What are Nzb files and how to find them for free?

[rocky777]

Everyone who ever got in touch with Usenet heard the term “NZB file”. NZB is a XML-based text file containing meta data about articles posted to Usenet. This format was developed by Usenet indexing service Newzbin.com. NZBs contain information such as post date, poster, subject title, etc. These files do not contain anything other than human-readable text, but can be read by clients to find and download binary files from Usenet. The main idea of it was to avoid of downloading of headers all the time that should make downlaoding from Usenet much quicker.

While file will be posted to Usenet newsgroups it will be divided into several posts. The information about binary segments (that will be identified by Message ID) will be also saved in NZB. Usenet clients load NZB file and can identify all parts of the post to download them and put together into one file after.

NZB file looks like:

There are different services that allows to search for Nzb files without any costs:
https://www.binsearch.info/
http://nzbfriends.com/
http://findnzb.net/

 

[Low Roller]

Here's a few more.

http://nzbgrabit.co.uk/ - Probably the quickest updated NZB site around. Free accounts can only download the last 25 days worth of NZB's, fine for getting latest material. All user supported NZB postings, no API.

www.usenet-crawler.com - NABnzb based. Auto index, API.

www.nzb-matrix.eu - NABnzb based. Auto index, API.

 

[Parja]

Thou shalt not violate the first rule of Usenet.

 

[smithkt]

Finding the correct nzbs is only half the battle. Finding a usenet server that actually still has the files available for the item you are attempting to download is the other, and quite frankly the more difficult of the two.

 

[InternationalHat]

Thou shalt not violate the first rule of Usenet.

Yeah... can we report this?

This thread shouldn't exist for multiple reasons

 

[TheResidentEvil]

Finding the correct nzbs is only half the battle. Finding a usenet server that actually still has the files available for the item you are attempting to download is the other, and quite frankly the more difficult of the two.

this is so true. i did usenet for years and i have moved on. Usenet is dying

 

[Stoly]

Usenet is live and kicking

 

[coolcash]

"Free" Usenet offered by ISP's has died.

 

[Ruoh]

"Free" Usenet offered by ISP's has died.

My ISP is still running a pretty full featured one. They are very, very DMCA compliant though, if you get my meaning.

Also, NZB files a very "new" school. Sheesh, you kids.

 

[W.Feather]

My ISP has a "newsgroup" as well... nto very DMCA compliant either, finding quite a few things still

 

[CommanderFrank]

Not even close to a Hot Deal.