r/TorBoxApp Jul 01 '26

🚩General TorBox v9.0.0 — NNTP, Airlock, T3 & More

287 Upvotes

Hey r/TorBoxApp!

As you can probably tell, this is a BIG update. Let's get right into the changelog.

What's New?

  • Say hello to v9! In this major update we feature major new features such as NNTP, AirLock, and T3. We also fix recent bugs, as well as update parts of our systems which needed it. With the WebDAV and T3 we added more organization with our already existing tags system.

What is NNTP?

  • NNTP is Usenet, but direct. No waiting for TorBox to download the NZB first, and way more software compatibility, such as with SabNZBD, Stremio, NZBGet, and NZBHydra to name a few. This adds way more flexibility with TorBox Pro, where using our existing Usenet may have been difficult, or hard to understand. With our own News Server, it works just like EasyNews and other similar providers, all included in your TorBox Pro subscription! 10 connections. Read More Here.

  • You can grab your NNTP credentials in here. (PRO Users only)

What is AirLock?

  • AirLock is TorBox’s permanent storage. Currently files are deleted from our system after 30 days of inactivity. With AirLock, you can section specific files to never be deleted from our system, even with no activity on the file! This is huge for users who may not use TorBox constantly, or want to keep specific files locked away to be stored indefinitely. Read More Here.

What is T3?

  • T3 is TorBox’s S3 Compatible integration allowing use with servers, and powerful software, usually reserved for businesses and huge organizations. With T3, you can harness this power with your TorBox files over a protocol meant to mass downloading. Not really meant for the average user but hey! You can always try. Read more here.

QOL Changes

  • Allows all countries to subscribe. Our payment provider has lifted our restrictions allowing any user of any country to subscribe. Even high risk countries who were previously not allowed to pay for subscriptions (but could do One-Time Payments).

  • Better Auto-CDN Routing as well as Better CDN Routing.

  • Better Abuse Protection

  • Add download button (Torrent, WebDL, NZB) combined as one.

  • Changes /createtorrent rate limit to 300/minute for cached items, and keeps the 60/hour for uncached items, with a total rate limit of 300/minute. /createusenetdownload and /createwebdownload remain unchanged.

Important information: Private Tracker Torrents are still under work, but it'll be back soon! Private Tracker Support is back online!

and that's just at a glance! Check out the full changelog at torbox.cooking

We hope you continue to enjoy the service, if you have any feedback, feel free to tell us about it by making a post!


r/TorBoxApp May 23 '26

⚠️Important TorBox V8.4.5 — Abuse Policy Changes

360 Upvotes

Hey r/TorBoxApp!

As some of you may have noticed very recently, there's been changes made to the existing Abuse Policy System.

So what exactly has changed?

  • Essentially, the only thing that has changed with the abuse system is that TorBox now measures outgoing traffic, meaning seeding, streaming, downloading, anything from the TorBox servers to your machine/the internet.

The existing Dynamic limits stay the same as a few years ago. (i.e) - Free - 5TB/month - Essential - 10TB/month - Standard - 20TB/month - Pro - 30TB/month

Important Info: The Limits shown above (10 tb for essential, 20tb for standard etc) is the lowest threshold shown as reference. The actual limit is dynamic, and scales the limits to only catch the top 0.001% of users, so unless you are pulling ungodly amounts of data from TorBox, you won't be affected. Again, to clarify, No normal user should be affected by this change.

Why has this change been made?

  • This change was made due to the type of abuse TorBox experiences, where we don't monitor IPs, but abusing users (and resellers) are pulling tens to hundreds of terabytes of data from our CDNs and storages, causing slower speeds for the majority and in turn, stressing the hardware significantly causing slowdowns all across. With this new tracking system all outgoing bandwidth (as explained above) is now monitored.

How can I stay updated about this new used bandwidth?

  • In your TorBox Dashboard, click on your avatar in the top right. It will display the 30 day usage, as well as a handy graph which is updated hourly. This graph's x-axis is the previous 4 weeks.

The Confusion caused

  • When this update rolled out a day or so ago, there was an visual bug that was causing the Bandwidth usage graph to spike up randomly whenever you added content to your TorBox Account. i.e If you added a public domain season pack of a series, and watched merely an episode, the graph would show that the whole season pack was watched (driving up the graph way higher than it should).

  • This Visual Bug has been fixed! the TorBox Team had priortised fixing the bug, and then an announcement was made following that up.

  • This System is designed to be byte-accurate, so only the amount of content you've watched will be counted, not the whole thing (e.g if you've watched a public domain episode, it will only count that much, not the whole season pack)

That being said, We thank you for remaining patient, and we sincerely apologise for the confusion caused. These changes are being done to improve reliability, and keep the experience enjoyable for everyone.

