Changelog

July 24th, 2025

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v7.4

Also named the “Anime Update”, this update focuses on the Voyager Search API and adding a whole ton of new features that were much needed to make the search engine one of the best in existence. Along with adding Nyaa and Animetosho searching, it brings the ability to search via all anime ID’s including Anilist, Kitsu, MAL and many more. Not just that, but searching via the standard ID types such as IMDB will properly mark the item as an anime result, allowing the search engine to then search the correct places with the correct categories. This eliminates the difficult issues of anime where they are all normalized at the edge.

Search API

  • The search API now uses the mediaType key to show whether an item is “anime” or a “series” or “movie”.

    • Keep in mind that type is still used to determine whether an item is a “series” or “movie”. You can combine both of these to properly search for anime using the API.

  • The main title is now translated into many different titles, located in the translatedTitles array key. This is useful for searching as titles, and titlesFull, might not have all necessary languages.

    • This is in a new key due to the low accuracy of the data, while titles and titlesFull are supposed to be very high accuracy.

  • Now includes seasonsNumber on applicable items.

  • Now includes a popularity rating which is used for sorting internally to provide most popular results first. Developers can use this as they like.

  • Metadata is now more accurate than before.

  • Better anime searches, you should be getting a lot more results compared to before v7.4!

  • Nyaa.si is now integrated as a tracker TorBox now searches for when the query matches anime. This allows users to find their open-source anime from the best public tracker available for torrents.

  • Animetosho is now integrated as an indexer TorBox now searches for when the query matches anime on Usenet searches. Animetosho is simply a mirror for other sites but also provides the same files in Usenet form, which is great if your niche open source anime has few seeds.

  • Adds the media_type parameter to the metadata search API endpoint.

    • This allows you to specify whether the ID is series or movies as some databases don’t have unique items.

  • Searching for TMDB IDs is now possible.

  • Searching for TVMaze IDs is now possible.

    • Only compatible with series types, as that is all TVMaze offers.

  • Searching for TVDB IDs is now possible.

    • You have to use the previously mentioned media_type parameter to specify either series or movies as TVDB doesn’t have unique IDs.

  • Searching for Kitsu IDs is now possible.

  • Searching for Anilist IDs is now possible.

  • Searching for Anisearch IDs is now possible.

  • Searching for Live Chart IDs is now possible.

  • Searching for Notify.moe IDs is now possible.

  • Searching for Trakt IDs is now possible.

    • You have to use the previously mentioned media_type parameter to specify either series or movies as Trakt doesn’t have unique IDs.

  • When searching for an anime item using IMDB, TMDB, TVDB or TVMaze, it will automatically be categorized as an anime mediaType, rather than just a series or movies mediaType. This allows our internal search system to properly route the request to the proper search outlets to get the best search possible with the correct filters.

  • When searching for torrents/usenet of the same media but different season/episode/other parameters, searches will be much faster since metadata is now cached specifically.

  • Searching with BYOI is much faster now thanks to caching individual searches rather than as a whole, which BYOI doesn’t do.

  • The search API now returns all associated IDs in the response. The ones included for the time being are: imdb_id, tmdb_id, tvmaze_id, trakt_id, mal_id, anilist_id, and kitsu_id. If any are associated with the requested metadata, it will be included, otherwise it will be null.

    • It should be noted that not all metadata requests will have these keys, as the cache loses validity, these will be evaluated in time.

  • Adds the ability for you to use the TorBox Voyager Search API with Sonarr, Radarr, NZBHydra2, and other Torznab and Newznab clients. The search API now has routes for searching via torznab and newznab! This is a highly requested feature and it is finally available!

Web Downloads/Debrid

  • Mega now downloads and decrypts at the same time leading to halved time to processing.

  • Fixes an edge case with larger Mega downloads not being decrypted properly.

  • Handles downloading Streamtape embed links.

  • Properly gives error for Baidu links that are not in the right format.

  • Adds Sendspace.com downloader.

  • Adds Isra.cloud downloader.

  • Adds Wupfile downloader.

  • Fixes Krakenfiles downloads.

  • Fixes Mixdrop downloads.

  • Adds Filespress downloader.

    • Any large downloads will get capped out in speed, and eventually stall, this happens normally unless you download via Telegram. If you need any files larger than 400MB, we recommend you download via Telegram linked on their website.

  • Adds Extmatrix downloader.

  • Fixes Pixeldrain downloader when downloading lists.

  • Adds Filefactory downloader.

  • Adds 123Pan downloader.

  • Adds Darkibox downloader.

  • Adds ShareMods downloader.

  • Adds Filefactory downloader.

  • Adds Uploadhaven downloader.

  • Fixes Baidu video downloader.

    • Implements our own custom one rather than using YTDLP.

  • Adds MegaDB downloader.

    • Keep in mind MegaDB limits download speeds for everyone, and no Premium membership is currently available to speed up downloads.

  • Fixes Rapidgator downloader.

  • Adds Files.vc downloader.

  • Fixes Baidu downloads being corrupted and .aria2 files still being present.

  • Adds Vikingfile downloader.

  • Rule34 now supports video downloads.

  • Fixes Rule34 downloads being blocked by Cloudflare protections.

  • Fixes Bunkrr downloader.

Website

  • Fixes MFA not working with password managers when prompted.

  • Dashboard is much more performant, especially on older mobile devices.

  • Downloads no longer get stuck on “Processing” and require a refresh to see the newly processed download.

  • Performing actions on the site is much faster and more performant.

  • Disallows submitting multiple Web Download/Debrid links in the same text box.

