Torrentio and most addons no longer seem to work in China without VPN

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Seems that since last/this week, most addons no longer seem to work properly when using Stremio within China without having a VPN turned on.

Does anyone have any potential insights into this? I am also looking at maybe a self hosted torrent scraper if anyone has any resources to share please do so. Thanks!

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Does anyone have any potential insights into this?

Well its probably now blocked by the government. I wouldn’t be very surprised.

If you are using clash/shadowrocket like vast majority of people there, you can add this to your rules

  • DOMAIN-KEYWORD,debrid,DIRECT

Then turn off auto update from provider. For shadowrocket, can use a module that works on top of base ruleset.

If you happen to use clash nyanpasu, can add a chaining script

prepend__rules:

  • DOMAIN-KEYWORD,debrid,DIRECT

This will allow you to bypass the vpn for debrid services, but use the vpn for stremio and addons.

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You’re in China…that explains it!

Use the vpn

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It seems hit and miss with me. Sometimes I can use it without the VPN. mostly I seem to have to use my vpn when using stremio but can then turn it off once the links are loaded. Sometimes it’s faster with the VPN sometimes without.

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I think I might have found a solution. Since Torrentio no longer works for me, neither with no VPN nor with my Clash setup, I found a service called Stremthru, which runs Torrentio through a US server first, bypassing the block. You can find a guide on how to set it up here. For me the performance is best if you choose a proxy located in the US.

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I am having the exact same experience, thanks for sharing!

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Thanks for sharing, I hope it might help other people who search and find this thread. I personally got a vpn router and just connected my tvs to it and has been working flawless.

Will try your suggestion too! Thanks again

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I wasnt able to get this working. It gets a bit further in that it shows the torrents in the list. However, trying to play them just gets stuck.