hellanzb is a Python application designed for *nix environments that retrieves nzb files and fully processes them. The goal being to make getting files from Usenet as hands-free as possible. Once fully installed, all thats required is moving an nzb file to the queue directory.

hellanzb takes care of the rest fetching, par-checking, un-raring, etc.

hellanzb also will send notices of when it has completed a file or encountered an error via Growl.

Here are some key features of "hellanzb":

· Downloads and post processes your archives all for you. Post processing automatically takes place in the background while hellanzb continues downloading the next archive in your queue!
Configurable queue (like nzbq and similar apps), allows on the fly (during download) organization to the queue, operations such as:
· arranging the order of your download queue
· force downloading of a file in your queue (postponing the current download)
· pause/continue/cancel the current download
· all remote operations are also available as XML-RPC calls

Extremely quick, low CPU usage, integrated Usenet retriever built on twisted:
· for those with multiple usenet servers, supports automatic failover. Multiple server pools (defineServer lines) can automatically requeue articles totally missing from their respective servers for redownloading on other server pools
· supports bandwidth throttling
· automatically reconnects and anti idles NNTP connections

Hella smart post processor, automatically handles:
· par2/par1 verification and repair (can handle archives with multiple par file sets)
· unraring (can handle archives with multiple rar sets)
· joining split .ts files and files split via hjsplit and similar tools
· configurable music decompression via external cmd line apps. can spawn multiple decompress processes (especially handy for multi processor/SMP servers)
· picks up post processing where it left off (if canceled due to exiting the program/CTRL-C) after restarting hellanzb
· post processes all sub directories
· and optionally deletes all processed files after successful post processing (like rars and pars)

· Supports using a faster C based yDecoder (optional). Requires yEnc module for python, available from: http://www.hellanzb.com/hellanzb-content/yenc-0.3.tar.gz
· Supports downloading NZBs with the specified msgid from http://www.newzbin.com
· Mac OS X Growl notification support
· Linux libnotify notification support
· Can optionally log its status to a log file, with automatic rollover & cutoff
· Can optionally run as a daemon process
· Fast Web UI via HellaHella with bookmarklet's for one-click downloading at newzbin
· Automated Episode Downloading with PADS or other Automated Episode Downloaders