avoid rapishare.de waiting

[Shub-Nigurrath]

found elsewhere and tested

In rapishare.de there's a fixed 70 seconds or more delay to wait before being able to download the file..this trick is about how to avoid this waiting..

Dont wait for 70 seconds for links to show up

The trick is simple. once pressed on the "Free" button, take the source of the Rapidshare page. Search for "fcount". Most probably in the 5 th javascript, there will be the function named fcounti() or fcountf() , or fcounte() or fcountx with x equal to a letter...

Copy and paste the right function name and insert the below name in the address bar (where there's the URL)

javascript: for(i=1;i<30;i++){functionname(); }

where functionname can be one of fcounti() or fcountf() , or c() ....

the counter should go off and the link should appear immediately.

It's not that handy indeed, except for long waiting times, but might be the base for a tool.

Tested on firefox 1.0.1

credits to those who found this trick, don't remember the name, might be Mohan ..

[h8er]

i can confirm this trick works with opera too.. thanks Shub-Nigurrath and Mohan

[aldente]

The Url is also in the source code (Url-encoded), i think
it's probably easier to implement decoding and parsing that, instead of
the JavaScript-Way, as you just need to download that
page, and do not need to interpret it (neither HTML nor
JavaScript). Here is my little Delphi-function:

function DecUrlEncStr(const InpStr: String): String;
var
  i: Integer;
begin
  SetLength(Result, Length(InpStr) div 3);

  for i := (Length(InpStr) div 3) downto 1 do
    Result[i] := Chr(StrToInt(LowerCase('$' + InpStr[i*3-1] + InpStr[i*3])));
end;

[aldente]

Just finished writing a tool which generates it's own html-site with the link immediately, without any clicking by yourself, and of course without ads and without waiting, test it:

http://home.scarlet.be/~jp040888/rapidshare.rar

The tool uses the way I described before, to extract the real link, no html or javascript interpretation needed at all.

With that tool, you can easily download files from links in the following format:

rapidshare://655915/Europa_fuehrerschein_by_FxPGoD3.rar
(This is NOT my file, just one which i found in another board!)

As you can all read (I guess), installation should be no problem, there are known issues, but maybe you find other ones. Don't hesitate to give your feedback!

[D-Jester]

Nice program, however installation instructions should be included.

The *.reg which adds the protocol to HKCR must reflect the path to the file.

Once you set that up import into the registry and your set

Nice work!

Regards

[aldente]

Yeah, i've written a readme-file and forgot to include it

Here it is:

RapidShare - the way YOU like it!

no waiting times!
no ads!
lower traffic!



installation:

1. change path of 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rapidshare\shell\open\command' in 'install.reg'
(according to where you want this program to run from) and import it into your
registry afterwards. of course, you only have to do this before the first run,
of after changing the program's location.
2. be happy when downloading files via the following type of urls:
'rapidshare://123456/filename.zip'
(these urls are clickable within your browser and will start my program,
which will then open a new browser window and display you the direct link - within
seconds!)


known issues:

-program should not be started by clicking it directly
-temp file is always written to 'c:\temp.html'
-new browser windows is always MSIE (some of you might to want other browsers)
-no comfortable installation

//I am planning to write a new version, there are several ideas and i want you opinion, which one would be best:

-a version like this (special urls), without the known issues
-a version which sniffers whole tcp-ip-traffic, and popups that window when opening a rapidshare-url (so you need no special links any more)
-a version, which acts like a proxy, so rapidshare.de is being redirected to 127.0.0.1 in Windows-HOSTS-file
-a version, which installs plugins to monitor the browsers, like most Download-Managers do

Originally Posted by Big_or_what

The Url is also in the source code (Url-encoded), i think
it's probably easier to implement decoding and parsing that, instead of
the JavaScript-Way

Right, those who still prefers manual way, just copy string from unescape function and paste it in adderss bar, you will get your URL, much faster

Visu

[aldente]

@D-Jester:

My tool would just monitor the browser to catch RapidShare-Links, the downloading still has to be done by the browser/downloadmanager.
The problem is just to get the link into the decoder.


//Edit: New version!

http://home.scarlet.be/~jp040888/rapidshare.rar

fixed issues:
-program should not be started by clicking it directly
-new browser windows is always MSIE (some of you might to want other browsers)
-no comfortable installation
-readme-file is now included

[D-Jester]

Originally Posted by Big_or_what

My tool would just monitor the browser to catch RapidShare-Links, the downloading still has to be done by the browser/downloadmanager.
The problem is just to get the link into the decoder.

lol, ...no, I understand that I meant since your app decodes the link, I assume that this is still the "free link", so therefore it doesn't support download managers and resume?

sorry for the confusion

Regards,

[Shub-Nigurrath]

10x a lot, excellent work!

just one thing I haven't understood clearly..

when in Firefox are you supposed to right click and use the plugin rapidshare download function?

I tried at the free button and doesn't work. tried before, selecting the rapishare url in this form:

http://rapidshare.de/files/952934/application.rar.html

and doesn't work (tells me incorrect url format).

could you add a little of string processing and internally converto urls in the above format to rapidshare:// urls? It would be much more usable.
or ad support for right click when you are in the initial rapishare page, where there's the "free" button??

[aldente]

Right-click plugin just works with hyperlinks.

It was hard enough to develop this little plugin, far more difficult than to write the MSIE-extension.

The program itself is already capable of handling such links, the problem is:

The Firefox-extension is written in crappy JavaScript, I simply do not know how to create a link with the selected text, instead of the href-property.

[Shub-Nigurrath]

ok ok.. I too do not know that much of js..if some1 willing to fix it would be great!

[taos]

another solution.

Thats simple and innovative taos. May be you can integrate it with firefox using Greasemonkey

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

From their website:

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any webpage to change it's behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a webpage's style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a webpage's design or interaction.

For example you could:

* Make sure that all URLs displayed in the browser are clickable links
* Improve the usability of a site you frequent
* Route around common and annoying website bugs

[aldente]

@visu:

Well, the current plugin for Firefox works just fine, and I already have a code sample, to work with non-clickable links, and it'll get implemented in the next version, until then I'll enjoy my freetime.