How to search Usenet (RAW) like on Newzbin?

[Frankel]

Hello all.

This may be a 'novice' question, but how do you search Usenet RAW, like you can do on Newzbin?

Newzbin seems to be blocked now by various ISPs, and it seems slow.

Just wondered if other NZB indexing sites allowed for Usenet searching rather than the actual NZB files themselves.

Thank you!

[Racoon]

You can use a usenet search engine

www.mysterbin.com

www.nzbindex.nl

www.binsearch.info

[mjmacky]

mysterbin com
binsearch info
nzbindex com

[Frankel]

Thanks for your helpful replies!

[mjmacky]

I'm pretty sure I didn't see racoons post before I replied. Was it awaiting moderation or something?

[sandman_1]

http://www.nzbclub.com/

Another good one I use.

[Frankel]

Thanks everyone for your helpful replies!

[zot]

there are quite a few other raw search engines to play around with, such as search.aeton.biz and yabsearch.nl -- but none are better overall than the ones listed above.

[ChrisSaw]

there are quite a few other raw search engines to play around with, such as search.aeton.biz and yabsearch.nl -- but none are better overall than the ones listed above.

The problem I have is the definition of "raw search," especially in an indexed newsgroup search site. binsearch.info is my favorite search site (love the https connection), but I can't search "raw" subject fields, and suddenly find myself needing that capacity. Someone 700+ days ago posted a television series to a specific newsgroup, with multiple seasons. Problem is, the poster named all of the .par2 files the same, "series.name.par2" which confuses the blazes out of binsearch, nzbindex, and the rest. Because of a mild variation in subject header, they list two of the .par2/nzb files, and lump the volxxx files together under those two. By downloading all of the listed vol files (thanks to differences in size, the last "vol015-xxx" were different), I have been able to find verifiers for every season except season 2 (although not enough to repair should any but a few blocks be missing). Frustrating.

Is there anywhere where I can search for, say, "series.title.par2" )or even better, "series.name.nzb") in the subject of the usenet post and just get a "raw" list of every posting in that newsgroup which contains (but does not equal) that string without having to trip over the index's incorrect assumptions about what binary goes with which collection?

[heiska]

there are quite a few other raw search engines to play around with, such as search.aeton.biz and yabsearch.nl -- but none are better overall than the ones listed above.

The problem I have is the definition of "raw search," especially in an indexed newsgroup search site. binsearch.info is my favorite search site (love the https connection), but I can't search "raw" subject fields, and suddenly find myself needing that capacity. Someone 700+ days ago posted a television series to a specific newsgroup, with multiple seasons. Problem is, the poster named all of the .par2 files the same, "series.name.par2" which confuses the blazes out of binsearch, nzbindex, and the rest. Because of a mild variation in subject header, they list two of the .par2/nzb files, and lump the volxxx files together under those two. By downloading all of the listed vol files (thanks to differences in size, the last "vol015-xxx" were different), I have been able to find verifiers for every season except season 2 (although not enough to repair should any but a few blocks be missing). Frustrating.

Is there anywhere where I can search for, say, "series.title.par2" )or even better, "series.name.nzb") in the subject of the usenet post and just get a "raw" list of every posting in that newsgroup which contains (but does not equal) that string without having to trip over the index's incorrect assumptions about what binary goes with which collection?

Have you tried
http://nzb.su/searchraw or
http://www.mysterbin.com/advsearch?

[ChrisSaw]

Much thanks for the awesome response!


Have you tried
http://nzb.su/searchraw or
http://www.mysterbin.com/advsearch?

Not before just now, no...I hadn't heard of these sites before. In fairness, what I don't know about the Internet fills volumes. ;)

NZB.su doesn't seem to have the group these files were in available (based on getting no hits at all, and then checking browse). Mysterbin gave me the same two results searching with "Normal" Match Accuracy (clearly many of these sites are using the same database, or the same database creation software, anyway), but using "Desperate" Match Accuracy it separated the five seasons into different collection groups. And in there, buried inside the group listing, was a different set of vol par2 files. I pulled the 00+01 and got the verification file I was missing to verify the season I needed!

Bet'cha I'm bookmarking Mysterbin for future "where the heck is it?" searches! That "Desperate" setting pulled a whole lot of extraneous stuff, but it also gave me the files I needed in a place I could find 'em!

[edwindaniel]

tanks for the info.