Changelog

Since we re-did RSS feeds, we also had to redo queued downloads as those were also becoming a problem, especially with the increase in new queued downloads (over 1 million), and at the beginning I (Wamy) did not foresee millions of records in a single table, so there became many issues which sprung about due to not being optimized for said millions of records. Luckily the fixes were somewhat simple, and the new features easy to add.

Website

• Adds the ability for different types of queued downloads to show up. This includes Usenet and even web downloads being able to be queued. Previously these would simply error, now they can be queued and used just as before.

Service

• Queued downloads will be added on time (every hour), as before they would get delayed by minutes, hours and even days, which is not a good experience, especially if you have open slots you want to use.

SDK

• Updates all SDKs to the latest version to reflect changes in the API.

  • Python

  • Typescript/Javascript

  • Go

API

• BREAKING CHANGE: Removes the queued downloads routes at /torrents/controlqueued, and /torrents/getqueued. This was due to queued items needing their own route, rather than only being limited to the torrents endpoint. The routes are practically the same with a little more options, so if you are using these endpoints (basically nobody), then you can simply change the route and it will be all good!

• Introduces a new route, /queued, which is where queued endpoints will now live. This is to allow future expansion, and stop any possible confusion when wanting to use queued Usenet downloads or web downloads for example. API DOCS.

  • Docs for /controlqueued moved. API DOCS.

  • Docs for /getqueued moved. API DOCS.

• Adds the “as_queued” parameter when creating a Usenet download. This way you can keep it in your queued and the system will add it eventually (gets checked every hour). API DOCS.

• Adds the “as_queued” parameter when creating a web download. This way you can queue up lots of limited hosters for example, and the system will add each one in time (gets checked every hour). API DOCS.

The RSS update! This update is specific to the RSS feed system, which has been left untouched for quite some time now. We have been going through and listening to what our users have been wanting, and an improved RSS feed system has been something that has been desperately needed. In short, we added compatibility with Usenet and web download RSS feeds, better reliability, and more status views so you (and us) can see exactly what is wrong with your RSS feed should issues arise! Read the specific details below.

Website

• Adds new RSS feed UI, which allows you to view all of the RSS feed items associated with an RSS feed. This allows you to view what has been scraped, downloaded, or what has been errored out.

  • You can also click on the name for each item and get the associated file from the RSS feed source.

• Adds RSS feed status UI, allowing you to see exactly what is happening with your RSS feed at that exact moment, as well as see any possible issues that TorBox has had while scraping or downloading your RSS feed.

• The RSS feeds page has been updated and now shows a bunch of new information, and auto updates, and is highly responsive with changes.

• You can now specify 2 new options when editing or adding a new RSS feed.

  • You can now specify the RSS Feed Download Type being a torrent, usenet, or web download RSS feed. This allows you to choose how scraped items are added to your TorBox account based on the RSS feed.

  • If the RSS feed type is of torrent, you can specify seeding settings, which are the same as the standard torrent seeding settings. This allows you to choose, per RSS feed, if they seed or not. This can be helpful for adding a lot of items at a time to the cache, or if you are adding from a private tracker for example.

Service

• Completely rewritten RSS feeds with compatibility with Usenet, and even web downloads!

  • This rewrite (should be taken lightly) adds a ton of new features and makes it easier to see what exactly is going on with your RSS feed.

  • This also makes it so that it actually scrapes on time, rather than being delayed for minutes or even hours at a time.

  • RSS feeds now allow you to view their associated items, meaning that you can easily view and possibly debug any issues with an RSS feed and its items. Every item comes with a status and a status message.

API

• New endpoints for retrieving RSS feeds and their associated items. This allows you to fully use and control RSS feeds now.

  • Get RSS feeds allows you to get all of a user’s RSS feeds associated with their account. API DOCS.

  • Get RSS feed items allows you to get the latest 10,000 RSS items associated with an RSS feed. API DOCS.

  • Generally better docs for RSS feeds, as many of the docs were missing helpful information.

Wow, writing this, I don’t even know where to begin. Version 6 of TorBox has been something that we have been desperately needing, and with our recent explosion of users, something that has been even more necessary. Our last change log was v5.0, on November 10th, 2024, which as of posting this update has been over 3 months ago. So much has happened in the past few months. Just because no updates have been posted, doesn’t mean we haven’t been just twiddling our thumbs like some people think.

Website

• Adds searching to integrations page. This makes it much easier to find the integration(s) you are looking for!

• Adds CDN selection settings in the settings page under Integration Settings.

• Fixes Integration Settings tab on mobile displays being centered.

• Adds confirmation when attempting to cancel a subscription.

• Allows users to manage subscriptions by clicking “Manage Subscription”, which takes you to the correct place to manage your subscription.

• You can now view all of your previous TorBox transactions under the Account section of the settings page, labeled “Past Transactions”.

