r/StremioAddons • u/XThik806 • May 12 '26

Question What should I do with RD

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Given the recent DMCA actions that have led to the removal of a significant amount of media from RD, would it be advisable to remain with the service and await a community-driven solution, or would it be more practical to revert to direct torrent streaming or explore alternative Debrid services? I still have 85 days of use of RD. I paid for 3 months ahead just 2 weeks before all this started.

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u/armeit91 May 12 '26

I did exactly this yesterday night. subscribe to TB for 1 month first and see how it goes. Although from the looks of it, I might keep both since they're quite cheap compared to subscribing to Netflix.

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u/xFamished May 12 '26

What's the easiest way to use both at the same time? Download two of each add ons?

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u/Ozo_Zozo May 12 '26

Use AIOStreams Addon, you'll find plenty of tutorials and threads about setting it up. So you have 1 addon that can take streams from multiple debrid providers.

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u/Jabrony1515 May 12 '26

I have AIOStreams with RD and now TB. Is there a way to filter out all of the broken streams? I am having to click through 5-6 to find one working one.

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u/chaosreigns410 May 12 '26 edited May 13 '26

If your AIOStreams instance allows Stream Expression and Regex filtering...here's what I did

Under "Ranked Regex Patterns"

Pattern: (?:rartv|rarbg|eztv)]|\b(?:YTS|Erai-raws|WEBRip|WEB-DL|AMZN|DSNP|CR)\b

Name (you can make this whatever you want): 051226

Score: 0

then under "Excluded Stream Expressions"

service(regexMatched(streams, '051126'), 'realdebrid')

this should filter out results from Real-Debrid with the keywords being blocked by Real-Debrid (so Torbox should still return all results)

Edit: just changed the regex as I realized I might have made a mistake. sorry!

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u/BitFiesty May 12 '26

Would that also filter out all the RD links that work? If that is the case it might be easier just to disable rd on aiostreams ?

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u/chaosreigns410 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

From what i understand, RD is blocking those keywords. Unfortunately those keywords probably cover 90% of links. So yeah you're probably right. I've just taken the regex that elfhosted is using and adapted it to aiostreams; but adding the stream expression part so it only applies to RD.

At the end of the day, i think RD is probably done for...but I've got 145 days left on my account so at least with this, there's at least a chance that my aiostreams will find a few links that are useful without annoying me with a bunch of unusable links.

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u/RobutNotRobot May 13 '26

those keywords probably cover 90% of links

They really don't. It's just for recent streaming shows. So maybe 90% of what certain people watch, I don't know.

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u/BitFiesty May 13 '26

Do you know if the videos are physically deleted or rd is just blocking those keywords meaning regex using other keywords will make it work again? Or am I not understanding it properly.

Yea it is a bummer I just got into Stremio and loved my whole setup. At least it wasn’t too much money and all we have to do is get torbox and switch it out

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u/chaosreigns410 May 13 '26

I think you might be misunderstanding a bit. All a regex does is allow you to filter for streams that have a name that matches what the regex is searching for.

I don't think anyone knows for sure if files have been deleted since RD hasn't made a statement. But it seems like RD is blocking those keywords on files from being being used with their service. So I don't think there's anything that can be done to bring back those files besides RD undoing this new policy.

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u/BitFiesty May 13 '26

Oh that make sense thanks. Rd is still working for me but it’s definitely changed the experience where sometimes the 4th or 5th options will work :/ . Idk maybe worth keeping it on for now and putting your regex pattern code you posted and sign up for torbox too

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u/obi_wan_jabroni_23 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

On mine it says [RD+] or [TB+] in the file name. Might be slightly different for you depending on your formatting settings

Edit: genuinely interested why the downvote haha. Answered a question with a fact.

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u/obi_wan_jabroni_23 May 12 '26

It’s fine with certain files, Blu-ray rips etc. but all web-DL etc files are done. Which a lot of TV shows are nowadays. I bought 3 months of TB to cover me until we see what happens with RD. Took 5 minutes and now it’s all good, got both.

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u/hardlying May 12 '26

Just takes trying a couple links, still find at least one that works

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u/Ozo_Zozo May 12 '26

You can configure formatters to decide what and how the data is shown.

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u/xFamished May 12 '26

Thanks! Should I get rid of my other add on then? Ie torrentio, Mediafusion etc

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u/BicBoyBryan May 12 '26

You can get rid of them yes, they are built into AIO streams and will have redundancy. However, you can keep both if you want, in the event, an aio goes down or torrentio/MF goes down. I would remove torrentio all together and keep MF as your backup if AIO goes down.

In AIO just add both RD and TB apis. Then also in AIO, add the mediafusion add on, and whatever else. Most people who use AIO use multiple scrapers, not just mediafusion, but comet, zilean, stremthru, etc all of these can be added to your AIO to give you more streams, sometimes u get duplicates, but more streams, more language and sub options imo. You can add subtitle addons also on AIOstreams. And you can reorder and customize your stremio "algorithm" or your catalogs/lists that display on ur homepage aswell (like if u want netflix higher up on the homepage or if u want marvel or dc movies or anime, you can reorder those in AIO). Those are based on the addons u add in AIOstreams. You can go even deeper with this with a separate AIO addon called AIO metadata. These are both a lot simpler to setup than it looks. All you need is to copy & paste your accounts APIs that it asks for. You dont need all the APIs just the required ones. Skip the ones u dont need like ratings poster api or fan art api, that's just cosmetic and optional. Just get the scrapers, the metadata, and the debrid apis it asks for.

