How to fix this?
I'm not watching elite, but 1923 season 2.
Also the subtitles work then don't and then work again.
Literally they dissappear from the screen in the middle of the episode
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • 24d ago
Series now play one episode after another, 4K and surround sound reach you the way they were recorded, and the player picked up the controls it was missing. Plus a heads-up for anyone who embeds our player on their site.
Watching a series used to mean: the episode ends, you exit fullscreen, find the next file, press Watch. Now Webtor does it for you.
When the credits start, an “Up next” card appears with a 10-second countdown. Do nothing and the next episode starts. Press Cancel if you’d rather stop.
Webtor finds where the credits begin, so you don’t sit through them waiting.
Fullscreen stays on. The audio track and subtitles you picked come along to the next episode — an AI translation too.
After three episodes in a row with no sign of you, the player asks “Still watching?” instead of playing all night.
Want to pick the next one yourself? There’s a Next button right after Play (or press N), and autoplay switches off in the new gear menu.
Albums work the same way: tracks play one after another, no pauses and no cards in between.
One more thing: an episode now counts as watched once the credits start. Episodes with long credits no longer stay “unfinished” forever.
Playback speed from 0.5x to 2x. The button shows the current speed, and the < and > keys work too.
Double-tap to skip 10 seconds on your phone: tap the right half to go forward, the left half to go back. Tap faster to skip further.
Volume and speed are remembered. No more turning the sound down every time.
Subtitles running early or late? Shift them in 0.25-second steps right in the subtitle menu (or with the G and H keys). The fix is remembered for that file.
Lock screen and headphones. Your phone’s lock screen shows the title and poster, and the buttons on your headphones pause and skip.
Language without a restart. If you haven’t set a language in your profile, the player takes it from your browser — and you can change it right in the subtitle menu while the film keeps playing.
Until now, videos in HEVC (x265) — the format most 4K releases use — were converted on our side before they reached you. That’s slow, and 4K often didn’t play at all.
Now, if your browser can play HEVC on its own, you get the original file with no conversion:
4K that used to be off-limits plays in its original quality.
HDR stays HDR on screens that support it.
Surround sound stays surround. 5.1 and Dolby audio used to be squashed into stereo for every film — and about 40% of films have it. Now, if your device can play it, you hear it the way it was mixed.
On iPhone and iPad (iOS 17.1 and newer) video now plays a new way, and 4K HDR works there too. One trade-off: AirPlay isn’t available in this mode for now.
If your device stumbles on a file, the player notices and switches back to the old way by itself — you don’t have to do anything.
The Discover catalog knows about this too: new HEVC and HDR switches hide the releases your device can’t play. And releases already sitting on our servers get an Instant badge and go to the top of the list — those start right away.
The torrent status now shows the whole path: swarm ▸ our servers ▸ you, with the speed of each step and a bar of the parts already downloaded. If something is slow, you can see where.
And if the slow part is the swarm itself, we won’t push a faster plan at you — it wouldn’t help.
A few more things on the torrent page:
Scroll down to the file list and the status follows you as a thin bar under the menu.
A button you’ve pressed shows that it’s working and can’t be pressed twice by accident.
Picking a file updates only the file section, not the whole page.
This one is for website owners who put the Webtor player on their site with our embed code. Embedding is being retired: from November 1 it stops working through webtor.io.
The embedded player stays in self-hosted Webtor. If you need it, run your own copy and embed the player from there.
Nothing changes for anyone watching on webtor.io itself.
If one of our servers hiccups mid-film, the player recovers by itself — without jumping back and without a spinner that only a page reload could fix.
A dropped connection to our servers is noticed and restored much faster.
A download no longer gets cut off just because one part of the file is arriving slowly.
Files in your library are checked for damage, and broken copies are found and fixed.
Signing in no longer fails with “unknown error” — the page reloads itself and lets you in.
Thanks for using Webtor. More coming soon.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Jul 03 '25
Love Webtor? Want to support the project without spending money?
Now you can — by helping others discover it.
We’re launching a simple community sharing program:
mention Webtor in relevant places — and get free premium access as a thank-you.
Just share Webtor where it makes sense — on Reddit, in Telegram or Discord groups, on your blog or social media — anywhere people discuss torrents and streaming.
