qbittorrent_plugin_filter_files.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

import json
import requests
import os
import time

# plugin for qBittorrent to filter out files in torrents by name or extension

# Enable web-interface.
# Check "Bypass authentication for localhost"

url = 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/'

torrent_hashes = '''
	65c5d8a71a7b824acf39232f8068647cdaaff159
6b887370d8b52925d436d1bfec040df84c8dd645
'''

# ignorecase
block_extensions = ['psd']

# ignorecase # not in dir names
block_words_in_filenames = []

########################################################

if url[-1] != '/':
	url += '/'

for torrent_hash in [ x.strip() for x in torrent_hashes.split('\n') if len(x.strip()) != 0 ]:

	data = requests.get(url + 'api/v2/torrents/files?hash=%s' % torrent_hash).text
	data = json.loads(data)

	for file_id, file_data in enumerate(data):

		for ext in block_extensions:
			if file_data['name'].lower()[-len(ext):] == ext.lower():
				print(file_data['name'])
				r = requests.post(url + 'api/v2/torrents/filePrio',
					data = {'hash' : torrent_hash, 'id' : str(file_id), 'priority' : '0'})
				
				# without pauses qBittorent can choke on requests
				time.sleep(0.05)
			
		for word in block_words_in_filenames:
			if word.lower() in file_data['name'].rsplit('/', 1)[1].lower():
				print(file_data['name'])
				r = requests.post(url + 'api/v2/torrents/filePrio',
					data = {'hash' : torrent_hash, 'id' : str(file_id), 'priority' : '0'})
				
				# without pauses qBittorent can choke on requests
				time.sleep(0.05)

Hey, for those who still need it: I've made some updates to the script, including automatically fetching the torrent list and some other QoL improvements: https://gist.github.com/talanov/29bacef1ba1cb7aa89caa4c0bc9cb9bd