I got a comment on one of my YouTube videos asking how to install search plugins in qBittorrent. It has been quite sometime and I find lot of people finds it hard to do it right; of course I too struggled the first couple of times. So, I thought that this will help some who have the same issue.
Note : I cannot link to the video, since I deleted my YouTube channel recently.
There are two ways that we can add a new search plugin to qBittorrent search.
N.B. The first four and the sixth steps are similar in both the methods. Therefore the first four steps are not repeated in the second method. Please follow accordingly when using the second method.
Complete steps for this method is also shown in the qBittorrent official github repo wiki.
Open the Search Engine in qBittorrent.
Click on Search plugins button at the bottom right corner of the window.
Goto the plugins page.
Choose the plugins you want to add to the search.
Note : Check whether the plugin is compatible with your version of qBittorrent. It may work otherwise.
Right-click on the link icon and click Save Link As.
Save the file to a location.
Now goto qBittorrent and click Install a new one. Another window pops up.
Click Local file.
Select the downloaded file and click Open.
This is the easiest way to add a plugin because you don't have to download and go through the pain of deleting the downloaded file.
Follow the above four steps for using the Local file.
Right-click on the link icon and select Copy Link Location (Firefox) or Copy Lick Address (Chrome).
Goto qBittorrent and click Install a new one. Another window pops up.
Click Web link. A new window pops up with a URL field.
Paste the URL in the field. (Sometimes the field fills automatically from clipboard if copied already)
Click Ok.
