Cli option to exit qBittorrent

[MasticoreChen]

Hello everyone,

I am running Windows 10 with qBittorrent 4.6.6. I would like to automatically close qBittorrent every day at 1:00 AM. I have tried using the method of killing the process, but this often causes the ongoing download tasks to require a recheck afterwards.

Is there a way to gracefully close qBittorrent through its parameters or another method to avoid this issue?

Thank you!

[Sam14m]

if you just want to free up your internet connections, you could use the scheduler under the speed options to limit the transfer rate to 0

[MasticoreChen]

Hi Sam14m,

I’m not trying to "free up your internet connections." My computer needs to be shut down every night, so I’ve set a scheduled task to shut down at 23:00 (using shutdown -s). However, if qBittorrent happens to be downloading during the shutdown, there’s a chance that the download tasks will need to recheck the next day when I start up the computer again.

Therefore, I’d like to ask if there’s any way to close qBittorrent before shutting down, without forcefully killing the process (as I understand killing the process may also cause the need for rechecking).

Thank you.

[boredwz]

It would be great to have an cli option to start minimized (tray) and exit qBittorrent app on Windows.

• qbittorrent --minimized

• qbittorrent --shutdown or qbittorrent --exit.

@MasticoreChen You would be able to schedule your script via Windows Task Scheduler.

[MasticoreChen]

What you mentioned seems to be the same as #8489 (comment), but I also haven't found a way to close qBittorrent using command-line parameters.

[boredwz]

@MasticoreChen For now, I suggest closing the window via PowerShell: (Get-Process qbittorrent).CloseMainWindow()

But to do this, you need to disable Show qBittorrent in notification area

[MasticoreChen]

This is a idea, I'll try to see if it works.

[ArcticGems]

@MasticoreChen Have you tried Windows 10/11 'Task Scheduler' program?

Click on Search on the Taskbar and search for Task Scheduler.

[MasticoreChen]

I haven’t found a way to add --exit or a similar parameter, so I’m unable to run it in Task Scheduler without killing the qBittorrent process, which would also cause the rechecking issue I mentioned earlier.