Slurp Usenet binaries with URD

[zot]

No one talks much about Usenet these days, but people are still posting plenty of stuff there, including a large volume of binary files – images, executables, music, and video. If you want an easy way to skim some of that bounty for yourself, check out URD, an application that lets you download binaries from Usenet newsgroups through a web interface.

URD lets you subscribe to newsgroups, then automatically analyzes articles to form downloadable sets of all the files belonging to a specific upload. It displays the sets and lets you point and click to specify what you want to download. While some similar utilities need external NZB files to function, URD does not, though it can import them for downloads and allows you to export them for others to use.

Architecturally, URD is a daemon process that runs continuously in the background on Linux, *BSD, or Mac OS X systems, supported by a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL.

“URD is probably the most versatile Usenet client that is entirely web-based,” says Dutch developer Gavin Spearhead, “and it’s very easy to extend. For instance, I just added support to download subtitles through a subdownloader. And it has many nifty capabilities, such as automatic detection of RAR encryption and scheduling of downloads. In fact URD has so many options nowadays that half the forum posts consist of ‘can you make it do this or that,’ and I always have to tell them it already does.”

Complete Article on: http://sourceforge.net/blog/slurp-us...ries-with-urd/

(** I don't if know if this should be posted in the News Section or not ** )

[justlooking]

Very interesting. Gonna have to check that out for sure. Thanks.

[zot]

URD is an excellent open-source binary newsreader that has languished for years largely unknown, even among non-Windows users. Maybe it's kind of an odd coincidence that within days after I mentioned URD in this Linux news reader thread, the usenet information site Binaries4all.NL added URD to their recommended list of usenet clients, and then SourceForge featured an interview with URD'S developer.

[ericab]

urd is sinfully ugly.

functionally its pretty nice though.

cant get over the way it looks.

ill stick with newsleech+sabnzb

[Wwwildthing]

If you don't mind setting up a LINUX SERVER to do HALF of what NewsRover can do... then yea, it's ok.