IRC XDCC servers have similar content to many torrent sites, but unlike torrents you don’t seed, just download. You can also automate downloading, see !help in any channel.
IRC Download Servers:
irc.scenep2p.net/6697registration optional#the.lounge#the.source
irc.rizon.net/9999registration optional#elite-chat#elitewarez
irc.abandoned-irc.net/6697registration optional#zw-chat#zombie-warez
irc.abjects.net/9999registraion required, no proxy allowed#mg-chat#moviegods
Recommended Software:
- WeeChat - https://weechat.org/
- iRSSi - https://irssi.org/
- HexChat - https://hexchat.github.io/
- KVIRC - https://www.kvirc.net/
- mIRC - https://www.mirc.com/
General Rules:
- If you don’t know something ask, there are many people at any given time who will help.
- Having multiple nicknames on same account is allowed, as long as not abused.
- If you have a server you can ask to run a xdcc bots in the channels.
- Never try to randomly pm’ing someone, especially if you are new and don’t know anyone.
- Never try to spam/scam/trolll youll get banned faster than you can blink.
- Never create and use multiple accounts to do requests, youll get banned.
- It is highly recommended that you register your nick and use SASL authentication.
IRC Commands:
- User: /nick YourNick
- Register: /msg NickServ REGISTER YourPassword YourEmail
- Identify: /msg NickServ IDENTIFY YourPassword
IRC Channel Commands:
- !help - for all commands available.
- !search or !s - to find any release.
- !request WhatYouWant
- !get or !g - to download release.
XDCC Search Engines:
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This fails to mention the download queues, and the active and passive bots (btw, fuck the channels that don’t follow the expecting naming conventions). If you are behind NAT there are stuff you can’t download because it’s the wrong type of bot.
Oh wow, an xdcc post, let me use the rare opportunity to plug my project: https://github.com/MaggiWuerze/xddcwebloader
Very cool, good job!
Thanks. I built it mostly for subsplease anime releases and just recently learned that there are actual search engines for this, so I’m currently looking into adding an option to integrate search engines of choice
It’s actually not that hard to build your own search engine for specific server/channel.
Not too loud. Don’t want the suits to find out.
Honestly, I think they are preoccupied with other things right now.
Wow. Blast from the past. I see znc is still a thing too
Used to have mIRC downloading music videos on the brand new 56k modem.
Good old days, I remember downloading movies than splitting it into many floppies to share. Once i could get my hands on CDs/DVDs/USBs, collection grew like wildfire, and of course sharing was so much faster. Now I can’t use anything except HDDs/SSDs, just so much easier.
Wait this is still a thing? I remember writing a DCC download bot in arexx on the amiga, back in the mid 90s.
Glad to see the old ways still persist
IRC never left the scene. 😜 I recommend trying at least
scenep2pyou wont regret it.
Guess I’ll have to travel back in time again and check it out. thanks for the writeup
