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Use wget with Your Rapidshare Account

Submitted by on July 8, 2012 – 10:40 pm 6 Comments

If you have a Rapidshare premium account, you can use wget to download files. The process is two-fold: first, you need to use wget with your Rapidshare username and password to obtain and store the Rapidshare cookie; then, you can use wget with the cookie file to download a list of links.

To get you started, I put together a simple script. Save the script below as ~/wgetrs.sh ; chmod 755 ~/wgetrs.sh ; ln -s ~/wgetrs.sh /usr/local/bin/wgetrs And then run it like so: wgetrs

Theis the location and name of the text file containing the list of rapidshare links you wish to download, one link per line.

Example: wgetrs user1 mypassword ~/rslinks.txt

#!/bin/bash
#
# krazyworks.com
# 2012-07-08
# Igor Os
#
# Usage: ./wgetrs.sh   
#

linkfile=""

if [ ! -f "${linkfile}"]
then
    echo "Input file ${linkfile} not found. Exiting..."
fi

for i in rapidshare_cookie_tmp rapidshare_cookie
do
    if [ -f ~/.${i} ]
    then
        /bin/rm -f ~/.${i}
    fi
done

/usr/bin/wget -O ~/.rapidshare_cookie_tmp "https://api.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rsapi.cgi?sub=getaccountdetails&withcookie=1&login=&password="
grep "^cookie" ~/.rapidshare_cookie_tmp | awk -F'=' '{print $2}' > ~/.rapidshare_cookie

/usr/bin/wget -c --no-cookies --header="Cookie: enc=`cat ~/.rapidshare_cookie`" -i "${linkfile}" -nc

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6 Comments »

  • nyyankees1123 says:
    March 21, 2013 at 11:38 pm

    I have a rapidshare premium account. I want to download files from rapidshare using dap. But it gives only a web page when downloaded. Please help me out.

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  • Michael C says:
    March 26, 2013 at 1:36 am

    Is it possible to purchase a rapidshare premium account through paypal? Or is it solely with a credit card?

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  • xiM Clutch says:
    March 28, 2013 at 1:55 pm

    I am using someone else’s rapidshare premium account. The owner gave it to me for 3 days to use it, but I wouldn’t like him to find out what have I downloaded. It’s a bit personal, you see…

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  • Kaylla says:
    March 29, 2013 at 1:10 am

    How do you download as many files (EX: Video Files) you want from a file share site (Rapidshare, Rapidgator, etc) without buying a premium account ?

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  • Hotshot t says:
    March 29, 2013 at 8:21 am

    Hi
    I have Rapidshare Premium Account but when I download few files from Rapidshare with Internet Download Manager, it doesn’t download more files.
    And when I open link of the file with the browser, it doesn’t open.
    I should restart the computer to download the files.
    What is the problem?
    Thanks

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  • Victoria T says:
    March 30, 2013 at 10:25 pm

    Download speed for Rapidshare premium and free membership isn’t any different. I can’t download two or more files at a time. Not a problem. I have to wait minutes before each download. Not a problem. I would consider buying the RS premium account only if it is much speeder than free membership.

    Is there anything else I can get for the premium membership?

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