A much needed update which fixes a lot of issues, and solves pricing problems for TorBox. This means that better features, more servers, faster servers and more discounts are on the way! This is a much needed step for our infrastructure with the boom in Stremio and Kodi users coming in. You can now use addons such as MediaFusion to instantly watch movies using TorBox on Stremio. We are also developing our own addon with the most content ever seen for a Stremio addon, which will top even Torrentio (which does not even support TorBox yet). With cached downloads becoming more of a necessity, we decided to move ahead with this. Please enjoy!

PS. You can now comment on these changelogs, so tell us what you think!

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• Moves new storage to self hosted storage in Luxembourg.

  • Old GoFile downloads will still work until they expire. These torrents are not cached, and will not be migrated. The last GoFile link will stop working 1 month from now, on February 19, but you likely won't even notice. (This hasn't been extensively tested as we have no way to do so on our testing servers, so for the first few hours, we will be monitoring the situation).

• Brings back zipped downloads. When we moved to GoFile.io we were not able to support zipped files from there. Now that we have moved to self hosting, we are able to support zipped downloads.

  • Downloads are only available for 1 hour just like normal downloads. As long as you start the download within the hour time limit, you won't even notice a problem.

  • Zipped downloads are not multi-connection, and don't tell you how long they have left to download. This will be fixed eventually as we dial in our zipping in a little bit better.

  • Zipped downloads also have a speed decrease of about 10% from our benchmarks as they are zipped on the fly, and are not pre-made (to save space and money).

• Cached downloads are now available forever (basically), and only get deleted if not downloaded for more than 30 days. So if you create a torrent, and it stops seeding after 24 hours, it will still be cached and available for you to download. You can even remove a torrent from your dashboard, and re-add it a few days later, and it will instantly be available for you to download.

  • This means that in most cases popular torrents will already be available to download.

  • Cached downloads do not count as active downloads for anyone but free users. That means that if a torrent is already cached, then you won't have to wait, and it won't cost you a download spot. Active downloads now mean only downloads that are actively downloading or seeding from peers. Theoretically, if all you use are cached downloads, you can have infinite torrents available to you.

    • This also means that any torrents that may be over your limit are allowed to you now if they are cached. If a Pro user already downloaded a 300gb torrent, and you also download it as a Essential user, you also have access to it. This also applies to free users. It costs us nothing to let you download already downloaded torrents so enjoy the feature :)

  • We hope that eventually we will have a larger cache than even Real-Debrid. We are actively working on caching the most popular torrents, so most things will be ready for you already.

• OneDrive and Google Drive work a little bit better now. It seems like sometimes Google blocks the server's requests due to location, so that may be an issue to tackle in the next update.

• Made the site more responsive. When you pause a torrent, it will instantly be paused. Same with resuming. When you click on the download button it will now show a loading icon, while it is retrieving your download link, which leads to a better user experience. Some users were complaining about the perceived speed of the site, so this was a needed change.

• The quick stats only show up when you have downloads in a category that it pertains to. So if you only have active downloads, that's all that will show up. If you don't have any inactive downloads, that's all that will show up.

• Removes notifications when you pause, resume, or delete a torrent. It just does as you say. The notifications felt redundant.

• Adds owner to torrent.

  • What this means is that if you download a cached torrent that someone is currently downloading (either in progress, or is processing), then you are not allowed to control that torrent. This only basically means that you cannot pause or resume the torrent.

• Basically no bug fixes!

API (has breaking changes)

• We tried our best to avoid breaking changes, but here they are. We hope it's not too inconvenient.

• Requesting download structure has changed a little bit. You no longer have to give a folder_id, but are required to specify a boolean for the new param, zip_link. This allows you to get the direct link for a zipped download for the entire torrent. You can read more about it on the docs page. API DOCS.

  • The examples for these changes have not been updated yet, but the requests have been.

• Requesting zips are no longer used, as it is mostly internal as you now need a presigned_token that you can't generate yourself. This has mostly been replaced by the request download endpoint, as the request zip endpoint now serves the download rather than return a link. API DOCS.

  • The examples for these changes have not been updated yet, but the requests have been.

  • If you want to download the zip of a torrent, simply use the request download endpoint.

• Google Drive and OneDrive endpoints no longer require the folder_id parameter and instead take the zip parameter, which is a boolean stating if you want it zipped or not.

NOTE: Downloads will likely be (sort of) slow for the first few weeks as we build up cache and begin adding more servers. Once files have been migrated around and the load has gotten a little lighter on the first few servers, things will be a lot faster. Hopefully you never even notice it.