Changelog

v4.9 is easily our largest quality of life update of the year! We listened to your complaints, feature requests and issues, and decided to fix and implement nearly every one of them! The biggest feature request so far has been our search. Lately you would have a hard time finding exactly what you needed, with the biggest issue being by far, the torrent search. We decided to team up with Orion, who specializes in exactly that, to provide our searches for us.

Stremio Addon

• “Your Media” in stream list selects all files that match, rather than just the first, which led to issues.

• Fixes double (and triple) adding of torrents and Usenet downloads inside of the Stremio addon! This was an issue that affected nearly every addition of non-instant downloads, and was taking up a slot.

  • For those of you curious, the issue was that Stremio always sends a HEAD request when getting video (for getting pre-loaded information about the file), which was interpreted in our Stremio Addon as requesting the video over again. We simply deny HEAD requests and it works fine. Stremio will still work without the HEAD requests as the video information is delivered on success of the GET request (which we actually care about). You can read more about the issue here.

• Adds Dutch language filter.

• Stremio now relies on the Search API which uses TorBox’s new Voyager search engine.

Website

• Usenet credentials are now a little smarter, and won’t allow you to copy asterisks as your password anymore. It will also give an error when attempting to copy your password if not reset.

• Adds Seanime Integration to integrations page.

• Adds POV Kodi Addon Integration to integrations page.

• Adds Jacktook Kodi Addon logo to integrations page.

• Removes Dropbox Integration from integrations page.

• Adds Orion Integration to integrations page.

• Removes Dropbox Integration from download page.

• Adds torrent file downloading. This allows you to download the files as a torrent, meaning you can use it through a seedbox or other applications that use .torrent files.

• 1Fichier and GoFile integrations now show upload progress. This is helpful for monitoring their progress, as they used to only show 0% until completion or failure.

• Removed VLC “Open In Player” option due to the lack of deep linking.

• Hides Stremio “Open In Player” option on mobile devices due to it not being supported on mobile, only desktop. Read this issue for more.

• Adds filter for Dutch language for Stremio in the settings.

• Torrent and Usenet search both got an upgrade! Uses TorBox’s new Voyager search engine, which uses Orionoid.

  • Searches are now restricted to only paid users. This is due to the cost and quality of Orionoid, and our partnership with them.

  • Searches now show if the torrents are cached, right in the UI meaning you can pick instantly ready to download files.

  • Searches now also show if you already have the file in your TorBox account. This makes picking new downloads much easier and takes out the guesswork.

Service

• Removes Dropbox integration due to production level status requiring approval. The app was attempted to be verified but denied, disallowing any further attempts due to possibility of piracy.

• If a torrent contains a video file, the entire download will not be zipped. This is to prevent issues with Stremio and other streaming services connected to TorBox.

• Allows HEAD requests on download files.

• Speeds up processing times.

  • Only calculates the MD5 hash of files that require it such as .exe, .msi, .py, and other virus prone files.

  • Speeds up zipping process by not compressing. Gives over a 5x speed boost.

Search API

• The search API got a huge upgrade and has lots of breaking changes!

• The search API now uses Orion in the background. Orion (or Orionoid) is a link provider which provides high quality magnet links, .torrent file downloads, and .nzb file downloads, with over 109 Million links in their database to search from all part of your paid TorBox plan!

  • This means much faster search speeds, much higher quality results, and better sorting.

• BREAKING CHANGE: Meta search changed endpoint locations to /meta/search, following the structure of the following new endpoints.

• Usenet search allows you to search by query at /usenet/search. Output is exactly the same as searching by ID but uses a simple query instead for full text search. API DOCS.

• Torrent search allows you to search by query at /torrents/search. Output is exactly the same as searching by ID but uses a simple query instead for full text search. API DOCS.

• You can now pass check_cache, which allows you to easily check if any items in your search are cached by TorBox and instantly ready to download. This is available on all endpoints except the /meta routes. API DOCS.

• You can now pass check_owned, which allows you to easily check if any items in your search are already in the user’s TorBox account. This is useful so you can possibly remove these items or label them for users so they don’t add duplicates. API DOCS.

• BREAKING CHANGE: All searches other than the /meta now require authentication with a paid account.

API

• BREAKING CHANGE: Removes /torrents/search from the main API. This is due to wanting to consolidate all searching to a single API.

• Allows requesting to download a download as a .torrent file. Simply passing the torrent_file parameter will download the requested file as a .torrent file, for use anywhere. API DOCS.

• Using the all parameter when controlling downloads (deleting, re announcing, etc) will queue the operation, due to the amount of time required to process all of a user’s downloads. Affects all /controlXXXX endpoints.

• You can now directly queue torrents without going through checks. This is useful if you just want to queue up a few torrents over a few requests. You can send the as_queued parameter to /torrents/createtorrent and it will be added as queued. API DOCS.

