Download Rapidshare using Wget

Well, I've been looking for long time since Hardy Heron, but it is not yet written. Then after Intrepid Ibex comes out, walla~! there is a script which could be used to download rapidshare files(by using premium accounts) by using lightweight download manager built in almost all Linux Machine - WGET.

Well, to get this started - for those who still using the old version of Ubuntu such as Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon or Hardy Heron, you might wanna check your WGET version. Make sure it is 1.10.2 above else you wont be able to use this tutorial.

First, you need to make a folder for this. Better to make a new folder to organized all your rapid download files in one spot. After creating a folder, move into the new folder and we are about to begin the process there. Here is the code to make and move into the new folder:

mkdir rapiddownload ; cd rapiddownload

After that, create a script file with .sh at the end. For example getcookies.sh:

touch getcookies.sh

Then we are going to copy and paste a command to get and save cookies into ~/.cookies/rapidshare file. To do this, all you need to do is copy and paste the code below into your getcookies.sh file. To open text editor just use command below:

nano getcookies.sh

The code you need to copy and paste is below(make sure you change USERNAME and PASSWORD with your own premium rapidshare information):

#!/bin/bash
wget \
--save-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare \
--post-data "login=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD" \
--no-check-certificate \
-O - \
https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/premiumzone.cgi \
> /dev/null

After finish paste the code, please save and exit the editor. Make sure you save before exiting or there won't be any code inside getcookies.sh.

Then we start working on the script which you will use to download. Create a script file name download.sh:

touch download.sh

And copy the script into download.sh file. Remember to open it using your convenient text editor.

nano download.sh

And paste the script below:

#!/bin/bash
wget -c --load-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare $1

After doing this, save and exits. We are finish with codes, so all you need to do is make it executable. To make both files executable, run 'chmod' command with '+x' flag.

chmod +x {getcookies.sh,download.sh}

TO START DOWNLOADING - To start your download, first you need to run ONCE the getcookies.sh file so that cookies will be stored and will be use by download.sh everytime you want to download from rapidshare. To run getcookies.sh below is the command:

./getcookies.sh

Now to start downloading, just use this command:

./download.sh http://urls.of.your.rapidshare.download.com/whatever

So, this is it. i hope you find this tutorial useful. And before I forget, I get this information from a website named my-guides.net. They have a lot of other information about linux. Pay a visits there to learn a lot of cool things.

DISADVANTAGE:

• People could see your premium username and password once they hold on to your machine. So please use at your own risk.

BELOW IS THE EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL DOWNLOAD