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Free File Hosting Downloader

Martin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:39:54 +0000

Free file hosting downloaders are programs that make it more comfortable to download files from file hosting websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, SaveFile or Mediafire. These programs usually offer a handful of advantages with the most important ones being the ability to bypass all the advertisement that is posted on those websites and to queue files without having to sit in front of the computer system to activate the download once the time limits ran out.

FreeRapid Downloader is a downloader for several dozens free file hosting websites. It uses a plugin based system to enable support for the different file hosting websites. These plugins are automatically checked and updated from within the program’s interface.

One interesting aspect of the file hosting downloader is that it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac if Java is installed on the computer systems. There are multiple ways of getting links into the downloader. The downloader automatically monitors the clipboard to become active whenever a link that is pointing to a file hosting website is copied into the clipboard. That’s a very comfortable way of handling downloads unless multiple links need to be added to the software program.

The second option is available in the program itself. It is possible to copy one or multiple links into the interface which are then processed by the software. The free file hosting downloader will then automatically start downloading files that are in its queue. It can check for availability and will display an error message if files are not available anymore.

The options are quite extensive ranging from automatic update options to proxy servers to alerts and error handling. The main benefit of using this program is its simplicity. It works really well and the only downside that users might find is the missing support for premium accounts that are offered by some of the file hosting websites. FreeRapid Downloader can be downloaded from the developer’s website. Check out the Rapidshare Search article for some options to search the popular file hosting website.

Automatically Download Files From Rapidshare In Firefox

Martin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:28:34 +0000

Users who download regularly from the popular file host Rapidshare usually use a download manager like JDownloader or Cryptload to do so. These download managers provide several benefits over downloading files from Rapidshare in a web browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer. The most important benefit being the ability to queue an unlimited number of files in the Rapidshare Download Manager which are then download sequentially without further user interaction.

Rapidshare AutoWait is a userscript that can be loaded in the Firefox Greasemonkey extension. It brings most of the benefit that is provided by download managers to the web browser. In short: It allows a user to open multiple Rapidshare links which get then downloaded sequentially without user interaction.

The script will automatically perform all required actions on the page after it has been opened in Firefox. It will also detect if a download is already in progress to loop the other Rapidshare downloads which are then started at a later time.

The script does detect network problems and handles other possible errors like expired sessions or the 15 minute limits as well. It is not a problem for the script to handle 10, 20 or even 30 tabs that all point to a file on the Rapidshare website. The only step that the script will not do is to close the tab once the download has been finished which is not that much of a problem though.

AutoWait is a very interesting option for users who download files regularly from Rapidshare. Check out our Rapidshare Search article for pointers on how to find links at the the file host. It is possible that the script will also work in other web browsers that provide userscript support such as Opera or Safari.

Tags: file host, firefox, greasemonkey, rapidshare, rapidshare download, rapidshare search, userscripts, web browser

Rapidshare Downloader RapidWareX Updated

Martin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:03:28 +0000

Downloaders for the popular file hosting website Rapidshare seem to be very popular software development projects. They usually come with the same feature set allowing Rapidshare users to queue up downloads, setup Rapidshare premium accounts and import text links pointing to Rapidshare downloads.

RapidWareX was recently updated with the ability to stream audio and video directly from the Rapidshare servers. This new feature is currently only working with video files that have been encoded with the Divx codec and audio files that have the mp3 file extension. The video can consist of a single avi file, a collection of uncompressed and unencrypted rar archives or a collection of HJSplit files.

The Rapidshare Downloader requires a working Rapidshare account to download or stream files from the file hoster. That’s a bit unfortunate and a distinct disadvantage in comparison to other Rapidshare download managers such as the Rapidshare download manager JDownloader.

Links can be added to RapidWareX in various ways including copying pasting them directly in the application, pasting html from the clipboard or loading links from files that are stored on the local computer system. Quite a few options are available that make the downloading process more comfortable. The program can retry downloads, display the remaining download traffic, offers a remote interface and secure links over https.

The program offers a build in Rapidshare search module which will redirect the requests to a website that is displaying the search results. RapidWareX is a free download for the Windows operating system and requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 to run.

Tags: jdownloader, rapidshare, rapidshare downloader, rapidshare search, rapidwarex, windows software

Rapidshare Download Accelerator

Martin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:17:32 +0000

We have covered Rapidshare search tips and Rapidshare tools like Rapidshare Download Manager or Rapidshare Links Downloader before and the Rapidshare Download Accelerator adds itself to the impressive list of useful tools to make the most of the file hosting service. The software program is portable but requires the Microsoft .net Framework to be installed.

