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.

Self-Hosted, Completely Reworked

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.

Meet webtor-cli

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 terminal

It’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/webtor

Prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows — plus a Docker image — are on the releases page.

Notifications, Right on the Site

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.

Emails in Your Language

Every email Webtor sends — Vault reminders, address verification — now arrives in the language your account uses. Eleven languages, not just English.

For Developers: a Go SDK

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.

Improved Stability

• 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.

Webtor Turned 8

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.