This is a Grabit tutorial overview. Grabit is a free program to download from the newsgroups. Grabit also gives you the option to search the newsgroups. Only, you have to pay for this per month. This in itself is no problem at all. Yes, you can. Can use free search engines. Such as, example Nzbindex.com or Binsearch.info. Grabit is programmed and developed by Ilan Shemes.
Grabit benefits:
- Very easy to use.
- Built-in function. To be able to repair and extract files automatically.
- You can search the newsgroups. But you have to pay for this option.
Cons Grabit:
- Does not work optimally, with multiple news servers.
- Takes more computing power from your computer. Then for example, the program Sabnzbd or NZBget.
- Processing downloaded headers. Can take a very long time. In practice you hardly use this anymore. Instead, Nzb files are used. You can download these nzb files from various sources. For example from SpotNet websites, NewzNab sites, but also from nzb search engines.
- Can’t extract everything. Grabit is often behind with techniques to hide files in the newsgroups. The program Sabnzbd. And NZBGet don’t have this problem.
General tutorials
- Grabit known error messages and problems. Here you can find known error messages with the solution.
Grabit tutorial Windows overview
This is an overview of tutorials for the Grabit program. These tutorials are aimed only at the operating system Windows Unfortunately, we cannot support every version of Windows. Create a separate user tutorial.
Install and Configure Grabit
In the Windows tutorial below, we will explain it to you. How you can download from the newsgroups. This tutorial is made for Usenet beginners.
The tutorial below are made in an older version of Grabit.
Ubuntu tutorials
Grabit is not available for Ubuntu. It is possible that you use the program Pan.
This program is very similar to Grabit. For more information see http://pan.rebelbase.com/
MacOS tutorial
Install Grabit MacOS
This program is only available for the Windows operating system. If you are using MACos operating system. Then, it is best to use program SABnzbd. Or even better even NZBGet.