• Hosters page for viewing the current status of our newly rewritten hosters system. This is dynamic and updates every 30 seconds, and always has the most current information.

  • You can also search this page.

• The dashboard now updates properly and is much more responsive, including deletions, additions and updates.

Relay

• The relay was rewritten internally to better handle the load of thousands of torrents all getting updates at the same time.

  • Previously the client (the website or other application) was responsible for requesting updates from the qBittorrent. Once you had thousands of requests going to only a few dozen nodes every single second, things got overloaded quickly, and as a result, it looked like downloads never started or were extremely slow, even if they were downloading lightning fast.

  • Instead we now have a dedicated process that uses what the qBittorrent webUI uses called Sync. It massively reduces the load on both the database and the servers themselves by only getting the updated data of the torrent, rather than the entire torrent object which was bandwidth and time costly.

Telegram Bot

• By sending /subscribe to the Telegram bot, you can now pay for a TorBox subscription using Telegram Stars as a payment method. Telegram Stars can be purchased directly from Telegram using a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google pay wherever you use the Telegram app. This allows users who may not be able to pay with standard methods, to be able to pay for and use a premium TorBox subscription.

Service

• Allows privacy emails such as those from duck.com or simplelogin.com. This was previously blocked due to an API change from our email checking provider.

• The speed test servers have been re-enabled. These were disabled previously to prevent additional load on the servers.

• Payments are now given 31 days, rather than 30 to account for all months. This was causing users who paid in December to have their accounts lapse.

• Completely rewritten our Hosters system rather than using JDownloader2 internally. We love JDownloader2 and use it personally, but it has scale issues which required us to completely do a 180 turn and write an API from the ground up, which allows us so much flexibility, and keeps us from relying on a 3rd party to keep our services running.

  • With this change we have already rolled out some of the most popular hosters available, as well as ones that have never before been seen on any debrid service!

• New servers and networking now makes seeding and downloading much better and faster due to changes in network allowing torrents to find peers much faster and more than previously.

• Changes to our routing system and how CDN and files are found on our servers.

  • This completely removes any issues with propagation across servers and waiting for files to be available on all servers. Instead the API will calculate and find the closest server to you (or your selected CDN) if it has the file. Otherwise it will just pick the only server with the file.

  • This also allows more direct connections as we send you to the exact server with the file, rather than possibly proxying the file across servers, introducing unreliability and slower speeds than what is technically possible.

  • This allows us more flexibility as well as helps in debugging, as every link is the same. If, for example, you run into slow speeds, you can simply send us the link and we know exactly what server is having the issues.

API

• A dynamic and updating debrid hoster list has been made public for apps use. API DOCS. This can be used for status pages and the like. One has already been implemented on our Discord server using this API. Thanks Midnight!

• CDN selection from settings overrides all settings passed.

• Download links are cached in memory for a short period of time after creation to reduce time of the request down about 80%! These savings are also passed onto everything that requests a download links from the API saving time for all requests after the first.

Stremio Addon

• Thanks to one of our developers, Runage, discovered that Stremio creates a new request to the API everytime you seek or click the play button on a piece of media. Runage advised us to cache the download link inside of the Stremio addon, so that if a user seeks or resumes media, it can be extremely fast. We have implemented this, and seeking is now much faster!

• We are in the process of completely rewriting our Stremio addon to be the fastest and most feature complete addon available!

Website

• Users now get rate limit errors when adding too much via the Dashboard.

• Virtualizes search results list so that there is no lag when searches return a lot of results (>200).

• Adds referral data to subscriptions page so you can see:

  • The number of referred accounts that currently use your code.

  • The total number of purchases your referrals have made using your code.

  • The total number of days earned by your referrals using your code.

  • The total amount of money or value you have theoretically saved by referring.

• Shows success notification when deleting an item from the dashboard.

• Puts integrations page behind authentication meaning you have to be logged in to view it.

• Changes wording of a lot of sections on the main pages.

• Fixes not all search results showing on search.

• Deleting an account now requires a confirmation code to be entered which prevents accidental deletions. This was a highly requested and extremely necessary fix.

• Brand new settings page layout!

• Adds subscription section to account settings section so that you can manage your subscriptions right from the TorBox website.

• Adds section for deleting all of your TorBox downloads. Good to purge your account.

API

• API now returns normalized dates in the format: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ. Previously, this was causing issues with some integrations having to write custom parsers as TorBox would include nanoseconds in response times. This also standardizes the entire API to use UTC time.

• Adds remark about dates on Main API docs.

• Updates rate limiting for creating downloads. More information at Main API docs.

• TorBox now keeps track of how many purchases you have referred, and how many users currently use your referral code. This information can be found at the new route /users/referraldata

• You can send an IP to the /xxx/requestdl routes using the parameter user_ip which will allow you to basically choose the CDN that your user will receive. This is useful for integrations where a main API is making all of the requests, but you still want the user to use the CDN. API DOCS.

