If I already have qBit running when I instantiate a Client, would I have 2 instances running at the same time?

[ikki4]

If I already have qBit running, and I run the command qbt_client = qbittorrentapi.Client(**conn_info), what exactly happens? Would that new 'instance' just serve for sending commands to the already running qBit, or would that make a parallel instance that would send duplicated seeding data to my trackers?

[rmartin16]

Assuming the connection information, i.e. conn_info, remains the same, this would simply create another session in the running instance of qBittorrent. This would be the same as opening multiple incognito browser tabs and navigating all of them to the qBittorrent WebUI; each tab would be its own session with qBittorrent....but it's all the same qBittorrent instance they are talking to.

These sessions are pretty lightweight....but I wouldn't recommend opening hundreds of them relatively quickly without calling client.auth_log_out() on ones that won't be used anymore.

[ikki4]

Thanks for the clarification.