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New Quick-Start Wizard - If you don't have any servers set you'll get a neat little five-page wizard allowing you to change all the config settings you really need to worry about....
High speeds
Command line options
User-defined scripts
Automation Support
Folder setup
Unix permissions
Install as a Windows service
Install as a Windows Scheduled task
Install as a Unix...
This is the start of new API documentation aimed at a future release.
The proposed API commands may not be implemented in current or SVN copies of sabnzbd.
Overview
Accessing the queue
Starting...
To help connect SABnzbd to other utilities, some automation functions are available through the web-interface.
PLEASE NOTE: Starting with release 0.4.9 each API call must have the extra parameter...
You can start SABnzbd with options. You normally do this from a command prompt (Windows) or a shell (Unix).
An option is a combination of the option name and one parameter. For parameters that...
Configure
SABnzbd has lots of configuration options. Most have a sensible default and need no changing unless you have special needs.
The Server section you have to fill in, otherwise SABnzbd will...
SABnzbd can send you emails about completion of jobs and about disk almost full condition.
You can send email through the SMTP server of your ISP. This is generally the easiest option, that doesn't...
Configure Folders1
User Folders
By default these folders are stored in the user's "My Documents" folder (Windows), the Home folder (OSX) or $HOME (Unix).
However, you can choose to put these...
Configure Folders
User Folders
By default these folders are stored in the user's "My Documents" folder (Windows) or $HOME (Unix).
However, you can choose to put these folders anywhere else. The...
Web server
The user interface of SABnzb is a web-site. You can modify some web site behaviour here.
Host
The hostname that will be used to access sabnzbd. The default of localhost will only allow...
Web server
The user interface of SABnzb is a web-site. You can modify some web site behaviour here.
Host
The hostname that will be used to access sabnzbd. The default of localhost will only allow...
Newzbin
Should you have an account for the website newzbin.com, you can fill in your username and password.
This allows you to use newzbin report numbers, bookmarks and RSS feature to retrieve NZB...
Account
Should you have an account for the website newzbin.com, you can fill in your username and password.
This allows you to use newzbin report numbers, bookmarks and RSS feature to retrieve NZB...
SABnzbd can read RSS-feeds provided by websites like www.newzbin.com and www.tvnzb.com.
These sites will offer you the latest downloads or return results based on some query.
For a list of...
Configure Scheduling
You may want to restrict downloading to specific time slots. This can be because your ISP or Usenet provider wants you to.
Or maybe you don't want to download during peak usage...
Configure Scheduling
You may want to restrict downloading to specific time slots. This can be because your ISP or Usenet provider wants you to.
Or maybe you don't want to download during peak usage...
Configure Servers
If you want to download anything, you need to have access to one or more Usenet servers.
These servers can be your own ISP's Usenet server, a free public one or one of the many...
Configure Servers
If you want to download anything, you need to have access to one or more Usenet servers.
These servers can be your own ISP's Usenet server, a free public one or one of the many...
Series Sorting
Detection
For SABnzbd to know a downloaded nzb is part of a series, it needs to be named in a certain way. SABnzbd requires the show name followed by the episode number and series...
Control post-processing behaviour
Extra PAR2 parameters
See Multi-core PAR2
IONice parameters
See IONice to reduce disk priority
Enable unrar
Allow the use of the UNRAR command for unpacking...
Processing switches
Enable QuickCheck
Normally par2-based downloads are verified and (if required) repaired by the external par2 program. This takes a lot time. SABnzbd can check the correctness...
User-defined categories specify what should be done with the result of a download.
Each category specifies:
The Folder or full path for final storage (relative folders are based of your complete...
This page is mainly for diagnostic purposes.
You can see all active connections with Usenet servers.
The Force Disconnect button is used to free locked up connections.
You will notice lockups when...
Overview
Development of SABnzbd is hosted on www.assembla.com, more specifically the SABnzbd TRAC site.
SourceForge.net is our distribution platform.
User support
Questions, answers and bug...
Like may other "localhost" web-servers, SABnzbd suffers from a cross-site request vulnerability.
This problem was our attention by the firm Secunia.
They informed us of a vulnerability caused by...
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<title>Donation Button</title>
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<body>...
If you really appreciate the job we have done and want to stimulate us to do more, please make a donation.
