Stremio Addon — Disabled Indefinitely

June 7, 2026

What happened?

The hosted Anime Filler Checker Stremio addon is disabled indefinitely. If you have it installed, every stream request now returns a single "🚧 ADDON DISABLED" item instead of filler badges.

The Chrome and Firefox browser extensions are not affected and continue to work normally on every streaming site they already supported.

Why?

Within a short period the addon received over 5 million edge requests on Vercel — far more than the free plan allows. The deployment was throttled and every project on that account got taken down with it.

Most of that traffic came from Stremio clients automatically polling for every series the user opened, including thousands of non-anime titles (Game of Thrones, Invincible, The Boys, and so on) that will never be in the AnimeFillerList database. Caching, negative caching, and CDN headers were not enough to keep the bill survivable for a free, ad-free, one-person project.

Until there's a sustainable hosting setup, the public addon URL stays offline. I'd rather pull the plug honestly than silently let it eat money or degrade into a broken experience.

You can still run it yourself

The entire addon is open source and runs locally with two commands. If you're the only user, you'll basically never hit a rate limit and it's effectively free forever.

Option 1 — Run it on your own machine

Requires Node.js 18+ and git.

git clone https://github.com/nehirakbass/anime-filler-checker.git
cd anime-filler-checker/stremio-addon
npm install
npm start

The server starts on port 7000. In Stremio:

• Open Settings → Addons
• Paste http://127.0.0.1:7000/manifest.json into the search/install field
• Click Install

The addon only works while the terminal is open. Close it and the badges disappear until you run npm start again. On Windows you can drop a shortcut to a one-line .bat file in your Startup folder so it launches with your PC.

Option 2 — Deploy your own free Vercel instance

If you want it to "just work" without keeping a terminal open, you can host your personal copy on Vercel's free tier. Since only you (and maybe a few friends) hit it, you won't come anywhere near the limits that took down the public deployment.

• Fork the repo: github.com/nehirakbass/anime-filler-checker
• Go to vercel.com/new and import your fork
• Set Root Directory to stremio-addon
• Click Deploy — no build command, no environment variables needed
• In stremio-addon/lib/addon.js, set MAINTENANCE_MODE = false in your fork before deploying so your instance actually serves filler data
• Install in Stremio using https://your-project.vercel.app/manifest.json

What about the public addon coming back?

No promises and no ETA. It will only come back if I find a hosting setup that can handle public traffic without making me personally fund it. Until then, self-hosting is the supported path — and honestly, it's better that way: your own instance, your own cache, no shared rate limits.

Browser extension is unaffected

If you only used the Chrome/Firefox extension, nothing changes. The extension fetches filler data directly from your browser and never touched the Stremio infrastructure.

— Nehir

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