Rapidshare + Download Manager Tutorial

This tutorial is for those who have premium accounts on Rapidshare.com and want to know how to mass download links that you might find on a forum.

Flashget & Flashgot

1. Install a download manager. For this tutorial we will use Flashget because it's free and has a lot of great features. There are a list of compatible download managers here.
2. Install the latest version of Flashgot for Firefox and then restart the browser.
3. Login to your rapidshare.com account and enable "Direct Downloads"
   
   
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4. In Firefox go to [Tools]-> [Flashgot]-> [More Options]-> [General] and make sure that the Download Manager selected is FlashGet. Also under the [Menu] tab, you will want to check 'FlashGot Selection'. It will make your life a bit easier.
   
   
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5. Start up Flashget. Go to [Tools]-> [Options]-> [Site Manager] and Press [Add]. In the URL field put: "http://rapidshare.com" (without the quotes of course) and then check 'Login to Server' box and put your Rapidshare user name and password in the appropriate fields.
   
   
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6. Yea! You're almost done :D :fst:
7. Heres a small test file you can download to verify that everything is working correctly:
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   Select that file and right click and choose the option 'FlashGot Selection'. A box should pop up with the title "Add New Download". You can select what folder you'd like to download to and then click [OK].
   
   
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8. If everything goes well and the download finishes correctly, the file should be about 1 mb in size. If you get a file that is something like 5kb or an html file then something is configured incorrectly. Go back and verify your settings or leave a message here.
9. Now, all you have to do is select a whole group of links and use the 'FlashGot Selection' option, click [OK],. and all of those links will automatically be downloaded by Flashget. You can walk away and come back in a bit and all your files should be downloaded :noes:

If for some reason this isn't working for you continuously, you can PM me for help. ;)

Nice tutorial, you deserve a thanks.

Yeah for sure, thank you very much, I was looking for something like this.

thnks

wow man thnks a lot that was very helpful!
i was trying to find out what to do exactly about a month now...
thnks once again! :D

Thanks,it's always better with a prenium account i am gonna have one soon thanks again!

thanks mate , and i am using IDM and i use the same way ;)

thanks alot :D, now speeds will be even faster

thanx very much

thanx:rolleyes:

tanx m8

This is a great tutorial, and I've got it working just fine...sorta. It seems that the download speeds are way slower using FG than it is just normally downloading the RS files straight from the site one by one. How can I improve the speeds? Thanks!

Unfortunately this usually doesn't work for me. The only way I can download files is to click on the rapidshare link and wait for it to open in another tab and then use Flashget. If I don't do that I just download a link to the file.It has the correct name but it's only about 5K in size.

If there are multiple links on a page it defeats the purpose if I have to click on each one. I'm sure my settings are as above.

I use IDM and the config is quite the same, thanks for the tuto

very nice!

large files are usually divided in pices, and when u want to download them you have to select them one by one, is there any way so you can download them once?

i wish rapidshare had a more useful search feature

thanks ;D

Many Thanks!!! ;-)

thank u very much