Support Usenet

[jaruba]

Alternative to torrents, basically direct downloads.

Issues:

• it's common for usenet files to be split into a lot of rar files uploaded separately, support would presume sequential download of the rar files, extraction and streaming

Keywords:

• nntp
• nzb
• usenet

References:

• https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra2 (the jackett of usenet)
• https://usenet-crawler.com/
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/usenet-crawler-js-api
• https://github.com/patrickdebruijn/MediaCenter (media center that supports both torrents and usenet, requires further research)
• https://github.com/1313/rar-stream (this could be extremely useful for this)

Possible clients:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/nzb-grabber-js
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jc21/nzbget-jsonrpc-api
• https://github.com/hongkongkiwi/node-nzb-api (this looks old, but very interesting)
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/nzb2http (this also looks very interesting)
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/nitpin (this also looks very interesting)
• https://github.com/maxymania/node-binary-usenet (might be interesting)
• https://github.com/EdinSkeja/nzb-file-download (pretty new, but i'm unsure what this is, looks too simple an has zero docs)

Related tickets:

• Support for NZBHydra2 #30