DDLBase
- Free allowance
- No account to read the index or the feed: /rss returned 300 items.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateno published limit; 10 sequential /rss requests about 1.2 s apart and 8 concurrent requests all returned 200, and robots.txt is Allow: / for every agent
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-30checked 2026-10-30 (live); stale on 2026-11-30
| Free tier | No account to read the index or the feed: /rss returned 300 items. A post page shows two mirror slots anonymously and prints '(login for more mirrors)'. unit unlimited; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 0 |
| Limits |
Anonymous posts show 'Mirror 1: Link 1' and 'Mirror 2: Link 2' then '(login for more mirrors)'. The wider mirror set sits behind an account. |
| Binding | request-rate As with any index, the only thing that can throttle a user is page rate; the wider mirror set is an identity gate recorded in identity_cost rather than one of the seven constraints. |
| Identity | email A login is what unlocks mirrors beyond the first two. The registration form was not opened, so whether it asks for email alone or email plus captcha was not established. |
| Egress | No byte allowance: HTML and XML only. Each post's mirrors point at external hosts; the href behind 'Link 1' did not appear in the extracted page, so the host behind it is unverified. free allowance: none published |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: an index, not storage |
| Retention | Posts persist. The feed carries the 300 most recent items. |
| Interface | rest RSS 2.0 at /rss (content-type application/rss+xml, 300 items, self-link /rss.php), sitemap at /sitemap.xml. /feed/ returns 404. No JSON API found. endpoint: https://ddlbase.com/rss |
| Tooling | RSS reader. The item title carries release name and size ('Gebo.And.The.Shadow... - 23.7 GB'), so size filtering needs no post fetch. |
| Composes with | Poll /rss, filter on size from the item title, then open the post for the two anonymous mirrors or log in for the rest. |
| Reliability | Cloudflare plus LiteSpeed. /feed/ 404s while /rss works, so a client that guesses the conventional WordPress path gets nothing. |
| Notes | The deepest free feed measured at 300 items, and the only one that puts the size in the item title. The caveat is the mirror cap: two anonymous links per post. ddlbase.net answers as a separate XenForo forum and is not the same index. |
| Evidence note | documented Feed, post, robots.txt and both mirror slots were read on 2026-10-23. Registering and capturing the full mirror set would raise it to measured. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | ddlbase.com/rss | content-type application/rss+xml, 300 items, titles that carry the size, self-link https://ddlbase.com/rss.php |
| 2026-10-23 | ddlbase.com/post/45631/gebo-and-the-shadow-2012-bluray-1080p | 'Mirror 1: Link 1', 'Mirror 2: Link 2', '(login for more mirrors)', MediaInfo block and 23.67 GiB filesize |
| 2026-10-23 | ddlbase.com/robots.txt | not published |
| 2026-10-30 | ddlbase.com/robots.txt | robots.txt allows every crawler on every path ('Allow: /') and names the sitemap https://ddlbase.com/sitemap.xml |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: https://ddlbase.com/robots.txt | a GET of https://ddlbase.com/robots.txt answered HTTP 200 with 128 bytes of text/plain on 2026-10-30 |
More fields 4
| feed items | 300 |
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| feed protocol | rss2 |
| account for links | yes |
| anonymous mirrors | 2 |