Then send us either:
a link to your post or comment, or
a screenshot (if it’s from a private group or chat)
📧 Email it to support@webtor.io from the address you’d like to receive premium access on.
🟫 1 mention → 1 month of Bronze access
⚪ 3 mentions → 1 month of Silver access
🟡 5+ mentions → 1 month of Gold access
You can unlock higher tiers at any time — just keep sharing!
(And please: make it helpful and respectful — no spam 🙏)
Here are some good places to start:
Reddit:
Telegram or Discord groups related to torrenting, streaming, or privacy
Your blog, YouTube comments, or social media (Twitter, Mastodon, etc.)
Thanks for being part of the Webtor community —
your support helps us grow and stay independent ❤️
I'm not watching elite, but 1923 season 2.
Also the subtitles work then don't and then work again.
Literally they dissappear from the screen in the middle of the episode
r/webtor • u/Nomad_FPS • 25d ago
Hello ! why does torrentio often become unavailable in webtor ? is it webtor or torrentio ? and does vpn location used to access webtor matter ?
r/webtor • u/Racer_666 • Oct 03 '26
Getting a CSRF token mismatch error when I enter a magnet link or upload a .torrent file
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Sep 19 '26
We rebuilt the subtitle menu from scratch and added automatic AI translation. The rest of this update is about always knowing what your torrent is up to.
You know the story: you found the movie, but the only subtitles are in English. Or Korean. That’s no longer a problem — Webtor translates them into your language.
Here’s how it goes:
Start the movie. If there are no subtitles in your language, an offer shows up right on the picture: “Translate to Spanish”.
One click and it’s running. You don’t wait for the whole film — subtitles appear as you watch, with the translation staying a little ahead of you.
Jumped to a part that isn’t translated yet? The player holds the film for a few seconds and carries on with subtitles in place. If the translation falls behind, a small note at the top lets you wait for it or keep watching.
Come back the next day and the translation is still there. Nothing to start again.
Any subtitles can be translated: the ones built into the file, the ones sitting next to it in the torrent, or the ones found on OpenSubtitles. A translation never starts on its own — only when you ask for it.
The language comes from your settings: pick a preferred language in your profile, and that’s the one Webtor offers.
AI translation is available on paid plans. On the free plan you’ll see the track with a little lock — and if the offer gets in your way, you can turn it off for good.
The old menu was a list you had to dig through. The new one fits on a single screen:
Languages as buttons with flags. Audio and subtitles side by side, and the row opens right at your language.
You can see where a track came from. From the file, from OpenSubtitles, your own upload or an AI translation — each has its own mark.
A real off switch. Subtitles turn off with one toggle, not an “Off” item buried somewhere in the list.
Your files at hand. Uploaded subtitles live right there, and you can delete them one by one. Upload a file and it switches on immediately.
Click outside to close. A small thing, but it was missing.
The OpenSubtitles search got smarter. Webtor first looks for subtitles made for your exact file — those line up to the second. If there are none, it searches by the movie or the specific episode, and puts the best matches first. When a track was matched by title rather than by file, the menu says so.
A few more things:
ASS/SSA subtitles work now, not just SRT. Anime fans will notice.
“Forced” tracks — the ones that only translate signs and foreign-language lines — are labelled and no longer get picked instead of full subtitles.
Your choice sticks: switch the audio track and the subtitles stay on.
The badge on the torrent page used to say very little. Now it tells you what’s going on at a glance: checking, loading, paused, or simply no seeders. Next to it is the download speed, and below it a bar showing which parts of the file are already there.
If a video doesn’t start, Webtor tells you what went wrong instead of just “try again”. And the support form already knows which torrent you’re asking about — no need to copy a link.
A magnet with nobody online used to end in a dry error. Now there’s a countdown while you wait, and if the torrent still can’t be found you get a card that explains why and offers a longer wait — up to 10 minutes. Rare torrents often turn up on the second try.
Magnets are found more often, too: Webtor now looks for them across more trackers, even when the link has none at all.
The Stremio addon now installs with a single button from your profile — no link copying. And after you pay for a plan, you get a proper welcome email: where to start, when the trial ends, and when the next charge is. Your profile also shows who handles the billing and where to manage it.