Website

• Adds link back to Login page on Forgot Password page.

• Allows sorting on the dashboard! The following are options and what they do:

  • Default is the default option. It shows newest at the top, with inactive and cached at the bottom.

  • Newest puts the newest items (created time) at the top.

  • Oldest does the opposite, putting oldest items (created time) at the top.

  • Last Updated puts the most recently updated at the top. This is good for watching active downloads.

  • A to Z sorts from A to Z, pretty simple.

  • Z to A sorts opposite of the above.

• Allows filtering on the dashboard. You can filter by preset filters or by searching for a name or a file name, which was a highly requested feature. It also resolves this issue.

  • Can filter by Usenet Downloads, Web Downloads, Torrents, Cached, Inactive, Download Ready, Active, Downloading, and Uploading.

  • Searching is a fuzzy search, and likely still needs some tuning, so if you run into any issues, especially with Kanji or Chinese characters, please let us know!

  • Searching should be performant enough, but if you run into any issues, such as with a large list with a lot of files, please let us know.

• Sort and filter added to the settings so that you can set your account to have a default, if you don’t like the current defaults. Changing from the dashboard won’t override your settings in the settings page.

• Better error messages when adding torrents, Usenet and web downloads. Previously the generic errors were confusing users.

• Various style changes to front page.

• Redesigned Avatar panel.

• Redesigned More Info panel.

• Changes arrow for CTA enabled site-wide announcements.

Stremio Addon

• Fixed “Your Media” showing non-video files.

Service

• TorBox no longer selects cached torrents from other user’s accounts. If the torrent is actually cached, then it won’t use a slot. Previously even if the torrent was cached, it used a slot on every account that added the torrent. Now, cached torrents won’t use a slot, regardless. Resolves this issue.

• TorBox now checks for file size on .torrent files, prior to adding to the client. Previously this would cause issues with users downloading too large of torrents from private trackers costing a lot of download quota, and counting as a leech.

  • This won’t be done for magnet links due to the time it takes to figure out the real size of the torrent before adding to a client, since it requires contact with the network.

• Upgraded all servers to qBittorrent v5.0.0. We required API’s from their most recent update which was not available on older versions (previously v4.6.1). This should also bring more benefits such as security, and speed.

• General service stability fixes.

API

• Adds offset and limit parameters to all /mylist routes. This means that pagination is possible for users with over 1000 (the default limit) downloads to get all of their downloads in a few requests rather than not at all. API DOCS.

• Fixes cached /torrents/torrentinfo data showing entire request response.

Service

• Account statistics properly update hourly.

• TorBox now scans for viruses on commonly infected file types. Read here for more information.

Website

• If there is an infected file in your download, then the zip button and batch file copier is removed. The file is also not available to download and shows a helpful message about the file.

• Removes Long Term Storage addon from avatar section.

• Adds setting for sort in Stremio addon. Options are:

  • Seeders/Age, sorts by most seeds or youngest (if Usenet). This is the default option.

  • Size, sorts by largest first.

  • Resolution, sorts by best resolution first.

• Removes mobile notifications settings, and mobile app buttons from website.

• Removes TorBox mobile app from integrations.

Stremio Addon

• You can now set custom sorting settings for the addon. You can now sort by highest seeders (which is the default), size, and resolution. This was a highly requested feature.

• Cached items (Instant) are always sorted by resolution, showing the highest at the top, regardless of sorting. Sorting basically only affects uncached items.

Mobile App

• Removed mobile app from Google Play for the time being. It was out of date, had many bugs, and nearly nobody used the app (Only had about 1,300 installs). This was an executive decision due to time spent developing mobile apps being very high. We want to spend more time on real features that everyone will use, rather than only a very small portion of our users.

Website

• Fixes look of subscription page on mobile devices.

• Fixes look of login page when keyboard is active on mobile devices.

• Fixes centering of buttons on login page on mobile devices.

• Adds details to Usenet downloads when they go inactive.

• Removes pause and resume buttons from Usenet and torrent downloads on the dashboard.

• Fixes deleting queued downloads from the dashboard.

• Made notification, profile, and additional items popup tabs match the width of the entire set of buttons making it look much better.

• Removes ability to purchase long term storage addon.

Service

• Removes the long term storage addon. This was a voted decision due to costs and abuse of the addon. We never intended for the addon to be used for hoarding, which is what it introduced, which TorBox is not in a position to allow right now. This addon will be revisited in the future as it was very popular.

API

• Removes the ability to pause Usenet and torrents. This was causing issues, and it was never used much anyways.

Website

• Fixes JDownloader2 Integration on download page.

• Adds guide for FTP on the settings page.

