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[Hellanzb](https://github.com/pjenvey/hellanzb) is a console based Usenet binary downloader written in Python. It can be run in daemon mode and several GUI or PHP frontends are available.

**Note:** hellanzb is no longer under active development, although the last release (0.13) is considered stable by the developers and testing team.

## Contents

*   [1 Main Features](#Main_Features)
*   [2 Installing](#Installing)
*   [3 Configuration](#Configuration)
    *   [3.1 hellanzb.conf](#hellanzb.conf)
    *   [3.2 /etc/conf.d/hellanzb](#.2Fetc.2Fconf.d.2Fhellanzb)

## Main Features

*   Automatically downloads nzb files placed in a user-specified watch directory.
*   Par1/2 verification and repair of damaged files.
*   Unrars completed downloads.
*   Deletes unneeded files after a download has been completed.

## Installing

Hellanzb is available in the [AUR](/index.php/AUR "AUR") package [hellanzb-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hellanzb-git/).

## Configuration

Hellanzb can be run in two modes:

*   From CLI
*   As daemon

##### hellanzb.conf

A configuration file named hellanzb.conf must be present in the users .config directory for hellanzb to function properly. A sample configuration file is available.

```
mkdir -p ~/.config
cp /etc/hellanzb.conf.sample ~/.config/hellanzb.conf

```

##### /etc/conf.d/hellanzb

When run in daemon mode, the */etc/conf.d/hellanzb* file needs to be modified to configure the user that will be running hellanzb

```
HELLANZB_USER="username"
HELLANZB_CONF="/home/${HELLANZB_USER}/.config/hellanzb.conf"

```