- Free allowance
- No account and no key.
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- measured3 sources; a live request was made and its output kept
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | No account and no key. GET /search/?q=linux returned 54,006 bytes with a rendered result list, and GET /nzb:<details-id>/ returned a 7,231-byte NZB with 19 files. No daily counter is published on the site. unit unlimited; metered on none; No quota page exists; the claim rests on a 5-request burst rather than a vendor sentence. |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate none observed: 5 consecutive anonymous searches in one session, all 200
No request counter, byte counter or per-IP shaping was observed. |
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| Binding | none Nothing in the vocabulary fails at 1 TiB/month. The practical ceiling is index coverage per newsgroup, which is not a limit kind. |
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| Identity | anonymous No account and no key: search and NZB download both answered an anonymous request. |
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| Egress | No metering. The result page and the NZB are both kilobytes; the payload comes from the news provider. |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the answer is an NZB pointer file (7,231 bytes, 19 files), never the payload |
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| Retention | not stated on the pages read. A third-party indexer comparison claims '4,000+ days retention, 200 million+ Usenet posts indexed, 3,570 newsgroups' (nzbhydra.com, 2026-10-23). |
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| Interface | rest HTML search over HTTP GET against /search/?q=<query>. Each result carries a /details:<id>/ link and an NZB link served as /nzb:<id>/. Both are plain GETs. |
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| Tooling | No Newznab API found, so Prowlarr and NZBHydra2 cannot add it. A wrapper parses /search and GETs /nzb:<id>/, and the site also offers a per-query RSS feed (the page advertises 'Get query as RSS feed'), which is the cheaper automation route. |
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| Composes with | A third unnamed fallback that also exposes an RSS feed per query, so a cron job can watch a name without a scraper. |
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| Reliability | The result page loads a cookie-consent script and an analytics tag before results; the results themselves are server-rendered, so a plain GET still sees them. |
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| Evidence note | measured Search and download were run today with status, bytes and digest. A per-query RSS feed is advertised in the page text but was not fetched, so the feed route is documented-by-advertisement only. |
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