rsdl v1.1

Here comes the next version of my cool Rapidshare download tool for the bash command line. It works out of the box on most Linux distributions and on Macintosh.

Download (md5) // Update January 2010: Mirror is down at the moment. Sorry.

Make sure to have read my previous post on rsdl. This is basically a bugfix release, the following things have been done:

• Many bugfixes
• Temporary files get stored in /tmp now
• Output fits better into the terminal
• Time gets counted down
• rsdl won't overwrite files
• More error checks for Rapidshare (file deleted/server busy and so on)

PS: There seems to be a similiar tool for premium users of Rapidshare which goes by the same name, rsdl.

rsdl

I present you the first English entry in my blog and the first release of my 'rsdl' tool for Linux. It's basically a tiny shell script which does all the pesky work for you. There's still a few things to fix, but please try it out, you won't be disappointed.

Be careful though, as it won't (yet) check if it would overwrite a file or not - one could say that it is still beta software. The only "special" requirement is 'curl', so it should still run on most linux distributions. If you make a list of your RS links, you'll be able to do the following:

cat list | xargs rsdl

If you find or even fix some error, please let me know or send me patches. Further updates will always be available here.

Download (md5)

Have fun, and don't tell these guys from RS ;-)

PS: This program has been written only for the "Free Download" feature, and not (yet?) for the premium zone.

15. 3. : Meanwhile I've found out, that there exist other tools which do a similar job. However, I still prefer this one at the moment because of it's simplicity: No overblown interface, no config files and almost no dependencies.