SABnzbd for OSX
SABnzbd is a web-interface based binary newsgrabber written in python, with nzb file support.
SABnzbd is a free news client with many abilities, such as
* Download files from your newshost
* Access the news client from any internet connection. Connect from work, school, wherever and tell SABnzbd to download. Your downloads are ready when you get home.
* No more repairing or unpacking. SABnzbd handles the dirty work for you. You tell it what to download and when it is done, SABnzbd will repair the download, unpack it, and clean up the mess. Leaving you with nothing but the files you
Tags: NZB , newsgroups , usenet
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Not sure what to do about this, but the place to get an OSX version of this app is now the official sourceforge page at www.sabnzbd.org
This is the best, and most stable version ever. With an ability to strip nzb files from an RSS feed, then categorise them.
An iPhone comptible interface, integration with newzbin.com this is the best binary downloader bar none.
I find it's far more useful now than it was earlier, especially once you get https://nzbdstatus.bountysource.com/ nzbdstatus for FireFox (or the greasemonkey script) and for OSX, http://www.pwsoftwareproductions.nl/site/node/5 . the desktop GUI there is glitchy, but for what it does do, without a browser, it's fantastic.
There is definitely a lack of documentation, but as with all the best things a little bit of effort is all thats needed.
Yes it uses backup servers, it calls them fill servers it is simply a checkbox on the config page.
By far the best Usenet tool for the mac, topping Unison, if not through ease of use, but by simply unpacking the files for you after download - an invaluable function.
There's not much documentation for this app (or the original sabnzb)...
Does it support priority levels for servers? Ie: if file not found in primary server, use backup server. The backup server could for instance be a free server with a quota, used to fill the missing parts.
Note: the forum on sourceforge could contain that information, but searching through thousands of messages is a bit long. :)
marcus:
Yup, it does! But it still works - you need to point your browser at: http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/ to configure it as it is all run through this webinterface...
But, definately a bug worth solving
This app freeze for me on startup
Finally, an easy way to install SABnzb on the Mac! Thank you :)
This destroys any other binary news reader out there for its ability to download, fix and unpack your binaries.
Save your .nzb files to the blackhole directory or use a greesemonkey script to get one click downloads at newzbin.com: http://www.skizzers.org/sa/usenet/SABnzbdIcon.user.js
although i don't utilize usenet too much (like once in a blue moon to snag the occasional phish show) this seems like a pretty neat idea and although i have osxnews, i have only had to use it once and it was pretty buggy, also osxnews hasn't seen much development in a while. so, this looks like something i would definitely consider switching too, especially if osxnews' development comes to a complete halt.
LOVE this program. I use it on my Linux server.