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kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 134

The Search for a Rapidshare premium download manager

Hey there!

Yeah, I'm searching for a good download manager that will accommodate the following:
1. I have a number of RS links in my browser window and want to get them effortlessly into the download manager, therefore most cli scripts with aria2 or similar are out, because creating a text file for every single linklists is too tedious.
2. I want to be able to give the download manager a specific folder to download the stuff to - every time I give it new links.

Until now I was extremely happy with the old and ugly aria1, I had profiles, each pointing to different download folders on my hdd and if I downloaded stuff that didn't warrant its own profile I still had a dialogue that asked me where to put the download. In addition, it just accepted it when I copy and pasted links to it, very convenient. However, after switching to arch64 aria1 isn't available anymore, I had compiled it years ago, it's just dead now.
Well, I didn't think it would be too hard to find something similar, but yes, it is. Of course I tried jdownloader, but that's still not enough, since I will just download everything to one global folder. And yes, I can switch the directory of downloads in the properties window, but only for a "pack" of links. This results in endless work when I am downloading several episodes of a tv show at once, where every episode is one pack. Ah, and it's java, a further annoyance.

I hope you guys have a way/program for me to accomplish what I have in mind.

PS.: Downthemall is out as well, since I don't use Firefox.

kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 134

Re: The Search for a Rapidshare premium download manager

Is it really possible that such a program just doesn't exist?

reed9

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Registered: 2008-06-12

Posts: 77

Re: The Search for a Rapidshare premium download manager

http://fatrat.dolezel.info/

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16782

lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

Re: The Search for a Rapidshare premium download manager

plowshare is awesome for one click hosters like rs, mu and the likes

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michaelr

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From: Mumbai

Registered: 2010-03-06

Posts: 2

Re: The Search for a Rapidshare premium download manager

There's also JDownloader. That's the one I use.. Needs Java though. It's in the AUR.

Sorry.. Didn't read your entire post and jumped the gun there..

Last edited by michaelr (2010-03-27 08:04:34)

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Nixie

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Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 51

Re: The Search for a Rapidshare premium download manager

Do you have a premium rapidshare account? Or do you require a program that can accommodate the wait times?

I don't know the cli script you used with aria1. But it is probably similar to modrapi, rapidshare-dl and rapidsucker that use wget. I believe rapidsucker or rapidshare-dl might be the most similar in that you can copy and paste the links directly to them and I expect you can easily make different profiles pointing to different folders like you had with aria1.

http://mundogeek.net/rapidshare-dl/

http://juanjoalvarez.net/es/detail/2007 … d-megaupl/

http://m0ds-ubuntu.blogspot.com/2008/01 … r-for.html

kelnoky

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 134

Re: The Search for a Rapidshare premium download manager

@Nixie
Premium - as it says in the title.
And I didn't need/use a cli script with aria1 because in contrast to aria2, it was a gui program. But rapidsucker sounds promising, I remember trying rapidshare-dl which had something that annoyed me. Thanks for the suggestions.