned 4
Ignored 5  ·  Premature 3

Protected 10  ·  Non-protected 20

Counters are grouped two per line and joined with a middle dot rather than padded into columns. Pushover renders the body in a proportional font, so space-padded columns collapse into a ragged list on a phone — the separator survives any font.

format = "html" bolds the labels using Pushover's HTML subset (html=1 is set automatically). Apprise has no HTML support, so it always receives the plain body.

Setting use_emoji = true prefixes each counter with an emoji marker:

🗑️ Removed 7  ·  👻 Orphaned 4
⏭️ Ignored 5  ·  🐣 Premature 3

🛡️ Protected 10  ·  🌐 Non-protected 20

To preview the result without sending a push, render the real build_summary() output as a phone-width mockup:

python3 docs/notify-preview.py /tmp/notify.png

Pass --mock to render the design sketches instead of the live output.

Other options:

• include_hostname — add a Host: line, useful when several instances notify the same device.
• notify_on_empty — set to false to skip the push when nothing was removed or orphaned.
• priority / sound — passed through to Pushover. Priority 2 automatically adds retry and expire.

When delete_torrents = false the summary says Would remove instead of Removed, so a dry run is never mistaken for a real one.