• Adds Copy Manifest URL for Stremio addon.

• Adds guide for Stremio addon on the settings page.

• Adds more info to settings items.

• Removed “BETA” tag from FTP!

Stremio Addon

• Makes streams easier to preview on mobile devices.

• Better description views.

  • Descriptions no longer contain resolution as it was redundant.

  • Order now goes, Quality, Name, Size, Language, Type and Seeders (and Age respectively).

• Fixes rate limiting issues in rare cases.

• Fixes Your Media titles showing up incorrectly.

Service

• Better detection of temporary emails.

Tinfoil

• Fixes downloading from Tinfoil server.

Website

• Allows linking directly to addons, and one-time purchasing tabs.

• Dashboard has new button in yellow showing addons labeled “Explore Addons”.

• Properly fixes notification messages which overflow onto the page.

• Changes dates on dashboard and settings to absolute dates from relative dates for user ease of use.

• New action button on Dashboard with buttons with links to frequently wanted things. This will get more work soon, maybe something like a search will go here instead.

• All action buttons on the Dashboard now have tooltips when you hover over them. Some users were confused at times about the buttons.

Service

• Fixes Usenet and Web Downloads expiring prematurely if the user has the long term storage addon.

FTP

• Fixes folders showing as files.

• Fixes missing files inside of folders.

• Fixes some files showing as folders due to extension not being supported. Extensions such as .opus, .srt, .ttf were showing as folders. If you find any extensions not supported (supposed to show as files, but show as folders), please report them to us!

API

• General bug fixes.

• Properly updates the updated_at key on files when being removed from cache.

Service

• Rewrite of our web download system! Previously web downloads were inefficient, slow, and unreliable. Most pressing issues have now been solved.

  • Adds support for Mega folders.

  • Downloads YouTube videos properly.

  • Adds support for YouTube playlists.

  • Adds support for Yandex Disk.

  • Adds support for Archive.org.

  • Better support for direct downloads.

  • Faster downloads!

  • and more!

• Fixes some torrents not showing full size of the torrent on the dashboard.

• More accurate download statistics.

• Updated privacy policy.

• Updated terms of service.

• Better support for NZB names. This should further reduce the chances of getting “Unknown NZB Name”

• Our TorBot AI for customer support now has knowledge about the API, so if you have an API question, feel free to ask support! The AI will attempt to answer your question as best as possible.

• Removed transcoding video for playback on the browser. This wasn’t a very popular feature, and it ended up just causing more issues. The streaming page will now retrieve captions, as well as the video file for streaming.

  • It is important to note that not all files will be able to played anymore. For example, .mkv files will no longer work in the browser. We recommend downloading these videos and using them on your device locally.

• Downloading zips should be more reliable as well as include file size. Speeds should be similar. Please report if you notice speeds to be slower than usual.

• Fixes users getting signed out of the TorBox website when logging into the WebDAV or FTP servers.

Website

• Adds guide for JDownloader2 Plugin integration.

• Adds guide for Ferrite integration.

• Adds Cyberduck integration to integrations page (includes a guide).

• Adds Filezilla integration to integrations page (includes a guide).

• Sorts integrations in alphabetical order.

API

• Adds ability to specify an ID when requesting from /mylist endpoints. Simply send an id parameter with any /mylist endpoint, and it will return data only about that id (if it exists). API DOCS.

• Adds ability to define a password to be sent when creating a Usenet download. You can now send password as part of the form to the /createusenetdownload, and it will use that password to extract the RAR at the end of the download. API DOCS.

• Adds ability to define a post processing option to be send when creating a Usenet download. This will define what the Usenet client does with the files after it is completed downloading. It is important to note that TorBox will still perform its own processing. API DOCS.

• Downloading zips now comes from https://storage-zip.torbox.app rather than https://storage.torbox.app. Paths and methods are still the same.

Tinfoil Server

• Fixes downloading.

• Makes more secure by internally requiring API key for every download.

Website

• Allows sharing cached torrents. Adds button in menu, as well as context menu. This also fixes it to work with all torrents, not just torrents created with magnet links.

• Allows copying the magnet of all torrents. This can be found by right clicking, or tapping and holding to bring up the context menu, and under the “Extra tools” sub-menu.

• Fixes downloads on dashboard not being added or deleted properly. You would previously have to refresh the page for a deleted download to actually disappear.

• Allows exporting all torrents as .torrent. Previously only active torrents were able to do this.

Service

• Fixes some Usenet and web downloads showing permanent download speed, even after completion.

• Now uses uploaded .nzb filenames to give a filename hint, to prevent Unknown NZB Name irregularity.

• Fixes streaming from the TorBox website. Still has small instabilities, but we are working on it.

• Fixes integration downloads (upload to Google Drive, upload to 1Fichier, etc).