  • Disallows submitting multiple magnet links in the same text box.

  • Notifications now properly show up on the dashboard as a live notification. Previously a refresh was required to see new notifications.

  • Jobs now properly show up on the download page as a live notification. Previously a refresh was required to see job errors and updates.

  • Speedtest page now shows loading while loading all necessary data, rather than showing an error.

  • Speedtest now shows the name of the server you are connecting to during the test.

  • Speedtest now shows the “mbps” speed along with the “MB/s” speed. This prevents confusion of the perceived “low” speeds of “MB/s”.

  • Allows you to now choose HDR options specifically rather than filtering by all HDR types.

    • HDR, HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision options can now all be individually filtered.

    • Only HDR will be default, the others will have to be manually selected by users to be enabled.

  • Allows you to limit Stremio results by resolution. The settings page now includes these options for both torrents and usenet specifically.

  • Allows you to set an amount of minimum seeders you require in the Stremio settings. This setting hides any non-cached torrents with less than this value.

    • The default is 3.

  • Main page speedtest files now get the closest speedtest location to you rather than a default speedtest file.

  • Private torrents now show a specific purple “Private” tag so you can distinguish them from other torrents.

Service

  • Download satellites now show helpful HTML pages rather than strange looking error codes to the user while downloading.

    • This also responds with proper HTTP statuses, so if you are using links programmatically, don’t rely on JSON, rely on the status code.

    • Status code 500 for failure, 403 for unauthorized, and 400 for bad token.

  • Starting link downloads should be much faster (the time from requesting the link to when the file actually begins downloading, also called Time to First Byte). This is a noticeable change that translates into every file downloaded from TorBox.

    • From ~3.7s → ~290ms in EU CDN location

    • From ~750ms → ~210ms in US CDN location.

  • Starting zips should be much faster. Same improvements made as above. We didn’t take measurements, sorry!

  • Fixes uploads to remotes such as Google Drive being unreliable for some files.

  • Private torrents should now be much faster to process.

WebDAV

  • Adds .iso specific icon in the “Explorer” view.

  • Handles Gzip, 7zip, and Tar files with the archive icon in the “Explorer” view.

  • Handles edge case with some files not showing up properly.

  • Routing to /refresh on the WebDAV force refreshes your settings and downloads.

Relay

  • The relay now tracks Usenet downloads as well as torrents for much better reliability of status. Sometimes encrypted statuses and other similar failed statuses wouldn’t get updated on the database, usually due to an API restart. This resolves the issue.

Stremio Addon

  • Searches should be a little bit faster now.

  • Shows HDR/Dolby Vision specification in title as a separate option.

  • You can now limit the number of torrents and usenet results by choosing how many results per resolution you want to show up. For example, you can set it to 2, and there will be 2 UHD option, 2 HD options, and 2 SD options available.

    • This does not limit Your Media options.

  • Your Media streams now have the “Autoplay Next Episode” feature available.

  • Polish Language is more filterable.

  • Stremio addon now is compatible with popular catalogues such as Kitsu.

  • Fixes bug where addon cannot be added directly in Stremio app for some Android devices.

    • See this issue about it.

    • If you are on a mobile Android device, please re-add your Stremio addon to get this fix.

  • You can now configure the seeders cut off value, allowing to choose the minimum amount of seeders you require to be available for torrents.

    • If a torrent is cached, the seeders amount doesn’t matter and the setting will be ignored.

    • The default is 3.

  • Handles edge case where some subtitle files were showing up in Your Media, even though their mime types didn’t match the file itself.

  • Handles some edge cases where the episode that a user clicked on didn’t match the video played. This mostly happened with batch season packs, movie packs, and seasons where some episodes were combined (S01 E01-E02).

  • Much faster stream start times savings due to pre-calculated OpenSubtitles video hash. In most cases, users will see at least 2 seconds faster stream starts, but can see over 30 seconds improve stream starts for users on weaker devices, or slower connections.

    • This is only available on v5 Stremio. As of releasing this changelog, it is only available on Stremio Beta for Windows and Android.

API

  • API route /torrents/mylist now shows if a torrent is private or not using the “private” key which is a boolean.

  • Adding cached torrents to TorBox should now also be around 50% faster and is the practical limit for request times when adding cached torrents:

    • From ~1.35s → ~600ms when requesting cached items, not already on your account.

    • From ~1.15s → ~270ms when requesting cached items, already on your account.

  • Generating links should now be around 50% faster and is the practical limit for request times for requesting direct download links:

    • From ~1.55s → ~1s on first request.

    • From ~850ms → ~400ms on subsequent requests for different files.

    • Requests after should see no improvement as it is cached in memory. Times average about ~300ms round trip.

  • Checking cached requests should now be around 50% faster:

    • From ~800ms → ~300ms on first request. This is what 99% of requests will be.

    • From ~800ms → ~200ms on subsequent requests of the same exact hash check request.

  • API routes /XXXX/mylist now shows the OpenSubtitles hash in the “files” key named “opensubtitles_hash”. This can be useful for developers who want to improve user’s loading times when using Stremio with TorBox.

    • Read more about the “videoHash” behavior property here. Sending this “videoHash” prevents Stremio from calculating it, which can take time on top of buffering as Stremio must do this before loading the video.

    • Having TorBox calculate this beforehand leads to at least 2 seconds faster video start time, no matter what, but can have savings to over 30 seconds from some user testing.

    • This is only available on v5 Stremio. As of releasing this changelog, it is only available on Stremio Beta for Windows and Android.

    • Please encourage your favorite Stremio addon to implement this “opensubtitles_hash” to give you a better experience!

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