Download Multi-Part Download Links In One Click! [RS Premium Users]

Well, like many of you, I'm not a fan of seeing 40 or 50 Rapidshare links and having to click each one to download. So I came up with this guide. I don't use ANY third party programs, just Firefox, with two extremely handy Firefox extensions, and the Notepad application.

FOR MAC USERS(skip this if you don't own a Mac): I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure this works for Macs as well. Go through the same motions. I'm not sure what text editor Macs have built in, but use that to save as html.

1. So, how do you do this? First off, make sure you've set your RapidShare account to download direct. Go into your settings through RapidShare.com and find it. This skips the "free or premium" download choice screen and directly downloads as Premium the moment you click a Rapidshare link.

2. Then, grab the following extensions for Firefox(links included):

DownThemAll: A download manager/accelerator that's integrates into Firefox. It's really useful and performs just like IDM and those third party downloaders. I get speeds of up to 800-1 MB/sec using it.

Code:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

Linkification: Well, this is probably the single most useful extension ever, especially for us forum users. Essentially, what this extension does is turn any text URL into an actual clickable link. Translation? This means you can now click on links EVEN IF IT'S CODED. It works very well and is a snap to install, with no configuration needed.

Code:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190

Next, say we find a huge download, like for instance, the Adobe CS3 Master Collection. This is, I think, almost 41 parts? Anyways, the number of parts doesn't matter, my trick will always work.

3. So, when you see these links, highlight and copy all of them. ONLY the links, no other text. Next, open up a Notepad, and paste all the links into the Notepad. Click File>Save As..., and then save it as links.html (or *anything*.html, as long as the extension is .html)

4. Open up that html file in Firefox, and voila! All of them appear as clickable links, on a blank white page. But of course, it's not over yet. Right click anywhere on the page, and click DownThemAll. For the filter check boxes, just click All Files. Then, for the Save Files In option, click the Orange folder to the right of it and pick a location where you want to save all these files.

5. Then click start, and BAM. They're all cued up and 4 of them will start downloading. By default, DownThemAll downloads 4 links at a time, but you can of coruse change this by going into the Preferences. I don't recommend that, because the more you have downloading from Rapidshare at once, the slower your speeds are. Play around with it, sometimes I download one at a time too.

At any rate, it will start downloading, and at some pretty good speeds too (usually around 500 at least depending on your connection). Leave it in the background, and before you know it, all your links are there.

NOTE: For VERY large files (200MB+) it takes time for it to grab all the batch downloading links. Because of this, Firefox will probably freeze for a coupla seconds upon each new download link. DON'T worry, Firefox has not crashed, this is just a technical issue that can't be solved.

I took a decent amount of time to write this, a thanks would be nice .