In May 2026 Real-Debrid started filtering "infringing" content out of its cache, turning a chunk of every long-time user's library into broken 💀, dead, virus-flagged 🦠, and error-state ⚠️ torrents — overnight, without warning, and without surfacing the damage in their official UI.
LitterBox is the cleanup tool. Sign in via Real-Debrid OAuth (no API key entry, no server-side storage), it tallies the casualties, rates the rot, and offers a one-click bulk-scoop.
🔬 What we detect (no sign-in required)
LitterBox's fast pass flags torrents whose filenames match release-naming patterns ElfHosted has documented as correlated with the May 2026 filter. Built from community-reported reports; refined per release.
Bracket-tagged groups
[rartv] [rarbg] [eztv]Scene release names
YTS Erai-raws CRSource markers
WEB-DL WEBDL WEB-Rip WEBRip AMZN DSNP
The fast pass catches the bulk of the May 2026 class instantly.
A second deep probe (opt-in) hits /unrestrict/link
per-torrent to surface the long tail the regex misses.
Verify the source.
📰 What happened
- rd-rug-pull.netlify.app — the community-maintained timeline of what changed, when, and why.
- r/debridmediamanager: "RealDebrid's infringing-file errors are…" — first-hand reports from users finding their libraries half-broken.
- r/StremioAddons: ElfHosted's band-aid fix — the server-side mitigation we shipped for Stremio users so search keeps finding cached releases despite the new filter.
We've been knee-deep in this since day one. LitterBox is the client-side half of the response: a way for anyone, ElfHosted customer or not, to see how bad their library got hit and clean up.
🔐 How it works (and why you can trust it)
- Click sign in. Real-Debrid shows you a 5-character code + a verify URL.
- Paste the code on Real-Debrid's site. The browser polls until you confirm.
- Your token lives only in your browser's localStorage —
never touches our server beyond a stateless proxy that forwards your
request to
api.real-debrid.com. No cookies, no sessions, no logging.
Open source — read the proxy code at github.com/elfhosted/litterbox.
🪦 The bigger picture (for Plex / Jellyfin / Emby users)
Stremio users are mostly fine — Stremio queries debrids on-demand, so a filtered release just means hitting a different one next click.
Personal-library users (Plex / Jellyfin / Emby) are hit hardest. Your stack curates — Sonarr / Radarr grab a release once and expect it to be there next month. RD's filter turns those long-tail catalog items into broken symlinks, and there's no good way to know which ones rotted without auditing the whole library (which is exactly what LitterBox does).
Cleanup is the short-term fix. If your library scores high on the stink-meter, the structural answer is to migrate from Real-Debrid to TorBox — and our CatBox bundles do exactly that, with your existing library transitioned across rather than binned. ElfHosted's TorBox-backed CatBox personal media stacks are API and policy compliant, fully endorsed by TorBox, and keep the same Sonarr / Radarr workflow you already use. LitterBox cleans up what's already broken; CatBox is the path off Real-Debrid without losing what still works.