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Sinnerhp ive been on this all day, baring in mind im a total nooob but it has done my head in. Hopefully someone will post a nice step by step guide for the nooobs coz i definately need it. So frustrating that ive got newznab installed and the site running and that theres nothing on it

It's because the regex that comes with the free one doesn't work for most stuff. It probably works in a limited fashion for some basic groups.

https://raw.github.com/kop1/newznab/mast...tregex.sql

Just grab that SQL file and load it manually into your database. It is old, so it probably won't be as good as the paid for versions but it is better than the 'stock' ones.

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Oh and make sure you disable the automatic regex populating, just delete the auto update URL or all those will be overwritten when it updates.

I had spotweb setup because it had the install programs in a simple package (even though only in dutch), but thanks to you guys in this forum and some spotweb instructions I was able to get it running. The final issue was no post populating on the website, but thanks to this post I was sorted out with the downloaded file.

Thank you for the help... Just wanted to say something for myself and the 100s others following and not commenting.

Glad it helped, it took me a lot of digging to figure out what the problem was and just stumbled across that git project by mistake. I'm guessing the documents on the free version are deliberately vague to try and get people to get the full version.

The big problem I can see with it is the backfills, it should have the option to do incremental backfills rather than trying to backfill 100 days in one huge chunk. It works well for current stuff, but if you want any kind of historical indexing its not the best.

Probably why the paid version comes with a load of historic data already intact.