The tool accepts links to Rapidshare files which can be either pasted one by one or posted as a batch into the interface of the Rapidshare downloader. The tool will automatically display the added files in the list of downloads that are to be processed. There is only one further step that the user has to make before the downloads can be started: A one time configuration of the local download directory.

It surely cannot get easier than this. A click on the Start button will initiate the download of the first file in the list. The Rapidshare downloader will display the file name, status, download speed, downloaded size and total size of the current download in the interface. Completed files are added to the Files Finished list to provide an overview of the downloaded files to the user of the software program.

The wait time between downloads can take up to 15 minutes and the usual limitations apply. The software does not provide the means to reset the IP of the computer to be able to download additional files or to make use of premium accounts to use faster download speeds and experience less wait times and limitations.

The software (via Eches) can be downloaded from the developers website.

Tags: file host, portable software, rapidshare, rapidshare download, rapidshare downloader, rapidshare search, rapidshare software, windows software

Rapidstack Realtime Rapidshare Search Engine

Martin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:45:27 +0000

Rapidshare is still offering one of the most popular file hosting services on the Internet despite the recent changes to the core system that have capped the downloads for premium users at 2.66 Gigabytes per day.

Rapidstack (via Download Squad) is a realtime Rapidshare Search Engine. What does that mean? Unlike many other Rapidshare search engines it will scan the links before they are displayed in the search results. Only links that are found to be working will be listed while all others will be excluded from the list.

The interface is making use of Ajax to display new results as soon as they have been scanned by the search engine. Rapidstack will display the amount of total links as well as the good and bad ones. Each search result displays the title, url and the amount of links that have been found.

The search results provide access to two functions. The first is to click on the title of a search result to visit the website that is linking to Rapidshare. The second is to extract all Rapidshare links on that specific page of the website. This will open a list of Rapidshare links which can be comfortably pasted into a Rapidshare download software.

It is interesting to note that Rapidstack seems to concentrate on websites that post links to Rapidshare unlike many other Rapidshare search engines that post direct links.

Tags: download rapidshare, rapidhsare links, rapidshare, rapidshare download, rapidshare files, rapidshare search, search engine

Rapid Download

Martin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:02:28 +0000

Rapid Download is a fast, portable and lightweight Rapidshare download manager that can automatically download a batch of files from Rapidshare. It will automatically fetch all download links that are contained in a file called download.txt that has to reside in the same directory. While that procedure might seem uncomfortable as it requires copying and pasting links into the text document it is not that more complicated compared to tools that automatically fetch the url when opening a download page in the web browser.

The Rapidshare downloader has been designed with simplicity and speed in mind. All you need to do besides pasting a few Rapidshare links into the download.txt document is to execute the main application rapiddownload.exe. That’s it: Rapid Download will do everything automatically from that point on. This includes checking if the files are still available on the Rapidshare website, scanning for the real download link, running down the wait countdown and finally downloading the files to the local computer.

The software program comes with zero configuration options at this point. This means no Rapidshare Premium account usage, no timers, setting a download path or anything else that might distract from the number one goal: Downloading files from Rapidshare.

Simply paste in your links, execute the tool and let it run until it is finished. Yes, it could do better with some configuration options which would make it more comfortably but if need to download files fast you might want to give it a try. Make sure to check out our Rapidshare Search article that helps you find files to download.

Tags: automatic rapidshare downloads, rapid download, rapidshare, rapidshare download, rapidshare downloader, rapidshare files, rapidshare search, rapidshare software

Access Rapidshare Even If It Is Banned

Martin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:14:08 +0000

If you are in the position to have access to a network that has banned Rapidshare but is otherwise pretty lax when it comes to restrictions you might want to bypass the ban to be able to download from Rapidshare. I would not advise doing that at work or school because it can have serious consequences. Still, if you want to try if it is working you might want to head over to the Mozilla website and install the Download Rapidshare @ Office add-one for the web browser.

It is not yet another proxy if that is what you thought. The add-on merely lookups the IP of the Rapidshare download page and uses that to initiate the download. If the network administrator has only banned Rapidshare.com in the network then it will work.

If he did ban the IP range as well it won’t. Once installed the add-on adds a toolbar with an option to paste a Rapidshare link into it. Pasting the link into it and pressing the button next to the toolbar will change the url so that the IP is used for accessing the download page.

A Javascript window will be launched once the IP has been converted which will immediately display the download dialog. It seems to also be an excellent shortcut to download Rapidshare files even if the file hoster is not banned in the network.