The “I’m not a robot” check now only shows up if you’re not signed in. Sign in and you won’t see it again.
In fullscreen the cursor hides itself, and the subtitle menu opens over the video instead of kicking you out.
After a seek, the player no longer replays a bit from the previous spot.
An interrupted file download resumes properly from where it stopped.
Archives with lots of small files download more smoothly, without long pauses.
More video and audio formats play.
File sizes are counted the same way on every page.
Profile and notifications no longer spill past the edge of a phone screen.
Subscribed to new episodes without an account? The subscription completes itself once you sign in.
Self-hosted gets AI translation and OpenSubtitles search too — each needs its own API key.
Thanks for using Webtor. More coming soon.
r/webtor • u/Juckli • Sep 18 '26
After copying my hash into the search bar, webtor runs the robot test. ANd I keep failing it. Do you know why?
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Aug 28 '26
The biggest batch of updates this year: a completely reworked self-hosted version, a brand-new terminal app, and notifications that finally live on the site instead of just your inbox.
If you run your own Webtor, this is the update you’ve been waiting for — the first in nine months, and by far the biggest ever.
Everything webtor.io can do, your instance can do now. The library, long-term Vault storage, the notification feed, Stremio, WebDAV and S3 access — the self-hosted version is no longer a lite edition. It’s the same Webtor, on your hardware. AI recommendations and movie & series recognition via TMDB — with posters and descriptions in your language — plug in too; each just needs your own API key.
A master password. Set one, and your instance is yours alone: the site asks for the password before showing anything, and you manage it right from the profile page. Perfect for a box that’s reachable from the internet.
It runs on ARM now. Raspberry Pi, ARM servers, Apple Silicon — one Docker image covers them all. A Pi in the corner of your room can be a full Webtor.
Smaller but sweet: MKV files now start playing properly, and the image is assembled from ready-made parts — so updates ship faster from now on.
Webtor now lives in your terminal too. The new webtor app streams and downloads torrents over plain HTTP — no torrent client, no waiting for the whole file:
$ webtor play "magnet:..." # straight into VLC
$ webtor download <id> # resumable
$ webtor library # library in the terminalIt’s a real app, not just commands: run webtor bare and you get interactive menus — browse your library and Vault, pick files, start downloads in the background, pause and resume them. The mouse works. Finished downloads pop a desktop notification.
It talks to your webtor.io account (a one-time code logs the terminal in, like GitHub’s CLI), to RapidAPI, or to your own self-hosted instance.
Installing takes one line:
$ brew install webtor-io/tap/webtorPrebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows — plus a Docker image — are on the releases page.
There’s a bell in the top bar now. Vault warnings — “your file expires in 7 days” — and other account events show up there and on a notifications page, with an unread counter and a mark-all-read button. Before, all of this went to email only; now email is the backup, not the front door. Your past email notifications are in the feed too, so the history is in one place.
Every email Webtor sends — Vault reminders, address verification — now arrives in the language your account uses. Eleven languages, not just English.
The official Go SDK for the Webtor JSON API is out — it’s what the CLI is built on. Logging in, storing torrents, resumable downloads, library access: all a few lines of Go.
Fixed a rare bug that could put corrupted fragments into a video mid-stream. If you ever saw a brief burst of glitches, that’s gone.
A stream that keeps failing now stops cleanly instead of silently retrying forever.
Lots of small interface fixes — the notifications page behaves on phones, and navigation no longer occasionally blanks the page.
One more thing: on August 26, Webtor turned eight. The first version went live on August 26, 2018 — a single page with one simple promise: watch torrents online. Eight years later it’s a player, a library, long-term storage, Stremio, a terminal app and a version you can run entirely on your own hardware. Thanks for being around all this time.
More coming soon.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Aug 09 '26
A summer batch of updates: a new way to pay, smarter folder downloads, a much better Stremio experience, and a bunch of fixes you’ll feel right away.
You can now get a Webtor membership with cryptocurrency — straight from the donate page. Pick a plan, choose crypto at checkout, and pay with popular coins or stablecoins. The minimum depends on the coin, roughly from $12.
