You know that feeling when you think you've built the perfect setup?

Yeah... me too.

I pointed rclone at TorBox, kicked off a library scan, leaned back, and immediately got buried under an avalanche of:

429 - API Rate Limit Reached

Apparently my media server interpreted "scan the library" as "launch a distributed denial-of-service attack against TorBox."

My logs looked less like a media server and more like the Matrix.

The "Solutions"

Like any self-respecting nerd, I spent the next hour trying increasingly questionable ideas.

First up:

--tpslimit=1

Did it reduce the rate limits?

Technically... yes.

Did it also slow everything else to the pace of a sleepy sloth uploading over dial-up?

Also yes.

Then I tried a few other proxy tools.

Some were buggy.

Some randomly broke.

One somehow managed to make the rate limiting even worse, which is honestly an achievement.

Enter Warpbox

Then mainlink0435 showed up and built Warpbox—a WebDAV proxy for TorBox.

Instead of letting every application enthusiastically spam the TorBox API, Warpbox sits in the middle and speaks boring, sensible WebDAV.

Your apps (PLEX) stay happy.

TorBox stays happy.

Your logs stop looking like they're screaming for help.

The Best Part

The highest compliment I can give software is this:

I forgot it was running.

I've been using Warpbox for a few hours now, and that's exactly what's happened.

Library scans complete.

Things play.

No endless stream of 429 errors.

No weird hacks.

No sacrificing the rest of my setup just because one scanner got a little too excited.

Should You Use It?

If you've connected rclone to TorBox and your logs have become an endless parade of API rate limit messages, Warpbox is worth checking out.

It's simple.

It does one job.

And, most importantly, it keeps your media server from acting like it just discovered caffeine.

Huge thanks to mainlink0435 for putting it together. Sometimes the best software isn't the one with a hundred features—it's the one that quietly fixes the problem that was driving everyone insane.