RapidShare and other 1-click hosters tend to be a real drag if you don’t own a premium account. There’s wait times, slow download speeds, captcha, and one-file-at-a-time limitations that’ll leave you begging to go back to Mininova. Realistically, there’s very little anyone can do to circumvent most of these handicaps (aside from purchasing premium), but at least we can automate the downloading process with some innovative Firefox Greasemonkey userscripts. RS AutoWait is one such script that successfully runs in the background to provide a hands-free approach to free RapidShare downloading. RS Links Checker goes through all of the DDL links on a webpage, displaying if they’re valid or not before you click them.
Getting Started… What You’ll Need:
1.) Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com
2.) Greasemonkey addon - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748
3.) Userscripts - http://userscripts.org
RapidShare / DDL Userscripts
Whether you’re a premium user or a free downloader, here’s some of the better RapidShare scripts to help manage and simplify downloading.
RapidShare AutoWait
— http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38985
Now here’s a script that actually does what it should! Simply visit your favourite Release Blog, RapidShare forum or DDL site (ScnSrc.net & Warez-bb.org will do nicely) and load up various RapidShare links in different browser tabs. Feel free to go to outside, sleep or work - AutoWait will handle the rest. It bypasses all of RapidShare’s error messages (download limit reached; your IP address is already downloading a file; no free slots for free users) and proceeds to automatically click the download button for you, once it’s jumped you through the various RS hurdles.
TIPS: To fully optimize AutoWait into downloading without any further intervention (and thus avoid the “What should Firefox do with this file?” popup message) - in Firefox simply go into Tools > Options… and click the ‘Applications‘ tab. Scroll down to your application that handles RAR and ZIP files (i.e. WinRAR) and select “Save File” (instead of “Always Ask”).
Also make sure you’ve already set up a download location, and select the ”Save files to” option. You can do this in the ‘Main‘ tab:
RapidShare Links Checker
— http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9467
RapidShare Links Checker is not exclusive to just RS links, but covers many other popular 1-click hoster links, as well. It can check hundreds of RapidShare, MegaUpload and FileFactory links in a split of a second. A total must-have script for just about everywhere you can find DDL links - it adds a tiny green checkmark for valid links. When a link is dead the text-decoration of the link is changed to
NEW UPDATES - Feb 18/09:
- — rapidshare.com - size and name of files is shown on mouseover.
- — megaupload.com and filefactory.com - size and name of files is shown on mouseover.
- — the script is now functional on Google Reader.
- — megaupload international support (links like www.megaupload.com/es/
- — megaupload international support (links like www.megaupload.com/es/
- — rapidshare support for this link type - http://rsXXXX.rapidshare.com/files/ddd/XXX
- — megarotic.com is now supported
The Cavern Links Checker
— http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29222
The Cavern is another link-checker script for a vast assortment of DDL sites: rapidshare.com, badongo.com, depositfiles.com, easyshare.com, filefactory.com, mediafire.com, megashare.com, megashares.com, megaupload.com, netload.in, rapidshare.de, uploaded.to, uploading.com, ziddu.com, zshare.net. It even notifies you about possible problematic redirector URLs (tinyurl):
Rapidshare Collectors/Premium Zone Tweak
— http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32809
This script enables mass delete of files from the Remote Upload area. The new system is irritating and wastes a lot of time on constant clicking to delete each remote upload job one by one. This script automates that. Simply enter the remote upload area, and click on the ‘Delete All’ button. Sit back and watch the jobs disappear gradually. Here’s a screenshot.
Megaupload Auto-fill Captcha
— http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38736
Tired of having to type in those 4 characters at MegaUpload just to find out you still have to wait to download the file? Well, before yesterday - this script worked marvelously! It appears that MegaUpload has made their captcha more difficult to read (for this script, at least), so we’re holding our breath on a quick fix. It’s a great script when combined with the MegaUpload Helper (it automatically begins the download after the countdown has expired) - we should note this is also broken as of yesterday. Argh, MegaUpload!
RSFind!
— http://rsfind.googlepages.com
RSFind! isn’t actually a Greasemonkey script at all, but an add-on for Firefox. It allows you to copy all of the DDL links displayed in a webpage to the ‘clipboard’ - in order to batch export them into a download manager, such as jDownloader. RSFind! currently supports 21 different 1-click hosters - including rapidshare.com, rapidshare.de, megaupload.com, filefactory.com and mediafire.com.
How it works: Simply install the add-on, restart Firefox - you’ll now notice a red & black icon for RSFind in the bottom right corner of the Firefox taskbar. Now load up a release blog page or RapidShare/warez forum where links are contained, and either click on the “R” icon or right-click and select RSFind! A popup window will open which contains all of DDL links from the webpage. Click ‘Select All’ and ‘OK’ - they are now copied to the clipboard, ready for pasting.
TIP: Lastly, keep all of your scripts up-to-date with the Userscripts Updater script.
a/s/l Says:
a superb and comprehensive post sharky. now to follow it up with the best rapidshare forums
Diji1 Says:
Wow, another excellent post Sharky - that is just excellent stuff.
Sceneleechers Says:
Nice one Sparky
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marshall Says:
How to add script in grease monkey pls help….
aroy Says:
Well tried this one out, didn’t work 4 me
with the youtubeHD and rapidshare script
it turned my normal downloads from MU
10 times slower
after deleting the add on back to normal speed
(700Mb content within 8 min. fastest that is)
Velocityy Says:
RapidShare is alright, however, torrents are 50x better than RapidShare. You get faster speeds and content is available on demand.
Rapidshare Search Files Says:
very useful informations!
Thanks!
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Can I use some of your information from your article if I post a link back to you from my site?