Performance

By default, complex objects are returned from some endpoints. These objects allow for accessing the response’s items as attributes and include methods for contextually relevant actions (such as start() and stop() for a torrent, for example).

This comes at the cost of performance, though. Generally, this cost isn’t large; however, some endpoints, such as torrents_files(), may need to convert a large payload and the cost can be significant.

This client can be configured to always return only the simple JSON if desired. Simply set SIMPLE_RESPONSES=True when instantiating the client.

qbt_client = qbittorrentapi.Client(
    host='localhost:8080',
    username='admin',
    password='adminadmin',
    SIMPLE_RESPONSES=True,
)

Alternatively, SIMPLE_RESPONSES can be set to True to return the simple JSON only for an individual method call.

qbt_client.torrents.files(torrent_hash='...', SIMPLE_RESPONSES=True)