Slimrat: Linux Download Manager For RapidShare, MegaUpload And Many More

Slimrat is a Linux download manager which can download files from the following online file hosting services: rapidshare, megaupload, metafire, easyshare, czshare, datahu, depozitshare, fastload, fastshare, filefactory, filehive, freakshare, hotfile, sharebase, youtube, zshare and many other including a direct download if there is no plugin available for a certain service.

Slimrat is lightweight, it can download multiple files and once and comes with both a GUI and a CLI. Another very interesting Slimrat feature is the automatic captcha solving based on an tesseract-ocr library.

To install Slimrat in Ubuntu, firstly you need to install some dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libwww-mechanize-perl aview imagemagick tesseract-ocr libgtk2-gladexml-perl xclip libspiffy-perl

Then simply download Slimrat, extract it, go to it's src folder and open either slimrat (cli) or slimrat-gui.

Installation instructions for other Linux distributions can be found in the INSTALL file in the slimrat archive you have download.

You can configure slimrat by editing the slimrat.conf, which should be copied into /etc/slimrat.conf or ~/.slimrat/config

Download Files From Megaupload, Rapidshare and Others In Linux, via Command-Line, With Plowshare

Plowshare is a command-line downloader and uploader for some of the most popular file-sharing websites. It works on UNIX-like systems and presently supports: Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2Shared, 4Shared, ZShare, Badongo, DepositFiles and Mediafire. It's basically a wget for the websites mentioned above.

Installing Plowshare in Ubuntu

1. First, we must install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install curl recode imagemagick tesseract-ocr-eng spidermonkey-bin aview

2. Download Plowshare, and extract the contents of the archive:

tar xvzf plowshare-0.8

3. Now let's set up Plowshare:

cd plowshare-0.8
sudo bash setup.sh install

That's it

Using Plowshare

Download

* Download a file from rapidshare:

plowdown http://www.rapidshare.com/files/86545320/Tux-Trainer_25-01-2008.rar

* Download a list of files (one link per line):

plowdown file_with_links.txt

* Download a file from megaupload using a free membership account:

plowdown -a myuser:mypassword http://www.megaupload.com/?d=132348234

* Download a password-protected file from megaupload:

plowdown -p somepassword http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ieo1g52v

* Get only the file URL without actually downloading it. Very handy if you want to use another web downloader:

plowdown --link-only http://www.2shared.com/file/4446939/c9fd70d6/Test.html | xargs -rt wget

* A more complex example for advanced users: you have a found a webpage containing a bunch of megaupload files and want to download, let's say, the first ten links. You could then write:

curl http://some-website.com/page.html | \
grep -o "http://www.megaupload.com/[^\"< ]*" | uniq | head -n10 | plowdown -

* Filter alive links in a text file

plowdown -c file_with_links.txt > file_with_active_links.txt

Upload

* Upload a file to megaupload with a free membership account:

plowup -a myuser:mypassword -d "My description" /path/myfile.txt megaupload

* Upload a file to megaupload with a Premium account and multifetch upload:

plowup -a myuser:mypassword -d "My description" --multifetch http://www.somewherefarbeyond.com/somefile megaupload

* Upload a file to rapidshare anonymously changing uploaded file name:

plowup /path/myfile.txt rapidshare:anothername.txt

[via gnometips]

Download Files Without Waiting From RapidShare, Megaupload, etc. For Free

Using Rapid8, there is no need to "sign out, delete cookies and reconnect with a different IP". It allows you to download any files shared and hosted on RapidShare, Megaupload, MegaShares, Easy-Share, MegaVideo, MegaPorn Video, NetLoad.in and Hotfile directly, by using premium accounts but you can use it from their website, for free.

The operation is very simple: you enter the URL of the file and press "Download", then a "Begin your download" button will be displayed and clicking it, you will start downloading you files without any other input from your side. This way, you get your files ready to download, no-code verification or further time loss.

Basically, what rapid8 does is download the files to their server and you download your files from rapid8 instead of Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc.

JDownloaded 0.7 (7.569) Released

JDownloader, the open source, platform independent Rapidshare, Megaupload (and others) download application, has been updated to version 0.7 (7.569).

JDownloader simplifies downloading files from One-Click-Hosters like Rapidshare.com or Megaupload.com - not only for users with a premium account but also for users who don't pay. It offers downloading in multiple paralell streams, captcha recognition, automatical file extraction and much more. Of course, JDownloader is absolutely free of charge. Additionally, many "link encryption" sites are supported - so you just paste the "encrypted" links and JD does the rest.

The most important, noticeable change is that JDownloader 0.7 (7.569) is a lot faster than the previous versions. Another interesting change is that now it supports anti-captcha for more than 60 websites. Read on to see a list of other important changes.

What's New in 0.7

• After lots of complains about performance we redesigned the gui to be much faster.
• Better Browser integration - The famous Firefox Extension Flashgot now supports JDownloader and is bundled together with it.
• New, and most important, faster themes. Install Substance Themepack to get more Style and Themes.
• Updated JDChat, Scheduler, LanguageFileEditor.
• You can now continue downloading while updating.
• The new External Interface provides an API for Websites to interact with JDownloader.
• More supported Hosters and Decrypter than ever before.

Download JDownloader 0.7 (7.569)

[thanks Adrian for the tip]