Is Torrentio down?

Q: Is Torrentio down?

Check it yourself in about a minute. Open the addon's manifest URL in a browser: if it returns a page of text, the addon is running and the problem is elsewhere. If it times out or errors, the addon itself is unavailable and nothing you change in Stremio will help. Public addons are run by volunteers and go quiet from time to time, usually briefly.

Q: Why does Torrentio suddenly return no results?

The common causes are the addon being briefly unavailable, a rate limit reached because a public instance is shared by everybody using it, a debrid service key that has expired or hit its own limit, or filters in the addon configuration being narrower than you remember. Testing a second addon on the same title tells you quickly whether the problem is one addon or your whole setup.

Q: How do I tell if the problem is Torrentio or my setup?

Install a second addon and search for the same title. If both return nothing, the problem is your side: your Stremio, your network, or the debrid account they share. If the second one returns results and the first does not, the first addon is the problem and there is nothing to fix at your end.

Searches that returned plenty yesterday come back empty today, and nothing in Stremio says why. Usually this is the addon, not anything you have done.

Here is how to tell in about a minute.

Check it in a minute

There is no official status page to check, so the addon itself is the thing to ask.

Open the addon's manifest URL in a browser. Every Stremio addon has one, and it is the address you installed it from, ending in manifest.json. If it returns a page of text, the addon is running. If it times out or errors, the addon is unavailable and nothing you change in Stremio will bring results back.

Search the same title with a second addon. If both come back empty, the problem is on your side. If the second one finds things, the first is the problem.

Those two checks separate almost every case, and they take longer to read about than to do.

Why public addons go quiet

A public addon is one service answering everybody who installed it. That shapes most of what goes wrong with them.

It is shared. Rate limits are usually counted per address, and the busier a public instance gets, the sooner a limit is reached for everybody behind it. You can make your first search of the day and find the allowance already spent.

It is somebody's side project. Public instances are run by volunteers at their own cost. They restart, run out of capacity, and occasionally stop.

Its upstreams have limits too. An addon asks other services for its answers, and if one of those is slow or limiting, the addon returns less without explaining why.

None of that is a fault in your setup, and none of it is fixable from Stremio.

When it is your side

Worth ruling out before concluding the addon is broken.

Your debrid key. If it has expired, or the account has hit its own limit, results thin out or vanish. Check the account on its own site, not through the addon.

Your filters. Resolution and language filters cut hard when combined, and a configuration you set months ago is easy to misremember.

A stale install. If you reconfigured an addon but never reinstalled it in Stremio, Stremio is still using the old settings. Reinstalling from the current configure page fixes it.

If this keeps happening

Occasional outages are normal for anything free and shared. If it is frequent enough to be annoying, the thing to change is not which public addon you use but whether you are on a shared one at all.

An addon can run three ways, and they differ in how reliable they are rather than what they do:

A free public instance. Immediate, costs nothing, shared with everybody, so its limits and its downtime are shared too.
One you run yourself. No sharing, and you keep it updated and online.
One run for you. The same isolation without the maintenance.

Our recommended addons guide compares the addons themselves and is the better page if what you actually want is a different one.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Torrentio down?

Open its manifest URL in a browser. Text means it is running; a timeout or error means it is not, and the problem is not at your end.

Why does it return no results all of a sudden?

Most often a brief outage, a rate limit on a shared instance, an expired debrid key, or filters narrower than you remember.

How do I tell whether it is the addon or me?

Search the same title with a second addon. Both empty means your side. One working means the other addon is the problem.

Is Torrentio safe to use?

We do not operate it and cannot speak for it. The general point holds for any public instance: somebody else runs it, and it sees what you send it, including any key you configure. Be deliberate about which ones you hand keys to.

Does a VPN help?

Not with an addon being down. It changes your address, which occasionally matters for a rate limit, but it does nothing about a service that is not answering.

Is there a Torrentio status page?

No official Torrentio status page exists. The manifest check above is the reliable test, since it asks the addon directly instead of trusting somebody else's monitoring.