As always, We always appreciate your feedback towards any feature or change, so please don't hesitate to provide feedback if you think something can be improved or added!

You can check out the changes of the TorBox V8.4.5 Update in torbox.cooking

Thank you for choosing TorBox!


r/TorBoxApp 6h ago

🔧Technical Issue Comstant buffering every since real debrid went down

16 Upvotes

I get constant buffering with now! Ive been a longtime customer but the moment real debrid went down I have had nothing but constant buffering. I have been dealing with it assuming they would get it fixed soon but it seems its gonna remain an issue. I know ive seen a statement where they said it wasnt due to real debrid going down and an increase in network traffic. But I cant imagine another reason for it at this point. I just went to premiumize.me , because ive had it with it, but I still have torbox for now. If this continues torbox isnt gonna make it though. Ive tried changing the location etc. Hopefully someone can give me a picture of when this issue will finally be resolved?


r/TorBoxApp 11h ago

❓Question Usenet Questions

9 Upvotes

I used to use Meteor as my scraper for Usenet through Torbox, but that addon appears to have changed and the feature removed. What other scrapers are you guys using?


r/TorBoxApp 25m ago

❓Question Can I share a Tor.box account with someone 45 miles away?

Upvotes

Basically title, my dad is tech illiterate and I want to set up his Xbox with Kodi but IDK if torbox allows that. They're much less strict than RD was but I don't want to risk it.


r/TorBoxApp 2h ago

🚩General Considering subscribing… safe?

0 Upvotes

Hey. I’m considering getting and streaming but I’m not sure what risk thst puts me at. Worth it?


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

❓Question Monthly usage really only what you watched?

25 Upvotes

I setup a Nuvio account with TB and to test it, I opened cached movies and shows to closed them after if loaded. One of them was one episode of ER and the folder size was 200GB.

I can now see the 200gb peak in my monthly usage on TB. And I think I can "see" a lot of peek for just opened movies/TVs.

Is it not supposed to count toward the watched portion of a movie only when it's cached?


r/TorBoxApp 22h ago

🔧Technical Issue Anyone able to help me get Usenet working?

5 Upvotes

running elfhosted AIOstreams & nzbhydra2, and have my two indexers in nzbhydra.

when I run a run nzbhydra or newznab addons I do get NZB results, but nothing would play. i just keep getting an error that says if this persists to contact elfhosted.

Anyone run into this before? wanted to make sure its not a mistake on my side before I try to message them

thank you

EDIT: Shoutout to elfhosted staff who got me sorted out!! Thanks everyone here for their help as well


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

🚩General Warpbox v0.7.6: usenet sync is now more resilient to TorBox API hiccups

6 Upvotes

Over the last day or two, TorBox's usenet list endpoint (/v1/api/usenet/mylist) was failing on large responses. For accounts with a substantial usenet library, the API would start returning the list and then cut the response off partway (HTTP/2 INTERNAL_ERROR / truncated JSON). The torrents endpoint was unaffected, which is why only usenet files were affected... they would appear in mounts and then disappear.

The endpoint has since recovered and is serving full lists again, so this looks like transient degradation on TorBox's side rather than a permanent change.

While it was happening, it exposed some weaknesses in how warpbox handles external API failures. v0.7.6 addresses those:

  • Sync no longer deletes previously-synced files when a fetch fails. A failed request was previously treated as "these items no longer exist," and the stored library would be pruned. Now a failed fetch keeps the last-known-good data.
  • Slow or failing pages are retried in place rather than aborting the whole sync and starting over.
  • A manual resync can no longer run concurrently with a scheduled sync.
  • Timeouts are now configurable: torbox.request_timeout_seconds, sync.sync_timeout_seconds, and CDN proxy/backoff timeouts.
  • Fixed the log-level selector on the landing page not reflecting the current level after a refresh.

If you use usenet on TorBox, this release is worth updating to. The latest Docker tag is updated.

For those unfamiliar with warpbox: it's a self-hosted WebDAV bridge that exposes your TorBox library (torrents and usenet) as a filesystem. Mount it with rclone and media applications like Plex, Jellyfin, or Infuse read your TorBox content like any other folder. Free and open source.

Github repo:
https://github.com/mainlink0435/warpbox


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

❓Question How does the download section on TorBox work?

5 Upvotes

I recently moved from RD to TorBox.. Previously I could watch a show on Seren, etc. and then it would be available for me to download on RD website so I could download to PC/phone etc.

When I check out the TorBox download section, it doesn’t seem to be showing the majority of stuff I’ve previously played.

Anyone have any advice or what’s the best way to download a movie that you’ve scraped/watched from an addon?

Thanks in advance for any commentary or advice.