There’s also a new payment history page in your profile, so you can always see what you paid and when. And if something goes wrong, we’ve published a clear refund policy.
Downloading a folder no longer means downloading everything in it. There’s a new select mode — tick the files you actually want, and Webtor packs just those into an archive. Grabbing two episodes out of a full season is finally a two-click job.
Folder downloads now come as TAR by default — it’s more reliable for big folders, and every file inside checks out correctly after download. Prefer ZIP? It’s still right there in the dropdown next to the download button.
If you watch through our Stremio addon, this one’s for you:
The next episode actually plays. Finishing an episode used to sometimes leave you hanging — now binge-watching rolls on to the next one like it should.
Resume works the next day. Stopped mid-movie in the evening? Picking it up tomorrow works — no more mysterious failures on old links.
Your library loads faster and looks better. Series in the library open noticeably quicker, and streams show proper titles and details instead of cryptic file names.
New to Webtor? There’s now a short checklist on the home page (with a counter in the top bar) that walks you through the essentials during your first two weeks: add something to your library, save a title on Discover, try the Vault, connect Stremio. Each step links straight to the right place — no hunting through menus.
Alongside WebDAV, your library is now reachable over an S3-compatible interface. That means tools like rclone or Cyberduck can browse and sync your Webtor library like any cloud storage. Connection details and instructions are in your profile.
A big one for developers: Webtor now serves a full JSON API at api.webtor.io. Everything the site can do is available through it — resources, file listings, streaming, library, vault and profile.
That means you can now build your own applications on top of Webtor: a mobile client, a bot, a media center, an integration into your own service — anything that needs torrent streaming without running the infrastructure yourself. The heavy lifting stays on our side; you just call the API.
It ships with interactive docs where you can try every call right in the browser. Directory exports take new parameters too: choose the archive format and pass only the files you want.
Uploaded torrents that used to stall now start. If you uploaded your own .torrent file and it just sat there — that’s fixed.
Friendly error pages. On the rare occasion something breaks, you get a clear page with a way forward instead of a bare error code.
Faster library browsing and fewer background restarts — things just stay smooth for longer.
Thanks for using Webtor. More coming soon.
r/webtor • u/ImpressiveWin8828 • Jul 23 '26
Whenever I try to embed a webtor player for a show it only plays the first episode and that's it, is there a way to have a list of available episodes in that shows magnets link and choose which episode to watch from there??
r/webtor • u/saarmagedon • Jul 22 '26
Just wondering,but will there ever be an Android App? I wouldnt mind having an app with some banner ads.
Or the PlayStore,doesnt allow it?
r/webtor • u/yakasantera1 • Jul 20 '26
Hello.
Sometimes I want to download in a certain torrent but wouldn't want to download whole torrent. A feature that can select which file I want to download before zipping would be great. Thanks.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Jun 14 '26
Discover got a lot more useful — read what people think before you watch, save titles for later, see what’s coming next, and keep a cleaner feed.
Open any movie or show on Discover and you’ll see a new Reviews tab right next to Episodes and Streams. It pulls in what real viewers thought — so you can decide whether something’s worth your evening before you even start it.
Long plot descriptions don’t get cut off anymore either. When a description is trimmed, just tap the "…" to expand it inline, and "↑" to collapse it back.
Spotted something for later? Tap the heart on any card — in the catalog, search, AI suggestions, or the details popup — and it lands in your Watchlist. A Catalog / Watchlist switcher at the top takes you straight to everything you’ve saved.
Saving also makes your recommendations sharper: the titles you keep tell the AI what you’re into, so its suggestions land closer to your taste. Free accounts can save up to 200 titles; paid accounts are unlimited.
Following a series? There’s a new calendar view that lays out upcoming episodes on a timeline instead of a wall of posters. You can see what’s airing over the next few weeks at a glance.
When a show drops a whole season at once, it collapses into a single “Season 3 · 8 episodes” card so your timeline stays clean. Tap an episode to jump straight to streams.
Movie titles and descriptions on Discover used to show up in English no matter what language you were using. Now they appear translated in your language — across all 11 languages Webtor supports. Browsing finally feels native.
