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Whether an invite is mandatory was not tested: submitting the form creates an account, which a read-only pass does not do.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The public pages of the domain now sell Usenet block accounts and advertise 'Pay Only ONCE', so the indexer and a news provider share one brand; a report of a database outage and fake releases in September 2026 exists in a third-party status tracker.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"caps, the keyed error and the registration form were observed today; the allowance that decides the verdict is third-party. One free account moves this to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"probe:https://www.usenet-crawler.com/api?t=caps&x=1","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"caps returned 200 and 40,803 bytes: title usenet-crawler, , "},{"url":"probe:https://www.usenet-crawler.com/api?t=search&q=linux&x=1","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"unkeyed search returned , 91 bytes"},{"url":"probe:https://www.usenet-crawler.com/register","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the register form carries username, password, confirmpassword, email and an empty invitecode field"},{"url":"https://nzbhydra.com/indexers/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party: 'Open registration', 'USD 20 lifetime membership VIP', '10,000 calls/day', free tier 2,700 days"},{"url":"https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/usenet-crawler-review.html","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party: 'the limits are set to 10k API and 1k NZB downloads per user per day'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","extras":{"price":"USD 20 lifetime VIP (reported)","nzb_is_newznab":true,"caps_limits":100,"registration_open":true},"notes":"Registering would settle both open questions at once (is the invite mandatory, what is the real daily counter) and is the single highest-value follow-up.","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":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:pull-count","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}