Workaround: Integrating qbit_manage into the linuxserver qbittorrent docker container

[pgm95]

The LinuxServer.io containers have a great mechanism to customize their containers. SImplest way, used here, is by adding startup script for the container. This can be done by simply mounting the script to the /custom-services.d directory in the container.
Docs for reference.

Like so:

    volumes:
      -  /path/to/script.sh:/custom-services.d/script.sh:ro

This script will be activated on every restart.

Now, for the script contents:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

# Define repository directory
REPO_DIR="/qbit-manage"

# Check for marker file to see if installation has already been completed
if [ -f "$REPO_DIR/.installed" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

echo "**** Installing qbit-manage ****"

# Install required packages: pip and git
apk add --no-cache py3-pip git

# Clear the command hash so that newly installed binaries are recognized
hash -r

# Check if the repository is already cloned; if not, clone it, otherwise update it
if [ ! -d "$REPO_DIR/.git" ]; then
  echo "Cloning qbit-manage repository..."
  git clone https://github.com/StuffAnThings/qbit_manage "$REPO_DIR"
else
  echo "Repository already exists, updating..."
  cd "$REPO_DIR" || exit 1
  git pull
fi

# Change to the repository directory and install Python dependencies
cd "$REPO_DIR" || exit 1

echo "Installing Python dependencies..."
pip install --break-system-packages --root-user-action=ignore -r requirements.txt --ignore-installed

echo "**** qbit-manage installation complete ****"

# Create marker file to prevent re-running installation steps
touch "$REPO_DIR/.installed"

exit

Now qbit-manage.py is fully useable within the docker container and will update each time the container is re/started. After configuring it to your liking, you can get qbittorrent to activate it when you start or complete the torrent in settings>downloads>Run external program on torrent added/finished. your command will look something like this:

python /qbit-manage/qbit_manage.py -r --config-file /internal/path/to/config.yml --log-file /internal/path/to/qbit-manage.log

Hope this helps! Would be great to see a full linuxserver mod for this great project in the future. Until then this is an adequate workaround.