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I am looking for a good download tool, but here are the specifics of what I am hoping to find.
I want to download from one click hosting providers, where you can put in premium info. I like mdownloader and jdownloader, but they lack the ability to parse through an RSS feed.
I'd like to be able to load an RSS feed from a site, and have it find/load a link from a specific file hosting.
Perhaps this doesn't exist... I am looking for a way to automate my downloads without getting too much extra junk, and without going BT.
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Switch to Usenet (Newsgroups) then your be able to do what you want plus its probably one of the safest ways to do anything especially if you go encrypted
Theres a small charge a month I pay $9.99 for unlimited+encrypted
Your then be able to use apps like SABnzbd, SickBeard, CouchPotato plus others
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Do you have a good intro guide or anything you could recommend? I've used it before. (I know google is the answer to all, but I thought you may have some good info to point me to).
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Where do you find a $10 rate? I'd like to try this out. I found a free 2 week offer from Binverse, but the regular rates are steeper. I'll check out those links. I'm completely new to newsgroups, so my apologies for sounding stupid.
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Astraweb has a $96/year deal - highly recommended. And then...
NZBmatrix + SABnzbd makes it stupidly simple. NZBmatrix publishes an RSS feed, and SABnzbd can use that to pull stuff automatically.
There is also a lot of integration between SAB and NZBmatrix now that helps you auto-categorize stuff, even when you download manually (e.g. when I downloading something, it gets auto-sorted into apps/games/movies/tv categories).
SABnzbd also auto-extracts files for you (once it's done the download, it will extract everything, move it to a "Complete" folder, and optionally even send you an email).
The email notifications are great for things like TV episodes -- I just let SAB run, and I get an email whenever it downloads the latest episodes of all my shows.
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(This post was last modified: 2010-11-18, 22:32 by >>X<<.)
Yeah don't go with Binverse
As I said above go to newsgroupreviews the first link I posted they have a few around the $10 mark but make sure you link from their site otherwise you wont get any of the special discount prices
Also make sure you look at retention which is the amount of days they keep content on their servers
I'm actually with Supernews it has slightly less retention than some at 500 days but its actually Giganews its how they sell their lower level products, giganews is probably considered one of the best so you get the same level of service at a lower price
Personally I would start of with something simple like SABnzbd and use it with NZB.SU it has RSS including one for your cart which SABnzbd could filter it will also work with SickBeard, CouchPotato
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Ok, I'm trying to get this into my thick head.
To review... I need a subscription to a newsgroup, and a newsreader.
Different newsgroups have different plans, retention rates, etc. (I personally need a minimal retention rate).
SABnzbd is a newsreader. It also supports NZB files, correct? Or only NZB files? Do I then need a newsreader to browse usenet?
What is nzbmatrix? It says it is an index, but doesnt the newsgroup provide searching/indexing?
Does each newsgroup have rss feeds? (or are they called NZB feeds?) Or is that something I have to find?
For TV shows, do I find a newsgroup thread (right term?) for each show, or is there a single thread that I then have to parse?
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Thanks for all the assistance. I read the wiki, and it all makes a bit more sense. A few more questions.
1. I read that a bunch of ISPs shutdown access to Usenet a few years back. I presume that doesn't mean all the different newservers, just the ISPs newserver, correct?
Other than Sabnzbd, which is only for nzb files, whats a good client to use? (Or am I totally misunderstanding that I should use nzbmatrix instead of a client?