We have been cooking this update for awhile! Today we are proud to introduce web streaming of any video file, our high speed, private VPN service, as well as some much wanted Stremio addon updates and overall upgrades and updates to the service. Let's get into it.

Website

• You are now able to stream any video file through the browser. TorBox has started down the path of transcoding, and media playback, so here we are. In our awesome and beautiful web player, you can stream any video file you have on your TorBox account. This is usually much faster than standard playback of videos as we are transcoding the file, making playback more efficient. Also thanks to Cloudflare's caching it's even faster than normal downloads.

  • This should be the preferred way to watch content. It works on every device, is fast and is getting more and more features as time goes on.

  • Full playback is supported, mkv, mp4, you name it, you can play it.

  • With audio selection, as well as subtitles and subtitle selection, you can be sure you aren't missing out on the streaming experience with TorBox's web player.

  • If you are keeping tally's, this official means our feature set is equal and greater than Real-Debrid's (and you haven't even gotten to the rest of this update yet). This means that now, not only is TorBox cheaper, but has more features than RD, which is pretty cool.

• New tools page. This page has a lot of interesting and useful tools for your journey torrenting with TorBox.

  • The first tool is a magnet link to torrent file converter. Simply put your magnet link into the text box and click the submit button. After a few seconds, your device will automatically start downloading the newly generated torrent file.

    • This requires the website to interact with TorBox's API to retrieve metadata about the torrent, which is why it can take a decent amount of time.

  • The next tool is exactly the opposite, it takes a torrent file, and gives you a magnet link. Unlike the previous converter, this one is nearly instant, giving you a magnet link extremely quickly.

  • The final tool is a button that generates your VPN WireGuard configuration! This means that you can download the configuration on any device, and use TorBox's VPN on any device as well. You can view all the devices compatible with WireGuard here.

    • Not only is this VPN free for paid users, it is super fast, doesn't store logs, and unlimited bandwidth. We use Cloudflare servers to route traffic, so your information is private, fast, and always connected near you. This also will increase your download speeds from TorBox as TorBox runs on the Cloudflare network as well. Using the TorBox VPN is like having a direct connection to TorBox's servers. Pretty neat huh?

    • If you have been having slow downloads, buffering, or anything similar to that, try out the VPN.

    • You are only able to use this VPN on 4 devices total before devices start swapping spaces. If you add 4 devices, and try to add one more, the first device you added will be swapped with the newest 5th device.

    • You have unlimited bandwidth (8TB per month, up to 10x more if requested) so go crazy with it!

Service

• Any torrents over 100 files large will now be zipped prematurely. This saves you and TorBox bandwidth, and decreases the risk of downloads failing when downloading a zip later on. This does come with a penalty in processing time, as the server needs time to prematurely zip all of those files. At least it is doing it in a safe environment, where nothing will break compared to a high bandwidth and fluctuating environment.

• All paid users have access to our TorBox VPN. Enjoy!

• Mostly fixed downtime issues. Still working on some storage problems, sorry, you likely won't notice as it only happens for a split second once or twice a day.

API

• New streaming endpoints. Allows you to create streams, get stream info, and more. This is a more efficient way of streaming your video content through TorBox, saves bandwidth and more.

  • At the time of writing, there are no docs yet, we are working on documentation for everything, and this is on the lowest priority of the list.

• Torrent searches should produce more results. Previously we were not using as efficient Jackett API's, but now, it should be equal to the results searched from the TorBox dashboard. Yes, we run on about 8 Jackett instances to support all of these searches.

Stremio Addon

• Instead of just viewing your downloaded content in the "Your Media" discovery page, you can now find your content in their respective titles! Say you download a file from anywhere named "Big.Bunny.4k.mp4", you can now search Stremio like normal and open the Cinemeta page, and find the file in there labeled "TorBox (Your Media) (Resolution)". This feature is extremely similar to Debrid Search, which was a heavily requested feature from our users.

  • Matching isn't always perfect. Since it can only rely on file names, if the names are bad, or look nothing like the content, such as only being "S01E02" rather than "Show S01E02" then TorBox won't be able to categorize it.

  • Compatible with Usenet and Torrents.

  • Compatible with any catelog!

  • This now allows you to use subtitles on your own content using your favorite subtitle addons!

• Search should be at least a little bit faster. On average we have gathered about 3 seconds time in total.

  • When the data is already cached, meaning someone has already clicked on that title, time can be as low as 1 second.

  • When the data needs to be scraped, it can go all the way up to 30ish seconds to get initial data. If you aren't happy with the data it delivers, come back in about 5 minutes to get the data that was scraped in the background.