TorrentOxide is a self-hostable, browser-driven BitTorrent client with a built-in PVR: it downloads torrents and magnet links, then sorts finished media into a library, with RSS and indexer automation for shows and films.
TorrentOxide runs as a small web server you point a browser at, so the torrent session lives on the machine you leave switched on rather than on your laptop. Setup is deliberately short: choose a downloads folder, start it, then add a magnet link or upload a torrent file from the page. Pause, resume and delete controls are all present, and the interface updates itself over a persistent connection, so progress bars move without refreshing. The same page doubles as a personal video recorder, where categories, quality profiles and a wanted list decide what gets pulled next. In practice, TorrentOxide suits anyone who wants torrent automation on a NAS or home server without stitching several separate tools together.
Docker is the recommended way to run TorrentOxide, although TorrentOxide also ships as portable archives, native installers and distribution packages, and Raspberry Pi owners are supported on 64-bit systems. Optional username and password protection guards the interface, path handling is confined to the media root so the built-in file browser cannot escape it, and session state is written to disk so transfers survive a restart. The automation layer covers what people usually bolt on separately: Torznab indexers, RSS feeds with auto-download, quality profiles that permit upgrades, a release calendar and an episode monitor. If you would rather keep a desktop client with heavy peer filtering, qBittorrent Enhanced Edition remains the better-known alternative.
The appeal of TorrentOxide is that it collapses a download client and a media automation stack into one service. Automated grabs land in an incoming folder and then move into the library the moment they finish, organised into show folders with proper season and episode naming, so nothing needs manual sorting afterwards. Three import modes cover different habits: move keeps a single clean copy, hardlink keeps seeding while the library exposes the file, and copy keeps both at the cost of disk space. Quality profiles handle the long tail of upgrades, accepting a watchable release now and replacing it when something better appears, while the library scan recognises common episode patterns along with anime numbering. Because the whole thing is web-driven, TorrentOxide can sit on a headless machine and be controlled from any device on the network, which is far more convenient than a desktop client tied to a single screen.
Key capabilities and highlights.
Everything happens in a web interface served by the application itself, so you add torrents, pause or resume transfers and delete files from any device with a browser. Live updates arrive over a persistent connection, which means progress, peer counts and speeds refresh on screen without you reloading anything.
Paste a magnet link or upload a torrent file directly in the interface and the download starts straight away. No external handler needs configuring and no companion desktop application is required, which keeps the workflow identical whether you are sitting at the server, on a laptop or on a tablet across the room.
Categories, quality profiles and a wanted list bring Sonarr and Radarr-style behaviour into TorrentOxide. You add a movie or a series to monitor, and the background task searches your configured indexers for acceptable releases, ranks resolution first and HDR second, and replaces a file later when a better version appears.
Point TorrentOxide at a Jackett or Prowlarr endpoint and it can search indexers manually or in the background. RSS feeds can be bound to a category and a quality profile with auto-download enabled, while a background poller grabs matching items, skips episodes already on disk and de-duplicates repeated grabs.
The library page scans your media root and splits content into movie and TV views, classifying files by category kind, folder layout and filename. It understands common episode numbering, including specials and absolute anime numbering, then rescans hourly, on demand, or immediately after an import completes.
Finished downloads can be moved, hardlinked or copied into the library. Move leaves one clean copy and stops seeding, hardlink keeps the torrent seeding while the library exposes the same file, and copy stores a full second copy. Choosing per habit means TorrentOxide fits a seedbox as easily as a long-term archive.
Session state is stored on disk, so an interrupted run does not cost you your queue. Torrents that were mid-transfer come back after a restart or a container rebuild, and the automation database lives in the same persistence location, keeping wanted lists, categories and grab history intact between updates.
TorrentOxide is written in Rust and distributed as a single service that carries its own web assets, so it runs comfortably on a NAS, a small home server or a Raspberry Pi. Container compose files, portable archives, native packages and an installable service definition let you pick the deployment style that matches your hardware.
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Common questions about TorrentOxide.
It is a self-hosted BitTorrent client with a web interface and a built-in PVR layer. You run it on a machine that stays on, open it in a browser, and manage both downloads and media automation from there.
No. Docker Compose is the recommended route for self-hosting, but portable archives, native installers and distribution packages are also provided, and you can build it from source on Linux, macOS or Windows.
Yes. Automated grabs are imported into the relevant category folder, and television files are renamed into show and season folders as soon as a download finishes, so the library stays tidy without manual sorting.
It links the finished file into your library while the torrent keeps seeding from the downloads folder. That requires both locations to sit on the same filesystem, which is normally the case when the downloads folder lives inside the library root.
You can enable a username and password through the configuration, and session cookies are signed with a secret you supply. Serving it behind HTTPS is still advisable if the interface can be reached from outside your own network.
Any Torznab-compatible endpoint, which covers Jackett and Prowlarr. Without an indexer configured, the wanted list still drives the release calendar, but it cannot grab releases on its own.
Only for the media features. A free key enables library identification, the episode monitor and the calendar, while the torrent client itself works normally without one.
Yes. TorrentOxide stores session and automation state on disk, so transfers resume after a restart or a container rebuild, and your wanted list, categories and grab history persist alongside them.
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