What we contribute most is our time, so much in fact that we don't expect donations to...
SABnzbd can send a notification email on completion of a download job.
There is a default format, but you can format your own email using a template.
The formatting language used, is Cheetah. This...
Frequently Asked Questions about SABnzbd
What is SABnzbd?
SABnzbd is a multi-platform binary newsgroup downloader.
The program works in the background and simplifies the downloading verifying and...
SABnzbd Feature overview
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...
SABnzbd uses a number of folders for different purposes. Some are just for internal administration.
Given that some folders can become very large, you may want to relocate them.
The following table...
SABnzbd has the ability to do some clever folder sorting on files based on the name of the nzb. Currently this is only extended to nzb files that are part of a series such as TV shows.
TV...
What do you need to get started with SABnzbd?
Usenet/Newsgroup Provider
NZB Website
Third Party tools
Usenet/Newsgroup Provider
Your ISP may provide one, but usually they only provide the last...
We do like to see that people port SABnzbd to the various Linux/Unix distributions.
Given it's portability, it should be easy to port SABnzbd.
The following guidelines may make life easier.
SABnzbd...
If you are blessed with a fast connection (20MB/s and over) and are not getting the full speeds you require, you can try the following:
Set the article cache in config>general. This will keep...
Release 0.4.12
Bug fixes
- Update unrar for Windows to 3.90 (solves CRC errors when unpacking)
- Don't show NZB-s no longer present in the RSS feed in the preview
(they won't be matched anyway)
-...
Release 0.5.0
There have no binary releases for 0.5.0, but if you want you can get sources from www.assembla.com
Implemented/solved so far:
This shows an overview of all completed jobs and their status.
Single or all entries can be removed. The downloaded data is not affected.
0.3.4
fixed: New option "safe postproc" did not work
fixed: Errors/warning screen sometimes causes HTML problems
0.3.3
fixed: Improve robustness newzbin report fetching
fixed: File was skipped if...
If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor with a toolbar pallette with options.
To create a link to a new page,...
It may be benificial to use the Apache 2 webserver as a front-end for SABnzbd.
Assuming that:
you have installed and configured Apache 2 correctly
SABnzbd listens to http://localhost:8080
this is...
only for Windows
Portable means that you can:
Have an installation on an external medium (USB-harddisk)
You can plug in to any PC as is.
You don't need to install anything on the PC
You don't need...
Some little tutorials on specific usage of SABnzbd.
How to run from Python sources on OSX
How to hide SABnzbd behind an Apache server
How to save NZB files automatically to SABnzbd's blackhole...
SABnzbd has the Watched Folder feature. Any NZB file you put in this folder will automatically picked up as a job by SABnzbd.
So when you download an NZB file with your browser you need to save the...
Running SABnzbd directly from a shell or a desktop shortcut is not always practical, especially not on a server.
It is important that SABnzbd is closed properly when a system goes down, otherwise...
First download the Windows 2003 Resource kit from the Microsoft site and install it.
Next, assuming that SABnzbd is installed in d:\bin\sabnzbd, do the following steps.
Run in a cmd...
Alas, the CentOS 5.2 repositories do not have all required modules, so you need to so some work yourself.
It does come with Python 2.4, which is OK for SABnzbd.
Some extra packages are available if...
Installation of SABnzbd on ClarkConnect 4.2.
Not many modules are directly available, but it is possible to install the required material.
You need to install the compiler packages too.
WARNING:...
The team does not officially support running SABnzbd on NAS devices.
Several people have managed to get SABnzbd running on NAS devices.
It's a bit of a challenge because you need to install many...
Someone has created a package for the Synology DS107e1.
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ds101g/cross/stable/Packages.gz
Package: sabnzbdplus
Version: 0.4.3-1
Depends: py25-cheetah,...
Python 2.5.2 is installed by default.
From a shell prompt run these commands:
sudo apt-get install python-cheetah
sudo apt-get install python-yenc
sudo apt-get install python-feedparser
sudo...
Install for Unix/Linux.
Official Repositories
ArchLinux
For some platforms people have created unofficial packages.
Ubuntu
For other platforms it's more work. For some it's just apt-get (or yum...
The easiest way to install SABnzbd on a Windows system is to use the binary distribution (available here on SourceForge).
The package is a installer, so run it and answer the questions.
You do not...
