{"eid":"nzbgeek","name":"NZBGeek","domain":"nzbgeek.info","resolved_by":"domain","topics":["debrid"],"n_records":1,"best_vorder":6,"review":null,"aliases":["NZBGeek","nzbgeek.info"],"records":[{"rid":"debrid/nzbgeek","card":{"rid":"debrid/nzbgeek","eid":"nzbgeek","topic":"debrid","slug":"nzbgeek","provider":"NZBGeek","url":"https://nzbgeek.info/","domain":"nzbgeek.info","category":"Usenet indexer (Newznab API, paid membership)","tier":"free","verdict":"fails-quota","vorder":6,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"request-rate","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:11:54.066Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-07","n_evidence":8,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"No usable free API, and the free tier itself is in dispute. Three third-party readings: 'you need a paid membership to search and download' (usenet.com, 2026...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"slug":"nzbgeek","provider":"NZBGeek","url":"https://nzbgeek.info/","category":"Usenet indexer (Newznab API, paid membership)","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"No usable free API, and the free tier itself is in dispute. Three third-party readings: 'you need a paid membership to search and download' (usenet.com, 2026); '3-day trial, 15 NZBs total' (datahoarder.io); '5 NZB downloads per day, around 5 API calls per day' (bigwritehook.co.uk). What is measured: /api?t=search without a key returns <error code=\"102\" description=\"Empty API Key\"/>, and caps declares <registration available=\"no\" open=\"no\"/>. A membership is USD 12/year.","unit":"requests","metered_on":"request-count","source_url":"https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"The conservative reading is the one the vendor's own API supports: an unkeyed call is refused, and no reading of the free tier describes an API allowance enough to drive an arr stack. The 5-calls-a-day figure is not refuted, only unsourced."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: an NZB pointer file","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not stated on the API surface. A third-party listing claims 'NZBs from 8 years ago available, 500,000+ indexed NZBs' (nzbhydra.com, 2026-10-23).","days":null,"source_url":"https://nzbhydra.com/indexers/","notes":"reported"},"egress":{"terms":"No byte metering: the API returns XML pointers. The payload is served by whichever news provider the client pays.","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"Newznab API on a separate host, api.nzbgeek.info/api, not nzbgeek.info/api (the apex returns HTML). caps declares <limits max=\"100\" default=\"100\"/> and <registration available=\"no\" open=\"no\"/>. An unkeyed search returns error code 102.","endpoint":"https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps ; https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=search&q=<query>&apikey=<key>","tooling":"Native Newznab: Prowlarr, NZBHydra2, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr and Mylar all add it with URL plus key. No wrapper needed. The API host is different from the site host, which is the first mistake a hand-rolled config makes.","chaining":"A broad, well-populated index that a paid arr stack reaches with no wrapper; on the free tier it contributes nothing to automation, because no reading of the free tier gives an API allowance that could drive a stack.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"no free API allowance that a stack can use; paid membership USD 12/year","source":"https://nzbhydra.com/indexers/"},{"kind":"request-rate","value":"100 results per request maximum (caps <limits max=\"100\"/>)","source":"https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps"}],"limits_note":"The 100 is a per-request result ceiling and applies to every tier; it is not the paid allowance.","binding":"request-rate","binding_note":"The API call allowance is what fails first: without a key the first automated search is refused outright (error 102), and the readings of the free tier that describe an allowance put it at 5 calls a day, which is one search every five hours.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Registration is contradictory at the vendor: the login page links 'register account?' and register.php serves a Registration Agreement with an agree step, while /api?t=caps declares <registration available=\"no\" open=\"no\"/>. No account was created, so the fields a signup actually demands were not observed.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The membership is what keeps the index alive; a lapsed membership drops the account back to the capped tier and automation stops with no partial service.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"The caps and the unkeyed error were measured. The free allowance that decides the verdict is third-party, because no account was created. Creating one free account and reading its API page would move this to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"probe:https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps&x=1","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"caps returned 200 and 3,927 bytes: NZBgeek, <limits max=\"100\" default=\"100\"/>, <registration available=\"no\" open=\"no\"/>"},{"url":"probe:https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=search&q=linux&x=1","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"unkeyed search returned 200 with 47 bytes: <error code=\"102\" description=\"Empty API Key\"/>, so the API is closed to a free, unauthenticated caller"},{"url":"probe:https://nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the apex host serves HTML for /api, 91,943 bytes; the API lives only on api.nzbgeek.info"},{"url":"probe:https://nzbgeek.info/register.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"an anonymous GET receives the Registration Agreement plus an 'agree' submit, which contradicts the caps registration flag; no POST was made"},{"url":"https://nzbhydra.com/indexers/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party: NZBGeek 'USD 12/year VIP', free tier '0 calls'"},{"url":"https://datahoarder.io/nzbgeek-review/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party: the paid tier 'removes download caps and unlocks full API integration'"},{"url":"https://www.usenet.com/free-nzb-sites/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party: 'NZBgeek used to have a free level, but now you need a paid membership to search and download.'"},{"url":"https://datahoarder.io/drunkenslug-vs-nzbgeek/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party table: NZBGeek free tier '3-day trial, 15 NZBs total', API 'unlimited on paid plans'"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","extras":{"price":"USD 12/year (reported)","nzb_is_newznab":true,"caps_limits":100,"api_host":"api.nzbgeek.info","unkeyed_error":"102 Empty API Key"},"notes":"Two vendor signals contradict each other on registration: a served agreement form says open, caps says available=no. The conservative reading is recorded on the record and not resolved, because resolving it needs an account. The verdict rests on the API allowance, which is independent of that question.","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:11:54.066Z","topic":"debrid","price_per_tb_month":null},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}