gHacks technology news » mediafire http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Bookmarklet to search file hosts http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/03/bookmarklet-to-search-file-hosts/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/03/bookmarklet-to-search-file-hosts/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:27:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/03/bookmarklet-to-search-file-hosts/ The process to search free file hosts for files is always the same and not dependent on the file host that you would like to search. While it is still possible to fire up Google and enter the search terms and site url manually it is far more convenient to automate the process.

This can be done with a bookmarklet called Free File Host Search (FFHS) available for Firefox and Internet Explorer. A bookmarklet is a piece of code that can be saved as a bookmark and can be used to interact with the user. In this case the bookmarklet displays a form when clicked in which the user can enter the search term he is looking for.

FFHS is simultaneously searching 22 file hosts for that file displaying all results in a normal Google result window. Included are the most popular file hosts such as Rapidshare, Megaupload and Mediafire.

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You add the bookmarklet to your browser by simply dragging and dropping it into the bookmarks toolbar or right-clicking it and selecting to bookmark it. It is also possible to test it by left-clicking it on the authors page.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/03/bookmarklet-to-search-file-hosts/feed/ 3 Search Mediafire for Files http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/02/search-mediafire-for-files/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/02/search-mediafire-for-files/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:38:47 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/02/search-mediafire-for-files/ I was specifically asked by a reader if it was possible to search Mediafire for files like videos, music and applications and you know I can’t say no if one of my reader requests something. Mediafire is a file hosting site like Rapidshare and Megaupload with apparently no storage limitation and a file size limit of 100 Megabyte.

There is no way to browse through the files on Mediafire directly which means that we once again rely on search engines to give us the information that we want. You can use Google, Yahoo and any other search engine that offers a site search.

The basic command for searching sites is “site:url“, for Mediafire it would be “site:mediafire.com” The following is a list of possible commands that reveal lots of files of the type that you specified:

site:mediafire mp3
site:mediafire.com zip
site:mediafire.com avi

It is possible to combine filetypes, just add a | between each file type. This would look like this then:

site:mediafire.com mp3 | ogg

You can also search for specific filenames, just replace the filetype with the filename:

site:mediafire.com e-book

Here are some stats taken from Google. Google has indexed almost 45000 links to mp3 files that are hosted at Mediafire, 20000 zip files, 6200 avi files and 42000 rar files. Not all files are working though. If Mediafire deletes a file it will still be shown for some time in the search engine that you have used.

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