Usenet is a data river currently flowing at around 25TB per day. nZEDb leverages advanced data mining techniques to peer into this vast amount of data and locate possible items of interest. Similar to the way a fisherman would use sonar to locate fish.
It does this by collecting usenet headers and temporarily storing them in a database until they can be collated into releases. It provides a web-based front-end providing search, browse, and programmable (API) functionality.
This project is a fork of the open source usenet indexer newznab plus: https://github.com/anth0/nnplus
nZEDb improves upon the original design, implementing several new features including:
Optional multi-threaded processing (header retrieval, release creation, post-processing etc)
Advanced search features (name, subject, category, post-date etc)