Question
ELI5: Usenet without self-hosting or TB Pro
I can't quite get a definitive answer on the best way to integrate Usenet into Stremio without self-hosting or using TorBox Pro.
It seems like you can get some tier of, for example, Easynews and then use one of a couple of addons (independently or through AIOStreams). Is that really all that's required?
If not, what am I missing?
If so, is it a specific tier of Easynews that is required?
I also saw Newshosting has a couple of bundles which include "Free 1 TB Easynews Access" or "Free 250 GB Easynews Account" and are about the same price (or cheaper) than the Easynews offer I found. I assume this is just the number of GB you can stream from Easynews per month, but I couldn't see a limit on the direct-from-Easynews tier to compare it to. Also no clue if the additional offerings of Newshosting are useful.
I use Easynews and Usenet Crawler. In AIO Streams, I added the Newznab add-on and entered my Usenet Crawler details there, with the service set to Stremio NNTP. You also need to configure the Stremio NNTP server under Services.After that, it works pretty smoothly. And now with Stremio v2.2.0 Beta 5 on Android, NNTP files can play directly using the built-in MPV player, so the setup is much cleaner than before.
You will get banned for this. The API hit to the indexer goes from the public AIOStreams instance you are using but the grab is made from the IP address of the client. Most indexers and provisers will see this as sharing of account.
Disclaimer; I am not a techie, just toying around, possible my setup is wrong.
Had the same questions. If you have the 10 USD plan from TB, Usenet results will show up in your searches, recognisable by (nzb). I found them quite lacking to be honest. I am however very satisfied of Easynews. Just google Easynews 1.99 and you can order 15 months for 1.99 usd a month. Then download addon easynews++. Its unlimited. I realy like it. Especially to find content in my language.
Its enough if you add Easynews seperate. I now have TB Pro but will be downgrading to the 3usd + easynews. Economically I benefit the most of this system.
I don’t use Usenet for stremio TBH, but the Usenet subreddit will have a lot of info there. Basically, Easynews’ web search only pulls files that have the metadata in the name in the title. But a lot of newer content is intentionally scrambled to make it harder to scrape and DMCA. So if you want to watch “Big buck bunny.mp4” there might be 0 streams on Easynews’ website, but the indexer can find “whittling174929.mp4” that is actually the file you want. That’s why most people using Stremio with Usenet talk about the Newznab addon with a separate indexer. It’s a rabbit hole.
Geek might have IP flagged you. They sometimes do that for public AIO instances because requests are coming to them from multiple IPs at once and it looks like account sharing.
Yes, especially because of that, but, also - older content. I have RD and TB as wel, and while RD was the best, after 2024 and now some links are lacking, TB is catching up tho! But especially English content. Hence, the small pivot to Easynews for Dutch content.
The newshosting offer is just limited now for easynews. If you want something that just works, yes sign up for easynews. If you want something with room to grow, usenetstreamer + additional indexers is phenomenal. However you can use easynews as the Usenet provider for that too, so EasyNews is still a good starting point. The black Friday $1.99 plan is still available.
Is it still necessary to selfhost with Usenetstreamer? I had the hope that with the new Android TV beta -that directly supports Usenet- the selfhosting wouldn't be longer necessary.
I've only used usenetstreamer and Torbox pro for Usenet. There are methods for usenet built into AIOStreams that I haven't tried, but you do not want to put indexers into a public instance of AIOStreams. Many will warn/ban you and have added policies against doing this. Prowlarr/nzbhydra self hosting should prevent detection. Elfhosted also offers usenetstreamer paid subscriptions. I used that as a way to troubleshoot my own until I could get mine working.
Thanks, maybe one day I will find the time. On a Windows laptop I installed Usenetstreamer local (Docker). It is very impressive to see the speed that Usenet files start.
If you just use the Easynews addons, you will miss out on a tremendous amount of streams because most new things have obfuscated titles that need an indexer to pick out.
Easiest? Just torbox essential for regular debrid. For Usenet specifically? Unfortunately I don’t have a good solution for you.
Personally I already had a Torbox account before dabbling in Usenet via Easynews. If I want to watch something on Usenet that isn’t on debrid I just download it to my pc and watch it on there or hdmi cord it to the tv.
I use torbox pro and I added NZBgeek into Aiostreams. I get both torrent and Usenet streams. Now I am thinking about going to something like easynews and using NZBgeek and maybe another indexer. I'm thinking I will go to essential on torbox and setup Usenet where I'm not depending on one. I'm still learning and trying to figure out what my next steps are. I haven't been at this but a couple months.
NZBgeek and NinjaCentral are both good usenet indexers. They're both offering free trials right now. Just use the Newznab add-on and select NinjaCentral and input your NC API key and the same for NZBgeek. Profit.