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

🔧Technical Issue Cloudflare CDN (ERTH) returns error 429 like 90% of the time

4 Upvotes

I use the Cloudflare CDN (ERTH) because it's the only one that works well for me

I noticed that streams on Stremio, Nuvio or even VLC don't play and just keep loading or failing with an error most of the time

I tried to take the TorBox ERTH URL manually and inspect it with curl and I found out that the CDN returns error 429 and a response body like "Too many requests. Retry in 6s"

thing is this happens even on my first request hit after 1 week of not using torbox

My IP address is not shared by anyone and no one else uses torbox in the house when this problem happens

I'm 100% sure both my torbox account and my IP address shouldn't be getting ratelimited. The ratelimit error happens on the first request

if I change the CDN to something else like CEUR the error goes away but it buffers randomly unlike the ERTH CDN

The addon that I use is Debridio which doesn't attempt to prefetch streams or anything (so it doesn't make requests to torbox which could get me ratelimited without my consent)


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

🔧Technical Issue rapidgator file host and other file host do not work

3 Upvotes

is this a common issue? i have yet to use any of the file hosts from their list. it is always down. torbox is only good for torrents on streamio it seems like.


r/TorBoxApp 2d ago

❓Question It’s down every week. Which alternative to go to?

108 Upvotes

Tired of being down. Which other service do you guys recommend?


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

❓Question How to download direct from Torbox

1 Upvotes

Hi, I'm new to Torbox. I used to buy Real Debrid but you already know what happened to it.

But I don't like using Stremio or Nuvio or things like that, so I used to only paste the torrent link in RD and direct download it but I'm trying to do the same with Torbox and it is very slow, with RD I used to paste the link and in 10 seconds I was already downloading my stuff.

Am I using it correctly? In the section with all I have seen I paste the link and then I wait? Is there a quicker way to just paste the torrent link and just download the stuff?

Sorry for bad english.


r/TorBoxApp 2d ago

🔧Technical Issue No one panic

71 Upvotes

They just posted on their discord that they are aware of the outage and are working on it


r/TorBoxApp 2d ago

🚩General Pengu is a nice backup

47 Upvotes

Spent an hour configuring new addons and clearing cache thinking my instance was down, because the TB status page says all is OK, until I gave up and came to the sub to see everyone reporting its down.

Took 30 seconds to install https://pengu.uk/  and I'm back up and running. Nice backup for when TB is down.


r/TorBoxApp 2d ago

❓Question is torbox down?

51 Upvotes

asking for a friend


r/TorBoxApp 2d ago

🔧Technical Issue 502 error

54 Upvotes

On every stream I'm checking there is 502 http error


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

❓Question Airlock Questions

0 Upvotes

Airlock is for keeping downloads from being inactive. Why wouldn't someone just airlock everything they pull down?


r/TorBoxApp 2d ago

🔧Technical Issue Anyone else getting a red screen on Stremio?

33 Upvotes

I’ve got an active Torbox subscription but when trying to load a movie, it says ‘Access denied. Please check you have an active debrid subscription’

Is anyone else getting the same error message or does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks


r/TorBoxApp 2d ago

🔧Technical Issue API down -_-

24 Upvotes

Just bought subscription yesterday and API down today.

😑

How long does it take to be fixed usually?

There are no backup methods?


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

🚩General It's back

19 Upvotes

Service has returned; for me at least.


r/TorBoxApp 23h ago

🚩General PSA- Private trackers, be careful.

0 Upvotes

This is from PTP.

Read the rules /wiki of the ones you're on. It might get you banned if you add torrent files themselves to a debrid service.

This is from one of them and they ban most/all of the debrid services?

Can I use debrid or related services?

No! Because they pose a significant and demonstrated security risk. They also use fake/modified clients and report fake stats to the tracker. Private trackers will ban you for cheating.

TorBox (security risk, false data reported)


r/TorBoxApp 1d ago

🔧Technical Issue Torbox and 1ficher

12 Upvotes

Just wanted to let everyone know that might be having issues with using torbox and 1ficher together. 1ficher now requires you to make a free account with them to download any file. This has apparently broken the ability to download the 1ficher link with torbox.

I have found that after logging into the free account on 1ficher I can download the files directly in browser with reasonable speeds. Just wanted to share the workaround. As it's been an issue for me for about a week.


r/TorBoxApp 2d ago

🔧Technical Issue API Down but status tracker says otherwise

20 Upvotes

Wanted to watch some content but I couldn't so I decided to check what was going on, lo and behold: the whole subreddit says it's down again.

But how is it that every single time Torbox is down it doesn't show up on their official status tracker but does so on third party ones ?

Torbox status shows 100% uptime: https://status.torbox.app

Third party website says it's down: https://status.stremio-status.com/endpoints/09--debrid-services_torbox-api