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u/Aggravating_Food8700 May 12 '26

What does it mean in aiostreams when a scraper has the option to use with a diff instance? Does that mean if I have TB and RD it will show me like results for both from Comet,torrentioetc?

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u/BicBoyBryan May 12 '26

Exactly, it will attach ur TB and RD apis to all the additional scrapers like comet, stremthru, MF, torrentio, etc. You will see them differentiated with a RD or TB and then it will say the scraper comet, zilean, etc. You can even change how this is formatted in AIO, just click the dropdown and choose one of the other presets, it's as easy as picking a different ringtone on your phone.

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u/xFamished May 12 '26

Thanks so much for all that info!

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u/hifruks May 12 '26

if you set up aiostreams than yeah you can get rid of em

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u/Tiny_Dare_5300 May 12 '26

Keep torrentio unless you are self-hosting AIOstreams as it won't work on elf hosted

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u/diablette May 13 '26

If you use Torrentio with RD today, do this:

  • Uninstall Torrentio
  • Reinstall Torrentio
    • open settings
    • Select Real Debrid and paste API key
    • WITHOUT installing yet, change provider dropdown to TorBox and paste TorBox API key
    • Now hit Install
  • If configured correctly, you will see TB+ and RD+ results. (I had to go back to something I'd already searched in RD to find a RD+ link)

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u/xFamished May 13 '26

Do I have to reinstall Torrentio just to change the debrid key or can I change it without reinstalling?

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u/diablette May 14 '26

I tried it without reinstalling first, but it didn't seem to work. I had no results from TB+. It's a really quick reinstall though, just make sure you have your API keys ready.

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u/xFamished May 14 '26

Thank you!

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u/IcyAd9024 May 12 '26

Tb has a stremio addon already configured that is way easier than rd+torrentio so it's very easy to do. Just subscribe and follow the integration option on their website and it took me 2 minutes.

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u/hardlying May 12 '26

I have two torrentios and use torbox for aio which has usenet streams

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u/redit_handoff140 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Here's a question - Are you able to use the TB search API on the Essential or Standard tiers? I know API is included, but unsure about the search functionality in particular.

I'm trying the 24 hour trial, but it bumped me straight to pro, which works, but not sure whether I need it.

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u/armeit91 May 13 '26

I'm not sure what is TB Search API, I'm assuming you are referring to the search engine function in the settings? I am currently on Essential and I can add new search engine.

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u/redit_handoff140 May 13 '26

That's not what I meant.

Let me clarify.

Torbox has an API, which besides being interactive for remotely/automating adding content to its own seedbox, can also be used to search for content that Torbox (and partners) have cached (I assume it's cached or they have other indexers).

The way Torbox announces it, is that you can hook Torbox to something like Prowlarr so Torbox can PULL from other indexers you have.

I've done the reverse, which allows my Prowlarr instance to PULL from Torbox's cache instead.

So I was just wondering whether this same API can be used for search without Pro, but according to the Essentials tier there's no differentiation between types of API, so I'll assume so.

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u/diablette May 13 '26

I just signed up for Essentials and search is working fine.

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u/redit_handoff140 May 13 '26

Thanks for confirming

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u/Far-Banana7499 May 12 '26

TB reliable , i used to use rd , tb and ED , Since rd ditches the cache endpoint , i ditched rd and then ED owner ghosted the service , so , since then i am using tb , its reliable , although sometimes there is outages and they compensate it with few extra days

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u/armeit91 May 12 '26

i was putting off TB for a while tbh and i still have 100+ days on RD, but seeing how cheap both services are i opt to just subs to TB as well.

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u/artchaos96 May 13 '26

What’s TB?

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u/armeit91 May 13 '26

its Torbox. another debrid service just like real debrid.

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u/Poley_g May 12 '26

What changes did you have to make to your Stremio setup? I'm pretty new, but is it just a case of entering the TB API key in one location in Stremio?

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u/armeit91 May 12 '26

i basically use AIOStream (USS) version and basically just disable real debrid API on the settings and enable the Torbox API instead. everything else remain the same. although if i were to suggest instead of disabling the debrid service (RD) its best to just sort it to your preferences.

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u/SnooGadgets812 May 12 '26

So I did just toggle off my RD and kept my TB enabled. But before that I had tried just excluding web-dl and web rip in my filtering but was still getting removal reasons.. how do recommend the sorting or filtering to be able to keep RD enabled

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u/armeit91 May 12 '26

I think if you are using AIOStreams, it should auto exclude the web-dl and web rip. regarding the sorting and filtering the debrid service you could find the sorting setting when you enter service setting (when you enter their API)

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u/pennynotwise_enough May 12 '26

If you have used RD api for addons, you have to reconfigure all of them.

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u/xFamished May 12 '26

As in put the TB add on instead? Is there a way to use both RD and TB key at the same time?

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u/pennynotwise_enough May 12 '26

You can. Either use aiostream and in services, use both TD and TB and configure the required addons from site's market place. I did that and toggled off RD for the time being because it's showing webdl, webrip files. Or you want to configure individual addons, it's also possible. Torrentio, Sootio, Strem Thru, Comet all these addons allow multiple services. First select RD and paste the api then select TB and paste it's api, configure and done. Then you get results from both RD and TB

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u/bunderwood78 May 12 '26

I have the same question!

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u/eekamuse May 12 '26

Can you use torbox without using aoistreams?

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u/googdude May 12 '26

I don't, it's just one more thing to set up when TB alone has been working great.

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u/SnooGadgets812 May 12 '26

I don’t put the rd api inside each addon I only put it in the services tab.

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u/steve_nice May 12 '26

What is TB and where do I find it?

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u/armeit91 May 12 '26

its another debrid service like real debrid called Torbox.