Changelog

March 4th, 2024

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v3.6

The long awaited Stremio addon is available! Along with other changes, v3.6 is focused on the Stremio addon that is officially offered by TorBox. Before, addons such as MediaFusion were available that offered compatibility, but with the new TorBox addon, things are a lot better, smoother, and focused on user experience.

Quick Links:

Website:

  • Adds Stremio button! Simply click this and it will add the Stremio addon to your app. You must have the app installed for this to work. If you don't have the app installed, you can copy the link that you can use to add to your devices.

  • Introduces the Integrations Settings section. This section is where you can configure how your integrations work with TorBox.

    • Adds multiple Stremio settings, that allow you to configure how you can interact with the addon. You can read more about the settings and what they do more in depth here. These settings are instantly updated and next time you try to find streams in the app, your settings will be instantly applied. No more reinstalling addons to change configuration!

      • Qualities to Show setting. This allows you to customize what qualities you want to show up in the addon.

      • Resolutions to Show setting. This allows you to customize what resolutions you want to show up in the addon. These are simplified resolutions. Read more in the help docs about what specific resolutions are categorized in each simple resolution.

      • Languages to Show setting. This allows you to specify what languages you want to show up in the addon. The recommendation is to keep Unknown on as most torrents won't have a language.

      • Cache Settings. This allows you to set what streams show up, depending on if they are cached or not. If you only want cached streams to show, then click on that setting.

      • Only show torrents larger than size (in GB). This setting does exactly that, only shows streams larger than a certain size. If you are looking for a specific quality size ratio, you can make this value something like 30.

      • Only show torrents smaller than size (in GB). Same as the previous setting except that this is the upper limit that a torrent can be. If you only want small torrents, then you keep this value low.

    • Added the Google Drive integration settings section. This section introduces the folder ID setting which allows you to save your torrent in a specific folder every time. You can read more about the setting here.

    • Added the OneDrive integration settings section. This section introduces the file path setting which allows you to save your torrent at a specific path every time. You can read more about the setting here.

  • Fixes OneDrive zipped downloads not being added to OneDrive.

  • Fixes the Show Main Tracker In Torrent setting not being cloud saved properly.

  • Subscription page now accurately shows that Perfect Money is now supported for one-time payments.

  • Updated description for plans.

    • The Essential Plan is now tailored towards Streaming.

    • The Standard Plan is now tailored towards Private Torrents

    • The Pro Plan is now tailored towards Serious Downloaders.

Service:

  • Moved the API and Stremio Addon API to its own server. This decreased request times by almost 10x. As it was being hosted on a mega server shared with all my other projects, the amount of network requests both API's were getting, they were being blocked by other requests the server was handling. Any issues regarding time outs, or requests not going through, or 502 errors have disappeared. This also fixes the uptime errors we have been running through.

  • Fixes webDAV long downloads being cancelled halfway through.

  • Fixes webDAV indexing speeds (going in and out of folders was very slow).

  • Fixes webDAV 404 error when there is an inactive torrent on the account.

  • Speeds up cache check requests by almost 2x.

Stremio Addon:

  • Introduces the Stremio addon! This is available at https://stremio.torbox.app. There are a lot of awesome features to go through, so this list is pretty long.

    • Configuration is done on the TorBox settings page. This allows for easy configuration that is done all in one place. These settings are also cloud saved meaning that they are instantly applied, with no need to reinstall the addon (ever!).

    • To add it to Stremio, go the the TorBox settings page and click the Access Stremio Addon.

  • Torrents

    • The torrents are what provide TorBox with the files it needs to download to provide you with streams. TorBox scrapes torrents from lots of different trackers (semi-private and public) for the best torrents.

      • How the torrents are scraped is a little complex, but basically it is just Jackett. Saying that, there is so much more that goes into it. I am planning on writing a blog post about it, along with other discoveries I have made over the years. There are a total of 3 different scrapers. One for Movies, one for Series (TV Shows), and one for Anime (cause I personally wanted a specific one for the best results). The movie and series scraper takes in a list of every single TMDB ID, gets the base metadata, external ID's, alternate titles, and more. It then searches Jackett for each one of the titles, and if it is a TV show, each title with each episode/season number. Once Jackett returns with the data, it cleans the data putting it into the specific order TorBox needs, and then adds it to Meilisearch (the database, which is meant for ultra-fast searches). The same process is done for Anime searches as well.

    • Torrents include a quality, resolution, size, cache status, and more which allows you to filter properly. If a torrent doesn't have something, it is simply Unknown or 0.

    • The scraper is run weekly to get the latest torrents. This also assures that new episodes, movies or specials show up in TorBox rather quickly.

  • Search

    • Searching for media is done at the top of Stremio, which allows you to quickly and easily search TorBox's scraped torrents. Not every item will have streams depending on the rarity of the media.

    • Search is full-text meaning you can search for episodes, torrent names, alternate titles and more, and your results will likely show up. Typos included!

    • Integration with 3rd party catalogues is also very good. You are able to search by the following ID's and your results will show up:

      • IMDB

      • TMDB

      • TVDB

      • Livechart

      • Anime Planet

      • Anisearch

      • AniDB

      • Kitsu

      • MyAnimeList

      • Anilist

  • Streaming

    • Streaming is supported anywhere Stremio is supported. If trying to use Stremio on the web, you are able to open the m3u8 file in an external player, such as VLC and it will play normally.

    • Low/No buffering! With the power of TorBox's infrastructure, and advanced Cloudflare routing, buffering is no more! (As long as your internet speed is high enough).

  • Downloading

    • If a torrent is not cached (does not say Instant) then clicking on the play button will start downloading the torrent to your TorBox account. A video will play stating that the torrent is downloading and you should wait for the download to finish.

      • If something goes wrong the video will state a generic error.

      • If you don't have enough slots on your account it will tell you that in the video.

    • Once the video is done downloading, you will have to play again, then it will begin streaming.

  • TorBox Media

    • You can easily view your TorBox media that you have in your account by going to the Discover tab. Select Movies then select Your Media, and your TorBox media will show.

    • Each item has it's own custom poster so you know exactly what it is and where it came from at a glance.

  • Future plans

    • Intros to videos. Sort of like Netflix does, all media streamed through TorBox will play a 3 second intro video. It will add to the professionalism and cool factor of TorBox.

    • Audio filters. If you audio system cannot play certain audio codecs, this filter is a good idea.

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