Here in this tutorial i am going to discuss about how to use wget to download files from rapidshare easily.
I am writing this tutorial because when i wanted to download multiple files from rapidshare i found the
easiest way was to use wget than any other material. Also there wasn’t any tutorial available which
clearly explains step by step process. So i thought this piece of information might be useful for many users.
Here I am going to explain how to use it in linux systems and for windows users i am planning to write
another tutorial separately.

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NOTE: This procedure works only if you have a RAPIDSHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT. if you dont have one
this tutorial is not for you. Use it at your own risk.
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First Step:-

The first step is to analyze how a rapidshare download works. The concept behind it is for every download
it needs a session authenticated user cookie which refers to the users rapidshare premium account. so we
are going to see how to download the cookie first from rapidshare site.

The command for downloading the cookie from rapidshare site is:-

Linuxidiot@Nerdplanet ~]$ wget --no-check-certificate --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data="login=$username&password=$password" https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/premiumzone.cgi

As you can see from the above command there are two variable which you have to pass and they are
$username= rapidshare username
$password= rapidshare password

Either you can type the command exactly as mentioned above in your shell only replacing the username
and password with your real rapidshare premium account details. The other way is to use the script which
i have provided a download link below.

once the command is executed what happens is that it creates a file called cookies.txt which contains your
user account details. The cookie file looks something similar like this

# HTTP cookie file.
# Generated by Wget on 2007-08-03 22:42:05.
# Edit at your own risk.

.rapidshare.com TRUE / FALSE 1236540000 user 1234567-%72%61%70%31%32%33

If you dont see similar information in your cookie either your username or password is wrong.
here it starts with .rapidshare.com and then a big number and then 1234567 (which would be your premium
account number) followed by the Encrypted string which is your password.

Awrite now, we are going good and we have downloaded the cookie to our system. the next step is downloading. To download we must have the cookies.txt file in the same location from where the wget command is to be run. for example if you are going to run the command from /root home directory then you should have the cookies.txt file in the same location or else it wont work. Before proceeding to downloading part we have got a second step to be configure in the rapidshare site.

Second Step:-

Go to the rapidshare.com site and click on premium login, once you logged in you should see your account settings. In that click the options.

options > check direct downloads <-------- enable this option else it wont work

options > preffered mirror system > random selection <---------- enable this option for both mirrors

Then click on the save button, thats it you are done.

Awrite we have approached the final step for downloading. Thats the third step:-

Third step:-

The command for downloading the files from rapidshare using wget is

Linuxidiot@Nerdplanet ~]$ wget -v --load-cookies "cookies.txt" http://rapidshare.com/files/9771500/Hide.My.IP.v1.6.rar

One thing to remeber is you should not leave redundant space between the words, and it should be as exactly as typed above. The wget command loads the cookies.txt file and starts your download. This should work fine, but it is really tedious to copy paste the above command every time with new link. so we make our job easier by automating the whole process using a bash script.

Final Step:-

Here am going to explain how the script does the job . The script uses positional parameters to get the file name which contains only the links in it and it automatically downloads the files with the links you have provided. first lets see whats there in the script.

cat $1 | while read line
do
echo `wget -v --load-cookies "cookies.txt" ${line}`
done

This is the magical part which does everything on it own just by getting the links from you in a separate file. As we can see from the code it pretty easy to understand that the links.txt file name is called using $1 positional parameter. The file is ‘cat’ed and the output is piped to the read statement in a while loop. which the loop repeats till the last line in the link file.

How to run the script.

Linuxidiot@Nerdplanet ~]$ ./rsscript.sh link.txt

or if you have . set in your path then you can directly run as

Linuxidiot@Nerdplanet ~]$ rsscript.sh

You can download my script which does all this job from first to last on it own or you can write yours on your own.

DOWNLOAD: Rar Format Click here or Zip Format Click here

The Scirpt should work fine. if you have any issues with the script please leave your comments and i will try to fix it. This script works only for rapidshare.com links if you want to make it work for rapidshare.de links you have to alter the cookie download links in the first step. The last thing is if you want to download movies,songs, apps or anything from rapidshare use this trick try a google search with string “rapidshare moviename” that should give you n no of links. you can download as many files as you want so easily with this method. I have also provided a sample link.txt file along with the script which is just a text file which contains links one after the other in separate lines. So we have reached the end of this tutorial. Use it at your own risk i am not responsible for downloading any illegal stuff from the internet using this trick. Happy downloading and have fun.

cheers!
Mohan