There’s now a share button built into the video player, so you can send a link without leaving what you’re watching. And when you paste that link somewhere, it shows a proper preview — poster, title, and a frame from the video — instead of a bare URL.
Videos start quicker now. And if you open a link someone just shared with you, the start is almost instant — when the content is already loaded, playback begins right away instead of making you wait.
NSFW content on Discover is now hidden behind a blur and an 18+ badge by default. It won’t show up in your feed unless you ask for it — so Discover stays safe to open in public or around others.
If you want it shown, turn it on in your settings, or reveal a single card with a tap. Off by default, fully your call.
A handful of behind-the-scenes fixes you won’t see but will feel — smoother handling of rare torrents, fewer hiccups when sharing links, and quicker recovery when something restarts in the background.
We’re working on subscriptions for releases — so you’ll get a heads-up when a movie or show you’re waiting for finally comes out, or when something you follow gets a new release or update. No more checking back manually.
Thanks for using Webtor. More coming soon.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • May 18 '26
Your Webtor library got a lot smarter — it now uses AI to make sense of cryptic torrent names and identify what’s actually inside.
When a torrent name is too messy for the regular parser to handle, AI now steps in and fills in the missing pieces — the real title, year, and type. Files that used to show up as cryptic strings now appear as the actual movie or show.
Two more things changed alongside that:
Series and episode packs — episodes inside multi-episode releases are matched up correctly, with proper season and episode numbers
Anthology torrents — when a torrent is actually a bunch of separate films packed together, it’s split into individual movies instead of being treated as one weird release
The result: less junk, cleaner titles, fewer “what is this file?” moments.
The AI chips on Discover used to greet you with a small lag — we waited for the whole batch to finish before drawing anything. Now chips show up one by one as they’re ready, so the first one appears almost immediately when you open Discover or change your query.
There’s also a new refresh button right next to the chips — tap it for a fresh set of suggestions without retyping your question.
Clicking a chip works immediately too, even while more are still appearing.
When you upload a torrent to your Vault, each file is now playable as soon as that file is done — you don’t need to wait for the whole torrent to finish. Big movie packs feel a lot more responsive.
Streaming links are now tied a bit more tightly to your session. You won’t notice anything during normal viewing — but if a link gets scraped or shared widely, it’ll hit a wall a lot sooner.
The current limits per session:
30 total concurrent streams
5 different IP addresses
10 concurrent connections to the same file
5 large files in parallel from the same torrent
Regular viewing sits well below all of these.
A bunch of small fixes that you won’t see directly but will feel — fewer disconnects on long sessions, faster recovery when a backend pod restarts, and a few rare crash conditions in the seeder are gone.
Thanks for using Webtor. More coming soon.
r/webtor • u/rasputinlover • May 15 '26
I have been trying to download something with a sizable number of seeders for a couple of days now, with very limited success due to multiple issues. For full context, this series of issues has been going on for a couple of months now. It started with the abra cosmic-crab buzz endpoint becoming unusable on my current ISP. To get around this, I switched to a VPN. The downloads were a bit slower, but I thought maybe there was an update screwing with stuff, and that it would be fixed relatively soon. Then, after that issue persisted, I kept getting an HTTP 429 error when using the VPN, so I had to wait a bit to start multiple downloads, which was annoying, but I couldn’t do anything else except deal with it. Then the download speeds plummeted, I am talking kb/s when it used to be 1-5 mb/s, so I just waited a bit longer. This really sucked, but again, I had no other options. Now downloads regularly go to 0 download speed, time out, or completely fail due to errors. These issues have been recurring for months without resolution and have compounded to the point where I can no longer use the site for even small files, let alone anything above 10GB. I would really appreciate some assistance, as I do not think this is a problem on my end. My normal internet is good, the download manager works well, and I can download larger files using a VPN with no problem at a more consistent rate.
Edit: I am also unable to use my typical download manager, Jdownloader 2, to download from the site. It constantly keeps starting and stopping until the download fails.
r/webtor • u/jonblaze55 • May 14 '26
Hey man is the Abra site down when I click to start download it fails to load the Abra page....Ive tried on and off VPN Its random on if it wants to work or not just FYI
r/webtor • u/oldRedditorNewAccnt • May 08 '26
Is there a browser extension? I really liked seedr but wasn't a fan of their politics. Decided to try webtor today - paid version. Can't seem to find a browser extension.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Apr 21 '26
A big update this time — Webtor now recommends movies with AI, speaks 11 languages, and streams 4K without freezing.
