How To Download From Rapidshare

How Rapidshare Works - the basics.

If you are new to filesharing or if you have only used torrent or peer to peer filesharing programs before, downloading from rapidshare can be a little confusing at first. But once you see the benefits of hosted file sharing you will never go back to p2p or torrents. The way rapidshare works is pretty simple - people purchase a file hosting account that allows them to upload and download files on the rapidshare servers. They upload files to rapidshare and rapidshare provides links to the uploaded files. People share/post their rapidshare links to millions of sites on the web. To find those files simply type in GOOGLE:

"rapidshare.com" + "blue ray title"

"rapidshare.com" + "movie title"

"rapidshare.com" + "whatever your searching for"

These searches will bring up sites that have links to these files. So now you know how to find rapidshare.com links, But how do you download the files???

How Download Managers Help Download Rapidshare files.

 When you start finding rapidshare links you will find that most of the files use some kind of zipped or split file format (.zip, .rar, .001 ).This is good to keep the file size down, but you will have to click each link to download all parts of the file. Clicking each file to download can take forever if your are downloading a large movie file. So I will share with you the best setup that simplifies downloading from rapidshare. With a few clicks you can have this setup retreive all rapidshare links on a page and start a download queue downloading the files.

Read On To Learn A Proven Setup To Download From Rapidshare.

There are many different setups that you can have to download from rapidshare this just highlights one of them ( The Best One ). So rather than copying links from the sites and pasting them into a new tab in your internet explorer , there is a better way. 

First You Need A Rapidshare Premium Account

This is the only thing that will cost you anything, but with the ammount of things that you be able to download, it pays for itself. Plus its cheap only 6.99 Euros.

 

Step 2: Download Firefox web browser @

Firefox has the necessary plug-ins for this setup, plus it provides a better overall web experience.  you should allready have this... shame on you...

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Install Firefox

 

 Step 3: Obtain A Download Manager For Free On Rapidshare:

Download managers are used in this setup to queue up the rapidshare links and manage the download. They support download resume, store your rapidshare password, and save you alot of time.

Windows: FDM Free Download Manager.

 http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Mac: Speed Download.

Speed Download File Download.

Install The Download Manager Program.

 

Step 4: Download Flash Got firefox plugin:

Flash got is one of the most useful plugins for downloading from rapidshare. This firefox plugin allows you to select rapidshare links on a webpage, then send those links to your download manager, and download from rapidshare automatically. Did I mention its free......

http://flashgot.net/

 Install The Flash Got Firefox Plugin

 

Once all components are installed and firefox has been restarted.

First you need to set up Flash Got To use Speed Download or FDM as the default Download manager.

  1. right click anywhere inside firefox
  2.  click on Flash Got Options -> Select either Speed Download Or FDM or the download manager of your choice.

Now you will be able to queue up rapidshare links in your download manager.

Setup your download manager with your rapidshare premium login info.

  1.  Open your download manager program
  2. Find the preferences menu.
  3. go to passwords tab.
  • enter: *.rapidshare.com as the server
  • enter: / as the path
  • enter: http as the type
  • then enter your rapidshare username and password.

Now you will be able to download a whole list of rapidshare files quickly and easily, without having to enter your password every time.

 How To Use This Rapidshare Download Setup.

  1. Search for rapidshare links that you want to download.
  2. Select all the links with your mouse and right click.
  3. In the menu click on flash got selection.
  4. Files will be added to the download queue
  5. unzip or concat files.
  6. enjoy the free files that you just downloaded.