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Jackett + Qbittorrent + Internet Archive tips?
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klu9 piefed.social klu9@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-04
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Thanks to advice from users here, I finally installed Jackett & installed the Jackett plugin for Qbittorrent, and have been enjoying Jackett's abilities.

But I have experienced the following issue:

  1. I do a search in Qbittorrent (using the Jackett plugin) and my results include hits from the Internet Archive.
    I click to download one but there are zero seeds and it doesn't start to download.
  2. Then I open the relevant Internet Archive page, download the .torrent from there and open it (clicking yes to "already in list, merge trackers etc").
    It immediately finds the seeds from archive.org & starts to download very quickly.

Qbittorrent showing seeds from archive.org
Archive.org seeds not seen when downloading from Qbittorrent Jackett search result. They only appeared after manually finding & opening the .torrent file from the IA web page.

  • Why does the Qbittorrent Jackett IA search result not find the IA seeds but the IA .torrent file does?
  • Is there a way to avoid the steps of going to the IA web page, downloading the .torrent file etc and just get IA seeds directly from the Jackett search result in Qbittorrent?
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frongt lemmy.zip frongt@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-31
#2 · Quote Reply

Some logs might be helpful.

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isidro_carle lemmy.today isidro_carle@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-02-02
#3 · Quote Reply

I have encountered issues with IA torrents in the past. My issue is explained here and may be related to what you are seeing:

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19747#issuecomment-1884145923

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far_university1990 reddthat.com far_university1990@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-08-15
#4 · Quote Reply

Pretty sure the IA seed are HTTP seed. Maybe Jackett nor support those.

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klu9 piefed.social klu9@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-04
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I have encountered issues with IA torrents in the past. My issue is explained here and may be related to what you are seeing: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19747#issuecomment-1884145923

Thanks, that might be it.

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