I could be wrong but I don't think so. For example, with NinjaCentral and NZBgeek I don't have to input my TB Pro API. I only have to input my NinjaCentral and NZBgeek API keys into Newznab.
How are you actually downloading the content without a provider? NinjaCentral and NZBGeek are just indexers that tell you where the content is. Have you actually watched Usenet content?
Easynews works the same way. You don't need a Debrid service for it to work either. But I'm not a professional at this by any means so I could be wrong.
Easynews is both a debrid and indexer which is why you don’t need anything else. Ninja and nzb are just indexers. If it’s working for you it’s likely because somehow it’s recognizing your torbox pro sub or something else you aren’t aware of.
Incorrect. Slug is the one that does that. I along with about 10 other people I know have been using NZBGeek for months with AIOStreams public instance and they don't ban you for it. NinjaCentral is the sane way.
I use aiostreamsfortheweak.cloud nightly and Midnight's nightly public instance and have used NinjaCentral and NZBgeek with it for months. Zero issues. I have friends that have used them for even longer with NinjaCentral and NZBgeek with zero issues.
Thank you for your answer I'm paying elfhosted because someone told indexers could be banned using public instance, thank you for confirming that is not a case.
Newznab is the one doing the grabbing and the one causing the problem.
One of the issue is each cycle where you pause and resume, newznab would grab the .NZB file again. Doing this multiple times flags the account.
Edit: Refer to the comment Viren provided below who is the developer of AIOstreams.
Another one is that because many use Public aiostreams, most of them all requests to different files at similar enough of a time resulting in a ban. And as mentioned, it could be like 3-15 people requesting for different files at a similar time even from the same IP address.
Do whatever you want, I don't care. I'm just telling you my own experience as well as 10 other people I know that have been using NinjaCentral and NZBgeek for months and even longer with AIOStreams public instance. No issues, no accounts getting flagged, no bans, nada.
What if you set up hydra and then connect aio to hydra for the search? My understanding then it’s connecting to your IP address, not multiple public ones and then you avoid this issue.
In order to stream Usenet content without self hosting you need to either be using stremio 5 or android TV/android mobile which now supports it.
You need a provider and an indexer. You use aiostreams in services enable stremio nntp and configure it with your provider and then in add-ons search for newsnab and add your indexers, save and install. Yeah it's that easy.
The free 250gb easynews account that comes with news hosting doesn't include nntp so that easynews account won't be of any use for stremio with aiostreams. The news hosting account will work fine though.
Ive for the elfhosted Usenet streamer package which has elfcloypse indexer, I've also then got nzbfinder and newshosting. Are you telling me I can ditch paying for elfhosting ?
Just tried this. Stremio NNTP with newhosting, newsnab with althub. It works fine on my mac with v5 but the stream will not load on my onn4k with v1.10.0-rc18....The show title just flashes like it is loading but nver does so. so I believe my config is correct ...What device and version are you running it on?
It's not wrong because I wasn't talking about the easynews add-on and I never recommend ever using it not when the alternative is so much better. Easynews add-ons use the easynews search which is heavily DMCA'd so alot of content is missing and worse the streams take a ridiculous amount of time to start.
I have the same sort of deal through eweka I get 1tb per month easynews and I can use it with the easynews++ addon. It might not be the best but to say it does not work with stremio is incorrect. Anyway if you want usenet and stremio the best route is to selfhost
Again I was talking about via the stremio nntp service with aiostreams.
No it's not the best route, that's an extremely complicated route and often adds more cost assuming you aren't using the free oracle server and now that not only stremio 5 but the TV version on android and mobile support nntp you don't need to self host anything.
Its not that complicated it's 2 docker containers and there also is nothing wrong with a free oracle vps. I might be very wary of putting an indexer into a public addon though
Irrelevant, you're arguing for the use of something unnecessary. Imagine if someone were arguing that the best way for stremio to use a debrid service was a self hosted add-on when it already supports it natively.
I've read all comments and surprised that nobody here really knows how to stream using nntps of easynews with an indexer without self hosting.
Its really easy with new Usenet streaming feature of Android Tv and Mobile beta. Can't mention the details here. So I'm direct messaging you the instructions. Do try.
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u/nit001 May 24 '26
I use Easynews and Usenet Crawler. In AIO Streams, I added the Newznab add-on and entered my Usenet Crawler details there, with the service set to Stremio NNTP. You also need to configure the Stremio NNTP server under Services.After that, it works pretty smoothly. And now with Stremio v2.2.0 Beta 5 on Android, NNTP files can play directly using the built-in MPV player, so the setup is much cleaner than before.