The Firefox add-on is experimental which means that you have to log into the Mozilla website before you can download it. You find a list of Rapidshare Search engines by following the link.

Tags: firefox, firefox-add on, firefox-extension, rapidshare, rapidshare banned, rapidshare download, rapidshare firefox, rapidshare search

Rapidshare Links Downloader

Martin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:42:12 +0000

Rapidshare Links point to files that are hosted on the Rapidshare file hosting site. We have already shown you how to validate those links with the Rapidshare Links Checker without leaving the page the links are listed on. Many downloaders for Rapidshare have been developed and are currently available on the Internet. One of them is the Russian tool Raptor which proves to be a bit problematic at the beginning due to its Russian default language.

The language can only be changed in the options once the application has been installed which means that users will have to find their way through the Russian installation dialogs. That’s not a huge problem though for users who have installed hundreds of applications in the past.

The two images below demonstrate how to change the language from Russian to English.

Some elements of the interface will remain in Russian though but that is nothing to worry about. A list of Rapidshare links can be added to the Rapidshare downloader by clicking on the + icon in the top navigation menu. Other options include the ability to simply use [CTRL V] to paste them into the program’s interface.

The downloader will automatically download the selected files from Rapidshare. It is possible to add proxies in the application but it can practically be left running in the background because it does not require user interaction after starting the downloads.

The article Rapidshare Search might help you find some interesting websites that contain links to files that are hosted on Rapidshare.

Tags: file host, rapidshare, rapidshare download, rapidshare links, rapidshare search, raptor, windows software

Rapidshare Links Checker

Martin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:42:20 +0000

Greasemonkey scripts can really increase the usability of a web browser which is especially true for scripts that improve a day to day activity. If you regularly search for and download files at Rapidshare you might have felt the frustration when a link was not working anymore. Most Rapidshare Search sites and search engines give no indication if a link is valid or expired.

The Cavern Links Checker has been developed as a links checker for the Cavern’s forum but has been expanded since then to check links anywhere on the Internet pointing to various file hosts like Rapidhsare, Megashare or Megaupload.

A total of 13 different file hosters are currently supported by the script. Since the link checker works on every Internet site it comes in handy for users who use search engines to find files on sites like Rapidshare but also for users who frequent forums or websites with their own databases.

Firefox users will have to download and install the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox before installing the user script. Google Chrome users can take a look at the Google Chrome Greasemonkey article while Opera users can do the same at Greasemonkey in Opera. Internet Explorer users might want to take a look at Trixie to add Greasemonkey support.

Tags: file search, firefox, google chrome, greasemonkey, opera, rapidshare, rapidshare files, rapidshare links checker, rapidshare search, userscripts

Rapidshare Links Checker

Martin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:21:03 +0000

Yesterdays post about a new Rapidshare Search engine seemed to have caused that much load on the reviewed website that it was taken offline. One of the interesting features of this new search engine was that it was able to check the validity of links. Everyone who ever used Rapidshare before knows that links come and go and that it happens many times that links have expired and lead into Nirvana.

Rapidshare Tool is a Rapidshare Links Checker for Firefox that can do the same thing and more. It adds a subtle button to the Firefox status bar which shines in light green whenever Rapidshare links have been discovered on a website. The link checker can then be activated by pressing the keyboard combination [ALT F9] or by right-clicking the Rapidshare status bar icon and selecting Link Checker from the available options.

The Rapidshare links checker works pretty fast. It never took longer than a few seconds to check all links on a website. Valid links will be shown with a green dot while expired links can be identified by a red dot. Encrypted http links are also identified and checked by the tool. Encrypted meaning basic encryption like changing http to hxxp or hyyp.

All links – or only the valid ones – can be copied to the clipboard or saved in a file which is excellent for users who use a Rapidshare download manager of sorts to download files from Rapidshare.

Rapidshare Tool for Firefox works surprisingly well even though it is an experimental add-on meaning that only users with an account at Mozilla can download and install the add-on at the moment.

The Firefox add-on provides an interesting option for hardcore Rapidshare users who regularly download files from the file hoster.

Tags: firefox, firefox-add on, firefox-extension, rapidshare, rapidshare links, rapidshare links checker, rapidshare search, rapidshare tool

Crawl Rapidshare In Real Time

Martin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:29:19 +0000

You find two Rapidshare Search sites on the Internet. The first is using a custom Google search engine effectively making use of what Google has already indexed which also means that many links will be outdated and not working because of the time difference between indexation and the user search. The second type of websites maintain their own Rapidshare database that gets regularly updated with new links and cleaned by dedicated staff and users of the site. These sites usually make the better choice but provide less hits when searching for specific files.

