Nyaa
- Free allowance
- No account: the search feed at /?page=rss&q=... returned RSS 2.0 with a nyaa namespace and per-item torrent links.
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-ratenone published on the pages fetched; the feed answered immediately with no 429
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | No account: the search feed at /?page=rss&q=... returned RSS 2.0 with a nyaa namespace and per-item torrent links. unit requests; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 0 |
| Limits |
The feed is the whole interface: no key, no token, no pagination wall on the routes tried. |
| Binding | request-rate No byte accounting exists on an index; polling a saved search is a handful of requests a day, far below anything that would throttle. |
| Identity | anonymous No account for search or RSS; uploading and commenting need one, which a user does not need. |
| Egress | no byte allowance: the feed serves XML and .torrent links; the transfer is client-to-swarm free allowance: none published |
| Per-object cap | the tracker caps a single torrent file and the site caps uploads, neither of which is a client-side limit on the index |
| Retention | releases persist; the feed returns only the query's matches, so age is not implied by the feed |
| Interface | rest RSS at /?page=rss with the usual query parameters (q, c, f); each item's <link> is a .torrent download and <guid> is the view page. |
| Tooling | Any RSS reader; the item link is already the .torrent, so no page fetch is needed. |
| Composes with | A saved search as an RSS feed is the cheapest possible subscription: the client polls one URL per interest and gets .torrent links, which a debrid service then turns into cached playback. |
| Reliability | A query with no match returns a valid feed with zero items rather than an error, so a client must check item count rather than status. The one match for 'ubuntu' was dated 2009, so the index holds very old items and a fresh-looking feed says nothing about freshness. |
| Notes | The narrowest and most reliable feed: a saved search is a URL, and the URL returns .torrent files. Useless outside anime and East Asian media, which is why it is a second feed rather than the primary one. |
| Evidence note | documented The feed was fetched on 2026-10-23 and parsed: one item for 'ubuntu', with a .torrent link. A month of polling would raise it to measured. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | nyaa.si/?page=rss&q=ubuntu&c=0_0&f=0 | RSS 2.0 with the nyaa namespace, channel title 'Nyaa - ubuntu - Torrent File RSS', items whose link is https://nyaa.si/download/<id>.torrent and pubDate 2009 for the one match |
More fields 3
| feed protocol | rss2 |
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| namespace | nyaa |
| saved search | yes |