SABnzbd
SABnzbd1 is a program to download binary files from Usenet servers. Many people upload all sorts of interesting material to Usenet and you need a special program to get this material with...
For each download job you can set post-processing options. While the download is still in the queue, you can even change them on-the-fly.
No post processing at all. Just download all the files...
Please change this page according to your policy (configure first using Site Manager) and remove this note.
Who can join?
You can write here who can become a member of this site.
Join!
So you...
"Add URL" allows you to specify a URL and SABnzbd will download the NZB file located at the URL.
"Add File" allowes you to upload an NZB file that is already on your local hard drive.
If you have...
For other platforms you will have to hunt around for complete packages or install from sources.
Many packages require a working GCC compiler installed on your platform!
Python
Home Page
Python 2.4...
Sometimes you encounter encrypted (or password-protected) RARs.
Supposing you know the required password, you can tell it to SABnzbd before the download starts post-processing.
You can do it in two...
Overview of the jobs waiting to be downloaded.
You have these options:
(1) Examine the status of the files within the job
(2) Change the category of the job (this will reset the job-options and...
Installing SABnzbd (Windows)
Grab the latest release from the sabnzbd.org download page.
The current latest windows install is named: SABnzbd-0.4.5-win32-setup.exe
Run the downloaded setup...
Adding an .nzb file to SABnzbd
1) Add by URL
From the main web-interface page you can provide a direct link to an .nzb file for SABnzbd to download.
2) Upload an .nzb
From the main web-interface...
SABnzbd can read RSS-feeds provided by websites like www.newzbin.com and www.tvnzb.com.
These sites will offer you the latest downloads or return results based on some query.
For a list of...
SABnzbd supports these RSS sites1. See Config->RSS.
This list is not complete, it's just the sites we know and of which the (in-)compatibility has been established.
Working
www.newzbin.com (see...
We provide a packaged application (for PPC/x86) available here: sabnzbd.org/download
How to run from sources on OSX
For OSX 10.4 you needed to install Python first. OSX 10.5 already has it...
Introduction
Features
Quick Setup
Quick Usage
Tips
How To's
FAQ
Where to get NZB-s?
Installation
Windows
Unix
Apple...
Members:
Moderators
Admins
Alternative skins
Some people have created skins (alternative web interfaces) for SABnzbd.
These interfaces can be added in the interfaces folder in the SABnzbd program folder. Look at the other...
Solved problems
Open problems
RSS feed
SABnzbd has its own RSS-feed where it displays the download history. This is a nice way to keep an eye on SABnzbd.
http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/rss?mode=history
When you have set a...
Quick Links
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Announcements
Donations
Contact
Donations
JCFP maintains an Ubuntu package which is stored in an unofficial repository1.
The following part is (c) 2008 by JCF Ploemen
How To
I've created a repository with the latest version of SABnzbd+....
Unix only
When SABnzbd runs on a Unix-like server, the download result must often be made available for other users.
Normally files that are created by a user account, are private. This is also...
SABnzbd User Manual
Introduction
Features
Getting Started
Quick Setup
Quick Usage
Command Line Parameters
Installing using the Ubuntu Repository
Frequently Asked Questions
What is SABnzbd?
What...
SABnzbd can run a user-provided script to be executed when a job is completed.
You can do whatever you like with such a script.
The script will receive these parameters. Use %1 in Windows scripts...
Added in version 0.5
Please note you might not be able to operate SABnzbd from behind a Apache of LightTpd server when using HTTPS
Requires: pyopenssl (listed as python-openssl under apt-get)
To...
If this is your first site
Then there are some things you need to know:
You can configure all security and other settings online, using the Site Manager. When you invite other people to help build...
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
SABnzbd only accepts NZB files as download specifications1.
An NZB file contains a full specification of all Usenet articles that are needed for a download.
You can get these files from sites...
This is an alternative way of getting SABnzbd to run on startup without any problems from running it as a service or putting it in the Startup Folder
The following is based off daddy_fizz's...
Running the source python (.py) files on a window box is not recommended unless you are wanting to try the latest SVN copy, or make changes yourself.
Here is a brief guide to getting it...
First, you probably want to disable sabnzbd from launching your web browser when starting.
Go to Config>Switches and turn off "Auto Browser"
Then drag your SABnzbd.exe from your desktop (or make...
