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Don't Wait for Megaupload/Rapidshare

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Link to original post: [drupal=1441]Don't Wait for Megaupload[/drupal]



Was a bit bored, and decided to fix one of the small issues I have with megaupload.
You know how it makes you wait 40 seconds (25 for free registered users) before you can download a file? Well, I decided to script something up that fixes that. I'm sure there are other methods available to do this, I just wanted to do it myself.

This works for Firefox (it might work in IExploer, but i'm not sure how to actually add it lol).

Add a new bookmark (via right clicking the bookmark toolbar, or using the Organize Bookmarks feature: Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks...)

Name: MegaNow
Location:
Code: 
javascript:(function(){document.getElementById('downloadlink').style.display='';document.getElementById('downloadcounter').style.display='none';window.location=document.getElementById('downloadlink').firstChild.href;})()
Leave Keyword blank

Do whatever you want with description, maybe something like:
Download a file from Megaupload without waiting!

Now when you go to a Megaupload file downloading page (and you have the "Please wait for ## seconds" message), just click that bookmark (or access it through the bookmarks menu, and the counter will be replaced by the download now button, and your download will immediately pop up as if you'd clicked the button (no clicking required).

Rapidshare
I've Now updated this for Rapidshare. There are a couple of things about this one, though. Rapidshare seems to have some difficulties. As far as I can tell, this code does exactly what it should to skip the waiting time and start a download, but for some reason, it doesn't always work (and giving a page that says there's an error, make sure your browser supports javascript), but this code works some of the time.

Name: RapidNow
Location:
Code: 
javascript:(function(){c=0;fc();document.getElementsByName("dlf")[0].submit();})()
Leave Keyword blank

Do whatever you want with description, maybe something like:
Download a file from Rapidshare without waiting!

Use this on the page after clicking the "Free User" button.

Hope this helps some people!
 
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Don't wait for Megaupload... use the better service: http://www.mediafire.com/

- Insanely fast download and upload speeds
- Multiple simultaneous downloads
- Extremely stable servers

Only downside is the 100MB limit, but oh well.
 
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I would have to disagree with mediafire being better. Megaupload almost exclusively provides download speeds that double mediafire, has a wtf optimized uploader, and has a max filesize of 2GB.

The only downside is the wait speed (fixed here), and no parallel downloads (fixed via proxy servers). Boom, no downsides.

Also note that any video downloading will typically require more than 100MB for reasonable quality.

Mediafire has its advantages (for downloading a bunch of small files), but it is by no means better. If anything, they're just two sites for different things.
 
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Don't forget the download limits on Megaupload. You can only download XY MB (I think it was 250) per day. That's something Mediafire doesn't have.

I mean, if you want to upload one big file >100 MB, then I can understand, but I'm coming from the uploader branch that hosts game music, so we can split archives, haha. Generally, tho, you can split single files, too.
 
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that's not even close. I DL'd two 300MB files back to back earlier within 10 minutes, and then my roomate (same limit) DL'd another 300MB file less than an hour later. It's also not a per-day basis, it's by hour, and from the looks of it, probably 1GB an hour, maybe more.

splitting archives is a ****ing pain in the ***, as it just adds extra time on the upload side, and the DL side.
On Megaupload, when i last uploaded game music, i just uploaded one 700MB 7z unslplit archive of 120 touhou remixes (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MM6HJ4A5), and it was cool cause it uploaded in 40 minutes, and DLd even faster.
 
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You should edit the OP to have the script in code brackets so the automatic spacer thing (it put one in "('downloadcounter')")doesn't screw up people who just copy/paste it.

EDIT: I just tried this out and it gave me a "download limit exceeded" error message.
Nevermind, I just read the "no clicking required" part. I got dropped for having two downloads going at once.
 
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SCOTU said:
that's not even close. I DL'd two 300MB files back to back earlier within 10 minutes, and then my roomate (same limit) DL'd another 300MB file less than an hour later. It's also not a per-day basis, it's by hour, and from the looks of it, probably 1GB an hour, maybe more.
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Odd, cause I downloaded a 300 MB file once and wasn't able to download anything again until next day (with the free account, that is... dunno about Premium one).

then again, Megaupload changes its terms like every week. <_<
 
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bobson said:
You should edit the OP to have the script in code brackets so the automatic spacer thing (it put one in "('downloadcounter')")doesn't screw up people who just copy/paste it.

EDIT: I just tried this out and it gave me a "download limit exceeded" error message.
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fixed. didn't notice the messup. i just c/p'd it from my post on aib.

the DL limit exceeded means that either you, or someone on your IP exceeded the DL limit. nothing to do w/ this script.

Spadefox said:
Odd, cause I downloaded a 300 MB file once and wasn't able to download anything again until next day (with the free account, that is... dunno about Premium one).

then again, Megaupload changes its terms like every week. <_<
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well, i've been using the free account since early august 08 on a reasonably regular basis (my roomates have too), and we always get several episodes of anime before exceeding the limit, typically more than enough for anything short of DLing the whole series (which can be done from 5-7am EST because you get premium for some reason).
 
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Haha. I dunno what it is, then. Really. I have huge trouble with Sendspace when downloading from there, but some other guy I know can download without any problem from them. It's vice versa with Rapidshare.

I dunno. I learned to love Mediafire because of its stability, speed and simultaneous downloads, so I'll stick with that. :p
 
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Hey if anybody has a rapidshare account can I like use it for a day please thanks a lot.

All the stuff I download comes from rapidshare and I hate the download limit and wait times. I wish I had an account.
 
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Spadefox said:
Haha. I dunno what it is, then. Really. I have huge trouble with Sendspace when downloading from there, but some other guy I know can download without any problem from them. It's vice versa with Rapidshare.

I dunno. I learned to love Mediafire because of its stability, speed and simultaneous downloads, so I'll stick with that. :p
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doesn't change the fact that a ton of stuff is on Megaupload, and you still might need to download from it. That's what this is for, anyways. I didn't actually mean to like, try to promote megaupload or anything (although it does happen to be my prefered service). I just wanted to make it better for anyone that has to use it.
 
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By the by, would something like this work with Rapidshare, too?
 
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Scotu, I don't think you understand how much I love you for showing me this. :O
 
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updated for rapidshare, although, rapidshare's kinda weird and messes up on downloading stuff sometimes. I think it's rapidshare, not this hack, but i could easily be wrong. I'll look into this after my download limit exceeded error goes away :p
 
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they have a rapidshare downloader. you c&p all the links into it and it dls them all at once, id have to find it.
 
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yea it does.

man my friends rapidshare account expired tomorrow (note the incorrect use of tense) and now i cant download at LIGHTNING FAST SPEEDS. its killing me :_:
 
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Don't know. If it's in javascript, then probably, if it's in flash, probably not. If it's on the server, definitely not (other than using a proxy). I won't be looking into it though, I haven't even used/tested/seen if these still work in a long time
 
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