hellanzb
hellanzb is a as hands-free as possible. Once fully installed, all thats required is moving an nzb file to the queue directory. The rest, fetching, par-checking, un-raring, etc. is taken care of by hellanzb
hellanzb also will send notices of when it has completed a file or encountered an error via.
hellanzb 0.13 has been released! [March 26 2007]
The latest stable releases of hellanzb are available from http://www.hellanzb.com/distfiles/.
Enjoy!
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Supported Platforms
hellanzb officially supports:
- FreeBSD (via a supplied FreeBSD port file)
- OS X (via a supplied Darwinports dport file)
hellanzb should work on any UNIX platform (Windows notes: click here), but installing it via the stable releases of the port/dport (NOT -trunk releases) on the supported platforms is by far the easiest and most surefire way to use hellanzb. M$ Windows is NOT supported.
Features
- Configurable queue (like nzbq and similar apps), allows on the fly (during download) organization to the queue, operations such as:
- arranging the order of your download queue
- force downloading of a file in your queue (postponing the current download)
- pause/continue/cancel the current download
- all remote operations are also available as XML-RPC calls
- Extremely quick, low CPU usage, integrated Usenet retriever built on twisted
- for those with multiple usenet servers, supports automatic failover. Multiple server pools (defineServer lines) can automatically requeue articles totally missing from their respective servers for redownloading on other server pools
- supports bandwidth throttling
- automatically reconnects and anti idles NNTP connections
- Hella smart post processor, automatically handles:
- par2/par1 verification and repair (can handle archives with multiple par file sets)
- unraring (can handle archives with multiple rar sets)
- joining split .ts files and files split via hjsplit and similar tools
- configurable music decompression via external cmd line apps. can spawn multiple decompress processes (especially handy for multi processor/SMP servers)
- picks up post processing where it left off (if canceled due to exiting the program/CTRL-C) after restarting hellanzb
- post processes all sub directories
- and optionally deletes all processed files after successful post processing (like rars and pars)
- Supports using a faster C based yDecoder (optional). Requires yEnc module for python, available from: http://www.hellanzb.com/hellanzb-content/yenc-0.3.tar.gz
- Supports downloading NZBs with the specified msgid from http://www.newzbin.com
- Mac OS X Growl notification support ( http://bit.ly/dt3ruz)
- Linux libnotify notification support
- Can optionally log its status to a log file, with automatic rollover & cutoff
- Can optionally run as a daemon process
- Fast Web UI via HellaHella with bookmarklet's for one-click downloading at newzbin
- Automated Episode Downloading with or other Automated Episode Downloaders (see below)
Screenshots
 hellanzb v0.5-pre starting up with Mac OS X Growl notifications |
 hellanzb v0.5-pre CTRL-C delayed because of background post processing |
 hellanzb v0.5-pre second CTRL-C kills the background work and exits |
hellanzb related apps
Browser/Program? Extensions
Disclaimer
It is absolutely not the intent of the hellanzb developers that this software be used for downloading copyrighted content. Be nice .