The new search engine Crawl Rapidshare (via Technospot) tries to raise the bar by providing real time search results that are automatically checked by a script to inform the user if a link is not working anymore. It still makes use of search engines to populate the search results but it does add the real time results and the file checking as added services that makes the Rapidshare service more usable than most other websites that offer a similar one.

The option to check the links has to be enabled by checking the Check Links Validity box beneath the search form. It will slow down the search because every link will be checked first and then listed on the page. The file size of working links will also be displayed next to the name of the file which is another useful information.

Tags: crawl rapidshare, rapid share, rapidshare, rapidshare file search, rapidshare files, rapidshare search, search rapidshare

Rapidshare Files

Martin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:04:38 +0000

Rapidshare is still one of the most popular file hosting solutions on the Internet although their latest changes to the system have angered many long time users of the service. The reduction of the daily download quota for Rapidshare premium users and the speed decrease for free users are the two main points that have angered many Rapidshare users.

Users have many different options to find files that are hosted on Rapidshare. Some of these methods include the use of specific Google search parameters that will only search Rapidhshare for the files and file types that the user specified in the search.

Other options include so called Rapidshare Search Engines which maintain their own database of files that are hosted at the file hoster. They usually keep the databases up to date and link directly to Rapidshare for easy file access.

There is another type of site that is offering Rapidshare searches, not nearly as effective as the sites that maintain their own database. So called Google custom search engines do nothing else than to combine the advanced search parameters of Google with a custom search engine that is bringing in revenue for the creator of the search engine. They can normally be identified by looking at the search button. If that button states Google Search you know that it is a custom Google search and not a website with its own database.

If you want to find Rapidshare files you can use the following Rapidshare search engines that all use their own database.

Rapidshare Files

Rapidshare Search Engine [link]
One Click Files[link]
Mega Download [link]
File Crop [link]
Rapid TVPHP [link]
Files Tube [link]
Rapidzilla [link]
RS Rapidshares [link]
RS Find [link]
Rapidshare Data [link]

It is easy to find hundreds of Rapidshare files search engines on the Internet but most of them provide no benefit over a normal Google search. Those ten websites in the list are unique.

Tags: file hoster, hosting, rapidshare, rapidshare files, rapidshare search, rapidshare search engines

Rapidshare Downloading Tool For Premium Users

Martin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:48:39 +0000

The creator of RapidWareX send me an email about his new Rapidshare Downloading Tool for premium users that he developed and published at Google Code. The first public beta was released just two days ago and it already received some acknowledgment from various websites.

The difference between this Rapidshare tool and many others is that it requires a Rapidshare Premium Account to function. Users without one cannot use it in this state. It’s a pretty advanced application for a 0.1 beta release. The menu and design looks clean and everything works well and without errors.

The username and password of a Rapidshare Premium Account have to be entered into the application before the other options become available. The software program supports simultaneous downloads from Rapidshare, a traffic check of the remaining free traffic of the account and day and secure login using https connections.

The program obviously supports a download queue. Links can be added by pasting them into the program interface or importing them from a link list. Links can also be exported to share them on the Internet.

RapidWareX requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 to run. A list of Rapidshare Search Engines can be found here at Ghacks.

Tags: rapidshare, rapidshare downloader, rapidshare premium accounts, rapidshare search, rapidwarex

Rapidshare Reduces Premium User Download Limit

Martin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:56:41 +0000

The file hoster Rapidshare seems to have seen a huge increase in premium users, those users that pay for the service to receive a faster transfer rate and other comfort functions, since they introduced the new system that saw a removal of the captchas but a introduction of a speed limit for guest users.

Premium users who never had to endure the Rapidshare captchas received a ten Gigabyte per day download limit after the changes which was now reduced to four Gigabytes per day during a so called transition period where Rapidshare will increase their server capacities to meet the increased demand.

This in turn could mean that they will raise the limit to ten Gigabytes once the transition period is over. Most premium users will probably not realize the change but it will definitely affect Rapidshare power users who download many Gigabytes per day from the file hoster.

A selection of Rapidshare Search Engines may help users who are trying to find files that are hosted at Rapidshare.

Tags: file hosting, file hosts, rapidshare, rapidshare search, rapidshare search engines

Rapidshare English

Martin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:51:19 +0000

Rapidshare English is a test post that tries to find out how this post will rank in the search engines. It does contain information about Rapidshare though, feel free to add your comments. As you all know Rapidshare is displaying the correct language for the user who is navigating to the website. I’m not sure which method they use but it is definitely not an IP check. So it’s either the browser’s language or the language of the operating system.

