- Free allowance
- No account and no key. /api?t=caps returned 2,128 bytes with <limits max="500" default="50"/> and <registration available="no" open="no"/>; /api?t=search&q=linux returned 41,244 bytes with 50 items; /api?t=g&id=... returned a 7,346-byte NZB.
- 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. /api?t=caps returned 2,128 bytes with <limits max="500" default="50"/> and <registration available="no" open="no"/>; /api?t=search&q=linux returned 41,244 bytes with 50 items; /api?t=g&id=... returned a 7,346-byte NZB. unit unlimited; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate none observed: 3 requests in one session, all 200
- request-rate 500 results per request maximum per caps source
The 500/50 clamp was measured on the twin instance nzbserver.com, where limit=501 returns the 50-result default; the same code is running here (identical caps shape). |
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| Binding | none No counter to hit; the same result-clamp caveat as nzbserver.com. |
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| Identity | anonymous Nothing: registration is declared unavailable and no key was needed for caps, search or get. |
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| Egress | No metering and no account. |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable per object; at most 500 results per request per caps |
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| Retention | not published. Spotnet-derived catalogue; depth follows the Spotnet post history. |
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| Interface | rest Newznab-shaped API at /api, caps type Spotweb version 0.1, with search, tv-search and get. No apikey was required. |
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| Tooling | Works as a generic Newznab indexer in Prowlarr and NZBHydra2, and therefore in Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr, with no wrapper and no key. Same Spotweb surface as nzbserver.com. |
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| Composes with | A second hostname for the same anonymous Spotnet index; useful as failover for nzbserver.com, not as extra coverage. |
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| Reliability | Volunteer-run Spotweb instance with a stock placeholder email in caps; the NZB it served was byte-identical to nzbserver.com's, so the two go down together only if the shared backend does. |
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| Notes | Listed in a community index of Usenet indexers as 'No accounts, Free'. Its caps is a stock Spotweb default, so it is a second front end rather than a separately curated index. |
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| Evidence note | measured caps, search and download measured. The clamp detail is carried from the twin instance and is labelled as such rather than claimed as measured here. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- request-rate 3 requests
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