Usenet Crawler
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Usenet Crawler Debrid
caveatemailno cardRrequest-rate
| Free tier | Free tier reported at 10,000 API calls and 1,000 NZB downloads per user per day, with a USD 20 lifetime VIP; caps declares <registration available="yes" open="yes"/> and <limits max="100" default="100"/>. unit requests; metered on request-count; The 10,000 figure appears in two independent third-party sources but neither is dated on the page, so it is kept as reported and flagged as the number to check first with an account. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: an NZB pointer file |
| Retention | Free tier 2,700 days across 500+ indexed newsgroups; VIP 3,900 days (nzbhydra.com, 2026-10-23). |
| Egress | No byte metering; the API returns pointers. |
| Identity | email The register form asks for username, email, password and an invitecode field, and caps declares registration open=yes. Whether an invite is mandatory was not tested: submitting the form creates an account, which a read-only pass does not do. |
| Limits |
At 10,000 calls a day the request rate stops being the constraint and the 100-result page becomes it: a client that wants a whole season must paginate. |
| Binding | request-rate If the reported allowance holds, nothing in the vocabulary binds at 1 TiB/month; the record still names request-rate because that is the only counter the vendor is documented to run, and it is the one to verify first. |
| Interface | rest Newznab API at /api. /api with no parameters returns <error code="200" description="Missing parameter"/>, which is the Newznab key check, so the endpoint is live and keyed. |
| Tooling | Native Newznab, listed as integrating with NZBVortex and SabNZBD, so Prowlarr and NZBHydra2 add it with URL plus key. |
| Composes with | The only open-registration indexer claiming a five-figure daily API allowance, which is what an arr stack actually needs the caveat is that the claim is third-party and undated. |
| Reliability | 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. |
| 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. |
| Evidence rung | reported 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. |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-07 |
Evidence (5)
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://www.usenet-crawler.com/api?t=caps&x=1 | caps returned 200 and 40,803 bytes: title usenet-crawler, <limits max="100" default="100"/>, <registration available="yes" open="yes"/> |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://www.usenet-crawler.com/api?t=search&q=linux&x=1 | unkeyed search returned <error code="200" description="Missing parameter"/>, 91 bytes |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://www.usenet-crawler.com/register | the register form carries username, password, confirmpassword, email and an empty invitecode field |
| 2026-10-23 | nzbhydra.com/indexers/ | third-party: 'Open registration', 'USD 20 lifetime membership VIP', '10,000 calls/day', free tier 2,700 days |
| 2026-10-23 | www.newsgroupreviews.com/usenet-crawler-review.html | third-party: 'the limits are set to 10k API and 1k NZB downloads per user per day' |
More fields (4)
{
"price": "USD 20 lifetime VIP (reported)",
"nzb_is_newznab": true,
"caps_limits": 100,
"registration_open": true
}