---
name: "nzb"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "nzb"
version: "0.2-1.1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nzb"
---

# nzb(1)

nzb based Usenet binary grabber

## NAME

nzb — nzb based Usenet binary grabber

## SYNOPSIS

**nzb** \[*nzb-file*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **nzb** application.

**nzb** is a binary news grabber written in Qt 4. It natively downloads and decodes  the files specified in the .nzb file, an XML format which describes binary  files on Usenet by their message-id. **nzb** provides support for direct streaming  of media files to your favourite media player.

nzb files are a popular way to describe files posted on Usenet which span  several messages (multi-part binaries). These files eliminate the need to  fetch headers from newsgroups as .nzb files contain the message-ids of the  segments which can be downloaded directly from most news servers. A technical  description can be found at http://docs.newzbin.com/Newzbin:NZB\_Specs

**nzb** makes Usenet downloading easy by providing an easy to use interface which  loads up a specified .nzb file and either downloads the files described in the  nzb file or streams the data to an external application. This is usually used for  video files which results in streaming video over Usenet.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,  with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of  options is included below.

- **-h** **--help**

  Show summary of options.

## SEE ALSO

http://nzb.sf.net/

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Mattias Nordstrom nordstrom@realnode.com. Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.