ozsource Australia

It is time to highlight some more great OpenSource Software. This time it is SABnzbd, A highly flexible, feature packed and modular binary newsreader.  SABnzb is available on  Windows (XP/Vista/Servers), Linux/Unix, Apple OSX and NAS devices.

What is SABnzbd?

SABnzbd is a free/open-source cross-platform binary newsreader written in Python.

It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, thanks to its friendly web-based user interface and advanced built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair, extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet. SABnzbd also has a fully customizable user interface, and offers a complete API for third-party applications to hook into.

Plush Web Interface for sabnzb

SABnzbd Features

Fully automated downloading

• Picks up NZB files from a special folder
• Par2-repair and unpack to suitable folder
• Process RSS feeds from sites like www.newzbin.com and tvnzb.com and many others
• Automatic TV season folder sorting
• Sends email on job completion

Tuning options

• Bandwidth limiter
• Caching
• Special situations

Storage options

• Define categories to store downloads in the right folder
• Precise folder assignment

Web interface

• Supports download on one computer, control from another one
• Multiple skins
• Special iPhone skin
• RSS Feed for history (to be read in a RSS-reader)

Usenet servers

• SSL (secure-NNTP)
• Define multiple Usenet servers
• Scheduling of downloading
• IPV6-compatible

Download SABnzbd from the Official Homepage. and checkout some of the available 3rd party plugins.