diff --git a/plugins/qbittorrent/workers/qbittorrent_worker.py b/plugins/qbittorrent/workers/qbittorrent_worker.py
index 4f35d251a..521d841bf 100755
--- a/plugins/qbittorrent/workers/qbittorrent_worker.py
+++ b/plugins/qbittorrent/workers/qbittorrent_worker.py
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ class downloadBT(Thread):
 
     def checkTask(self):
         while True:
-            torrents = self.qb.torrents()
+            torrents = self.qb.torrents(filter='downloading')
             tlen = len(torrents)
             if tlen > 0:
                 print "downloading torrents count:", tlen