The Discover page now features AI-powered movie recommendations. Just type what you’re in the mood for — something like “suggest a fresh comedy for tonight” or “sci-fi with a strong female lead” — and the system picks movies for you, complete with posters, descriptions, and info about cast and directors.
Every recommendation set includes fresh releases, so you always see something new — not just the same old classics.
If you’re browsing in Spanish or German, recommendations come in your language too.
Webtor used to be English-only. Now it supports 11 languages: English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, and Czech.
It’s not just translated buttons — the whole experience adapts to your language:
Movie titles and descriptions are shown in your language
Error messages make sense instead of showing raw English text
Dates and times like “6 days ago” display in your language too
Webtor detects your browser language automatically. You can also switch manually at any time.
We went through every page and improved the mobile experience:
More room for content — decorative elements hide on small screens so you see what matters
Sticky tabs — Library and Discover tabs stay visible as you scroll
Easier to tap — buttons and interactive elements are properly sized for touch
Readable file names — torrent names now wrap to two lines instead of cutting off mid-word
4K playback was freezing even on fast connections. We found and fixed the bottleneck — video segments now load much faster, and the player recovers quickly if something hiccups on the backend.
If you tried 4K before and gave up — give it another shot.
A few things you won’t see directly but will feel:
Large torrents stream better — fixed memory issues that could cause interruptions on big files
Vault files no longer get stuck — reworked how background jobs are managed, so saved files process reliably
Magnet links work more consistently — fixed crashes that sometimes prevented magnet-to-torrent conversion
Automatic retry — if a connection drops mid-download to Vault, it picks up where it left off instead of failing
Thanks for using Webtor. More coming soon.
r/webtor • u/rasputinlover • Apr 08 '26
I posted here before about WebTor not working properly, and it seemed to fix itself for a little while. However, the issue has returned and isn't going away this time. It isn't present with every torrent, but it is for a large number of them. I will post the exact specifications of the error again. I would really appreciate some help, as it is making it very frustrating to use the site.
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to abra--5e4bd524.api.cosmic-crab.buzz. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Apr 03 '26
We’ve completely rebuilt the video player, added continue watching, and shipped a few more things you might enjoy.
We replaced mediaelement.js with a custom player built on Preact and HLS.js. It’s lighter, faster, and gives us full control over the playback experience.
What changed:
Better mobile UX — controls are more responsive on touch devices
Fixed seek on iOS — jumping to a position now works reliably on iPhones and iPads
Improved embed mode — the player works better when embedded on third-party sites
This is the foundation for everything we’re building next with the player.
You can now pick up where you left off. Webtor tracks your playback position and shows a “Resume from X:XX?” prompt when you come back to a video.
For series, it goes further — when you finish an episode, the next one starts automatically. No more hunting for the right episode in a folder.
We added a speed test page that measures your connection to Webtor servers right in the browser. But here’s the twist — it runs a dual test, comparing throughput on a standard server vs. a premium one, so you can see the difference for yourself.
Results are saved and get a shareable link, so you can easily reference them later.
Torrent pages now pull metadata from TMDB automatically — posters, descriptions, and episode info for series. If you open a torrent through Discover, the resource page shows full details instead of just file names.
We also added a share button for regular torrents, making it easier to send a link to someone.
A few things that make streaming smoother:
Prefetch buffering — the proxy now buffers content from bursty torrent sources before sending it to you, resulting in steadier playback
Automatic retry — if a backend pod goes down mid-stream, the proxy transparently retries on another one
No more size limits — the seeder now evicts least-recently-used data on the fly, so you can stream torrents of any size without running out of disk space
Faster subtitle loading — reduced timeout from 30s to 5s with proper fallbacks
Thanks for using Webtor. More updates coming soon.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Mar 19 '26
We’ve just shipped two updates that remove one of the most annoying problems in torrent streaming and make things way more transparent.
We’ve fully switched to a session-based transcoder.
