What is NZB file and why it is needed

NZB is a XML-based text file containing meta data about articles posted to Usenet. NZBs contain information such as post date, poster, subject title, etc. These files do not contain anything other than human-readable text, but can be read by clients to find and download binary files from Usenet.

NZB XML-file looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE nzb PUBLIC "-//newzBin//DTD NZB 1.1//EN" "http://www.newzbin.com/DTD/nzb/nzb-1.1.dtd">
<nzb xmlns="http://www.newzbin.com/DTD/2003/nzb">
 <head>
   <meta type="title">Your File!</meta>
   <meta type="tag">Example</meta>
 </head>
 <file poster="Joe Bloggs [email protected]" date="1071674882" subject="Here's your file!  abc-mr2a.r01 (1/2)">
   <groups>
     <group>alt.binaries.newzbin</group>
     <group>alt.binaries.mojo</group>
   </groups>
   <segments>
     <segment bytes="102394" number="1">[email protected]</segment>
     <segment bytes="4501" number="2">[email protected]</segment>
   </segments>
 </file>
</nzb>

These files are needed to download any content from Usenet. Every professional Newsgroup Reader or any other art of Usenet Downloader allows you to search for NZB files or import them from your PC and to start the download process.

NZBFriends is a Search Engine that was developed to index whole Usenet network to give you possiblity to find and save NZB files in fast and simple way!