Opened, played and measured — before you download it.
A torrent’s name is typed by whoever uploaded it. Verifile opens the file itself: it reads the real resolution, codec, bit depth and HDR, lists every audio track and subtitle, and decodes frames from across the runtime. Torrents that turn out to be programs, samples or a lower resolution than promised get a warning instead.
- File
- 1.70 GB · Matroska · 23 min 50 s
- Video
- 1920×1080 · H.264 High · 8-bit · SDR · 23.976 fps · 9.9 Mb/s
- Audio
- Japanese AAC 2.0
- Subtitles
- 12 languages · English, Arabic, German, Spanish (Latin American and European), French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Thai, Chinese (Traditional)
- Name said
- 1080p, H.264, AAC2.0, “Multi-Subs” — all true
A real check. In green: what the name left out — the audio is Japanese, and “Multi-Subs” means 12 languages. These details and frames are on the torrent page.
Counting…
From magnet to VERIFILED
The same steps the button on a torrent page shows while you watch — usually under two minutes.
QUEUEDThe file list is read first. An .exe dressed as an episode, or a sample posted as the film, is flagged here without downloading anything.
READING…We join the swarm and fetch only the pieces we need — about 50 MB for a typical film, never the whole thing, and nothing is kept.
VERIFILEING… 2/4Every stream is read and frames from across the runtime must decode. HDR is tone-mapped so the frames look right.
✔ VERIFILEDThe torrent page gets the real media details and the frames, and the mark appears wherever the torrent is listed.
Freshly verifiled
The latest checks: what the name claimed next to what the file holds.
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Caught out
Torrents that were not what they said. They keep a ⚠ mark and are left out of Stremio, Torznab and RSS alerts.
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Inside the catalog
What the verifiled files really contain, and where their names were wrong.
Found in the files
Where names were wrong
Reading the marks
What you will see next to torrents in lists and on their pages.
Opened and checked; details and frames are on its page.
Not what the name says: a program, a sample, a fake resolution, no video.
archives (RAR), disc images, photo sets, music.
Nobody was sharing it when we looked. Press Check this torrent on its page to try again.
Good to know
How much does a check download?
Only the pieces needed to read the headers and decode a few frames: usually 20–100 MB, whatever the size of the torrent. The pieces are deleted when the check ends.
Why are RAR releases “can’t check”?
The video is inside the archive, and reading it would mean downloading and unpacking all of it. Packed releases are not marked as bad — we just cannot look inside.
What does “No peers” mean?
Nobody was sharing the torrent when we tried, so there was nothing to read. It is not a failure, and it is not retried on its own: anyone can start a new check from the torrent page.
Is the .torrent file I pick uploaded?
No. Your browser works out its info hash and sends only that 40-character hash.
How many checks can I start?
10 a day per visitor, 50 when signed in. Asking about a torrent that is already checked, or being checked, is free.
For developers
GET /api/v1/verifile/{infoHash}/ returns a torrent’s state and result, GET /api/v1/verifile/{infoHash}/events streams a check live, and POST /api/v1/verifile/ with {"infoHash": "…"} starts one. Results in search, title, Stremio and Torznab carry a verifile field. See the developer guide and the API reference.