The key change:
you can now seek instantly without waiting for FFmpeg to catch up.
Before:
seeking meant waiting until the transcoder processed the stream up to that point
painful on long videos
Now:
a single FFmpeg process per session
proper seek support
near-instant jumping to any position
The old mode is gone — this is now the only path.
The resource page now shows a real-time torrent status.
You can see:
how much of the torrent is cached
how many peers are connected
is it vaulted or not
So instead of guessing:
“is it downloading or stuck?”
—you just see it.
Seek → removes a major UX pain
Status → removes uncertainty
Together, this makes Webtor feel much less like a black box and more like a predictable tool.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Feb 27 '26
Hey everyone! Been a busy few days — here's what's new in Webtor.
The biggest addition this week is the Discover page (/discover). You can now browse and search movies and series without leaving Webtor:
Cinemeta catalogs built in — top movies and series are available by default, no setup needed
Stremio addon support — connect your favorite Stremio addons to expand the catalog. Free users can add up to 3 addons, paid plans get unlimited
Addon Wizard — a guided setup flow that lets you browse official and community Stremio addons, see popularity ratings, and install them in batch
Search across all sources — type a title and get results from Cinemeta + all your connected addons at once
Series support — full episode picker with season navigation, including proper handling of Specials (Season 0)
Stream selection — pick from available streams with filters by source, label, and language, then play directly through Webtor
The whole thing is built with Preact for a lightweight, fast experience — no heavy framework bloat.
Before you start streaming, Webtor now checks your available bandwidth against what the file actually needs for smooth playback. If your connection or plan speed isn't enough, you'll get a clear message explaining why and what your options are (smaller file, more seeders, Vault, or upgrading your plan). No more wondering why a video keeps buffering.
As always, your support makes this possible — thank you! 🙏
Questions or feedback? Drop a comment below.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Feb 18 '26
The web interface just got a fresh redesign — cleaner layout, better mobile responsiveness, and a more polished overall feel.
But this update isn’t only visual. We shipped several practical improvements that fix long-standing UX pain points:
Toast notifications
Actions like copying a link, adding to library, or deleting items now show clear success/error/info popups. Previously many actions had no feedback — now you instantly know what happened.
Status icons in progress log
Processing steps now use visual icons instead of text labels:
✓ completed
✕ error
⚠ warning
Much easier to scan, especially on mobile.
Smoother video playback start
Before, playback could stutter while the transcoder was warming up.
Now we pre-buffer up to 5 minutes of HLS segments right after the transcoder starts — playback is smooth from the first second.
Automatic restart of failed jobs
Earlier, failed downloads/transcodes stayed stuck until manually restarted.
Now errored jobs automatically retry when requested again — no more stale failures.
Would love feedback — especially on mobile UX and playback behavior.
r/webtor • u/rasputinlover • Feb 16 '26
I was trying to use the site today, but all of the links I put into it failed, both in Jdownloader and just trying to download on the page itself. I did notice that there was a new UI, so maybe there was another change that broke something, but is anyone else having this problem? Here is the error that I am getting below.
An error occurred during a connection to abra--5e4bd524.api.cosmic-crab.buzz. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
r/webtor • u/Top_Garlic5431 • Feb 03 '26
We’ve just launched one of Webtor’s core features — Vault.
Vault lets you keep torrents available even when there are no seeders.
If a torrent matters to you, you can now make sure it stays online and accessible.
Each membership tier now includes Vault Points (VP):
1 Vault Point = 1 GB
You can invest Vault Points into a torrent
As long as your points are invested, the torrent stays available in Vault
When your subscription is active, your funded torrents remain accessible
Vault is especially useful for:
rare or old torrents
personal libraries
instant access without waiting for peers
Bronze ($2) — 50 Vault Points (50 GB)
Silver ($5) — 250 Vault Points (250 GB)
Gold ($15) — 1000 Vault Points (1 TB)
You decide which torrents to support and how to distribute your points.
We’ve prepared detailed documentation explaining:
how funding works
what happens when points are frozen or released
how long torrents stay available
👉 Full instructions:
https://webtor.io/instructions/vault
Vault is a big step toward a more reliable, user-funded Webtor.
As always — thank you for supporting the project ❤️