Hi, I posted this recently in a separate piracy community but I didn’t realize that this one became the main one. I want to configure sonarr to work with i2p torrents and only torrent over i2p. qBittorrent seems to be the only foss torrent client with both i2p and sonarr support, but I can’t get i2p set up with it. Does anyone here know how to set up i2p with qB or any other clients I could use? Please include detail, I am an idiot.

  • Slayer 🦊English
    5•10 months ago

    Qbittorrent isn’t the only oss torrent client with i2p support. Biglybt is another one. And qbittorrent i2p support is still in development and just now in open testing

    And theres no way to do what you want to do. None of the *arr programs are able to detect what torrents have i2p seeders. The torrenting client is only able to know after joining the swarm

    • @HumanPersonOPEnglish
      0•10 months ago

      It is the only one that supports i2p and sonarr.

  • BrickfrogEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    qBittorrent seems to be the only foss torrent client with both i2p and sonarr support

    Just FYI both BiglyBT and PicoTorrent have I2P support. Also keep in mind the I2P router itself has a built in torrent client.

    Unfortunately none of those have direct Sonarr support but you should be able to use them as a Sonarr Torrent Blackhole if need be.

    I think (?) you should be able to use Sonarr normally (in clearnet) & have it send the .torrent files to the blackhole folder where your torrent client auto picks it up as a watch folder. The torrent client is the one doing the actual downloading so if it’s already configured for I2P then it’ll do the torrenting via I2P.

    Granted I don’t have that sort of setup here on my end but it should work fine AFAICT (someone using I2P regularly can confirm)

    EDIT: Just FYI there’s no guarantee you’ll find torrent peers within the I2P network but you can always try & see what happens. The same torrent hashes would work regardless of I2P or clearnet. And technically you may end up finding peers via I2P outproxies but I’m not too sure if it’s a good idea to flood outproxies with torrent traffic long term.