Let me give you a short introduction to explain the basic concept of Rapidshare in English. Rapidshare is a file hoster which every user in the world can use to upload files with a maximum file size of 200 Megabytes. A link is generated after the download that can be given to friends or posted on websites.

Everyone can download files with a size of up to 200 Megabytes but only Premium users, those who paid for a Rapidshare account, can upload and download files with a size greater than 200 Megabytes. The download speed for anonymous users is limited which has caused some controversy lately.

You can check out my other posts if you want to search Rapidshare for files and need some search engines to do so.

I hope you liked that little Rapidshare English introduction.

Update: 16 Minutes after posting this article about Rapidshare English I’m ranking third on Google for that term.

Tags: file host, rapidshare, rapidshare english, rapidshare search

Rapidshare finally gets rid of Captchas

Martin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:07:48 +0000

Rapidshare finally decided to get rid of the Captcha images that were displayed to non-registered users who tried to download a file from the file hoster. Many users had problems to identify the correct characters that were shown in the Captcha to proceed with the file download. The reason for the change of heart is unknown but maybe it was the user protests that made them change their minds.

This makes Rapidshare easier to use for free users. On the downside the maximum file transfer speed has been reduced to 500 Kilobit, yes that’s bit not byte, which usually means longer download times.

Premium users still face the 10 Gigabytes per day limit but unused bandwidth is carried over to the next day up to a maximum of 50 Gigabytes.

Getting rid of the captchas was definitely the right move to unclutter the website and reduce the amount of complaints about the service. The speed limit won’t really affect many users. Power users will use Premium accounts and everyone else will have the patience to wait for the downloads to finish anyway.

Tags: file host, rapidshare, rapidshare captchas, rapidshare search

Rapidshare Happy Hours

Martin — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:27:49 +0000

Rapidshare have implemented a new captcha for some time that asks the user to enter four out of x letters that have a cat (others have a similar looking picture of a dog with a smaller head) in the background. This new captcha is confusing to users and many have decided that it is not worth the trouble.

One solution is to wait for the so called Rapidshare Happy Hours which allow downloading without filling out the captchas and no waiting time if the servers can handle the download. Rapidshare Happy Hours are active between 0:00 – 18:00 UTC+1 on Mondays to Fridays and 0:00 – 14:00 UTC+1 on Saturdays and Sundays.

If you are a heavy Rapidshare user you might find the Firefox add-on Happy Checker useful which notifies the user when the Rapidshare Happy Hour is active. I think that it should not be to hard to memorize the Happy Hour times and download from Rapidshare in those times only without installing yet another Firefox extension.

If you are looking for files on Rapidshare you might find my Rapidshare Search article useful as well.

Tags: file host, rapidshare, rapidshare happy hours, rapidshare search

Copy all Rapidshare Links with Rapidshare Find

Martin — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:35:46 +0000

If you are a regular on Rapidshare you probably use a download manager to download files from Rapidshare that ensure good speeds and make it possible to download files from Rapidshare without having to use their website interface at all. Nothing beats adding lots of links to the download manager instead of having to sit at your pc all day waiting for the time limits to expire.

Rapidshare Find could be of aid to you as well. The whole purpose of this Firefox add-on is to copy Rapidshare links (and links from other file hosters) found on websites. These links can be copied to the clipboard and are then either automatically picked up by a Rapidshare download manager or by manually adding them to the queue of that download manager.

The add-on offers another option instead of copying the Rapidshare links to the clipboard. It is possible to open all selected links in separate tabs. I don’t like this option that much because it means that you still have to endure the wait timer at Rapidshare, the download manager (like USDownload) is a far better option.

The add-on adds a button to the status bar. If you click that button the add-on will compile a list of all available links and present them in a popup window. Select the links that you would like to copy (or open) and click on OK.

Rapidshare Find supports 15 websites that host files including Rapidshare, Megashare and Sendspace. Each of them can be checked to be included in the parsing of the website.

I previously compiled a list of Rapidshare Search engines which could be used as a starting point to search Rapidshare.

Tags: rapidshare, rapidshare find, rapidshare search, usdownloader

Efficient Rapidshare file search

Martin — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:18:02 +0000

Just a quick rapidshare trick to find valid files and less already deleted ones. Just add to your searches the following: -forbidden -inactivity -found -deleted

This ensures that most pages with invalid files will be removed from your search results. Thanks to X3r0X from governmentsecurity.org for this tip.

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