Using Rapidshare

Rapidshare.com, originally Rapidshare.de is a very popular and successful file sharing site over the net. Rapidshare provides two types of services: A free service and a paid service.

Paid users will get unrestricted access to downloads, where as free users have to bear certain restrictions.

In India, most of the people using cable networks are behind a proxy server. They don't have individual IP addresses, and hence a lot of restrictions apply to rapidshare downloads.

Basically, here are the four steps to download from rapidshare as a free user:

1. Type in the rapidshare file link into the browser address bar.

2. Scroll down the page. You'll see two buttons, namely Premium and Free. If you've bought an account, click on premium, you'll be prompted to enter the username and password. If you don't have an account, click on the Free button.

3. If your ip is free, you should see a decreasing counter, or a CAPTCHA image as shown in the screenshot below:

4. Upon entering the CAPTCHA text, you'll be able to access the download.

Now, if you're behind a proxy server, then a lot of people in your lan will be using rapidshare, and hence you may get messages that "you have to wait for x minutes" or "Your IP is currently downloading a file".

There are two options to over come this.

Option 1:
For Non-Techie users, google for rapidleech script.. There are couple of sites which host rapidleech script using which u can use convert the rapidshare links into downloadable links.

Some sites:
http://www.all-movies.org/rapidleech/
http://it-syria.com/rapid/index.php
http://madalf.al.ru/rapidleech/
http://www.rapiddown.org/
http://www.evilartix.com/leech/
http://xuryax.hostuju.cz/
http://www.thanhniensonla.com/rapidshare/index.php
http://ronit.o-n.fr/
http://ghostsoft.hostuju.cz/index.php?act=files
http://www.ahm1.info/rapidleech/index.php
http://www.madadrangi.com/rapid/
http://holoh.athost.net/
http://yenbaitoday.com/rapidleech/
http://samhee.com.vn/rap/index.php
http://insane.the-hazer.de/graphics/dlvn/
http://oxamj.com/rapidasv/index.php
http://euro-pharmacia.com/rapid/index.php
http://banme8x.com/rapid/
http://m3rd4.com/
http://esipaaz.net/rp/index.php
http://www.nguyenhungfc.net/forum/link/
http://greenside.dajoob.com/rapidleech/index.php?act=files
http://euro-pharmacia.com/rapid/index.php?act=files
http://alkahera-alyoum.com/share/?v=
http://enatega.com/rapidleech/
http://ptvantien.com/
http://rakeshk.net/
http://ptvtpc.info/rleech/
http://enatega.com/rapidleech/index.php?act=files


These sites are obtained through googling. I'm not sure that these sites will be stable, up and running. No permission has been taken from the webmasters of these sites. If you are the webmaster of any of these sites, please leave a comment if you want your site to be removed from the list.

Option 2:
Using proxies. You can google for "using proxies to hide ip" and you'll get a lot of solutions.

Well, that's all for this post. There are a lot of tools available on the net to use with rapidshare, more about them sometime later.

Happy downloading :)