• On the routes /xxx/mylist the API only returns a 404 for empty requests if the id parameter is given.

• BREAKING CHANGE: On the routes /xxx/checkcached the API now returns an empty object or list if the cache returns nothing. (Yes we will be keeping this endpoint, it’s not going anywhere).

• Adds Baidu, Twitch, and HexUpload to supported in JDownloader2.

• Upped rate limits to 60/hour for all creation endpoints (/torrents/createtorrent, etc).

• You can now request confirmation codes for all sorts of future uses. Right now, it is being used to verify account deletion requests, it will be used for verification of accounts for dangerous things. API DOCS.

• Allows force starting a queued download from the API (will be added to the UI in coming updates).

Service

• Allows RSS feeds to include links in <enclosure url=someurl.com/>. Previously we only allowed links in <link>someurl.com</link> .

• Fixes modifying RSS feeds.

• Usenet downloads now download at over 800MB/s.

• Processing downloads are now much faster thanks to insanely fast transfers to our storage servers (over 3x improvement from 250MB/s to nearly 1000MB/s).

• We are now using our new homemade CDN system to serve new or very popular files, which should increase the download speeds from the majority of our user base.

  • Users in the west side of the world (United States of America, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, etc) now get access to our new CDN system. If the file meets all of the criteria, it will be available to download from https://storage-hyperdrive.west.torbox.app.

  • Users in the eastern side of the world (Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc) now also get access to our new CDN system. if the file meets all of the criteria, it will be available to download from https://storage-hyperdrive.apac.torbox.app.

    • We are also throwing countries such as New Zealand, Australia in this list for the time being as they users in these countries will benefit from the APAC region (as it’s closer than the EU).

  • This does not affect download speeds for files served over WebDAV, FTP, Tinfoil, or any other download method not part of our web storage system (https://storage.torbox.app).

  • This also does not affect zip downloads such as those from https://storage-zip.torbox.app.

  • This is completely automatic, and already works with all integrations that use the request download API endpoint, and is based on the client’s region as determined by Cloudflare.

  • If you are not in these regions, such as in the EU, you will still be served files from https://storage.torbox.app, from our servers in the Netherlands, no CDN is needed for you!

• Normal download speeds from TorBox should be much faster! We have noticed differences at about 10-15% increase (from https://storage.torbox.app links).

• The “file could not be retrieved” propagation error should be now completely eradicated! As soon as a download is marked as “Ready to Download” it will actually mean that, ready to download!

• TorBox now supports downloading from Twitch and Baidu! Simply put in a Twitch or Baidu link (and an optional password), and it will download like normal (no status updates right now).

• Much more reliable debrid downloads. Previously we were seeing failures at up to 30%, now we have seen it down to under 2%. Failures can be due to many different conditions.

• Faster debrid downloads. Downloads should now start downloading instantly. Previously there was a queue, and if there were a lot in front of yours it could take a long time to begin. We have now fixed this issue.

• A standard notification is now sent after a purchase was made with a referral code to the user purchasing (the referee).

• Storage files now reset their expiry every request to allow for things like pausing for an hour and such.

• Allows more than 1000 torrents to be requested at one time, up to 10000. This allows you to show 10000 on the webdav.

• Better reliability during processing to reduce failed transfers.

• Payment confirmations now have a dedicated email so that you know for sure your payment has been processed (along with the standard notifications).

• Torrents are now checked for illicit content, such as CSAM.

• A dedicated email is now sent when your account is deleted.

• Enables limits for specific debrid hosters. This allows for us to better manage abuse of our systems.

Stremio Addon

• Slightly optimizes searching speeds.

• Torrent searches now includes searches from Zilean.

FTP

• Fixes logging into FTP with capitalization in the email.

Search API

• Torrent searches now include data from DebridMediaManager, thanks to Zilean.

Discord Bot

• The Discord bot is now a Discord verified bot!

Speed Test

• The speed test page now includes test files for the US and Singapore CDN’s.

Search API

• Searches by query should be a lot more accurate when searching titles.

Website

• Optimized the dashboard to reduce lag with dashboards that have a lot of downloads that get updates.

• Adds referral banner on subscription page.

• Better explanation of referrals on the subscription page.

• Adds TorBox partners site to footer.

• Adds StremThru Integration to integrations page.

• Adds setup guide for Kodi POV addon to integrations page.

API

• On the /mylist endpoints, if there are no results for the request parameters, it will give a 404 with a specific error, instead of a 200 and success response.

• Adds new Vendors API. This is still very incomplete and should not yet be used. API DOCS.

Service

• Fixes uploading to OneDrive is user specifies a folder.

• New TorBox Partners site. This is where you can sign up to become a vendor for TorBox, and even create your own TorBox experience, all using TorBox’s servers. More information about that coming soon. Currently not in full service, although, you can sign up to become a partner already.

• Fixes downloads with some special characters in the name from properly processing.

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.