Slimrat is a Linux download manager which can download files from the following online file hosting services: rapidshare, megaupload, metafire, easyshare, czshare, datahu, depozitshare, fastload, fastshare, filefactory, filehive, freakshare, hotfile, sharebase, youtube, zshare and many other including a direct download if there is no plugin available for a certain service.

Slimrat is lightweight, it can download multiple files and once and comes with both a GUI and a CLI. Another very interesting Slimrat feature is the automatic captcha solving based on an tesseract-ocr library.

Using Rapid8, there is no need to "sign out, delete cookies and reconnect with a different IP". It allows you to download any files shared and hosted on RapidShare, Megaupload, MegaShares, Easy-Share, MegaVideo, MegaPorn Video, NetLoad.in and Hotfile directly, by using premium accounts but you can use it from their website, for free.

The operation is very simple: you enter the URL of the file and press "Download", then a "Begin your download" button will be displayed and clicking it, you will start downloading you files without any other input from your side. This way, you get your files ready to download, no-code verification or further time loss.

Basically, what rapid8 does is download the files to their server and you download your files from rapid8 instead of Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc.

JDownloader, the open source, platform independent Rapidshare, Megaupload (and others) download application, has been updated to version 0.7 (7.569).

JDownloader simplifies downloading files from One-Click-Hosters like Rapidshare.com or Megaupload.com - not only for users with a premium account but also for users who don't pay. It offers downloading in multiple paralell streams, captcha recognition, automatical file extraction and much more. Of course, JDownloader is absolutely free of charge. Additionally, many "link encryption" sites are supported - so you just paste the "encrypted" links and JD does the rest.

The most important, noticeable change is that JDownloader 0.7 (7.569) is a lot faster than the previous versions. Another interesting change is that now it supports anti-captcha for more than 60 websites. Read on to see a list of other important changes.

What's New in 0.7

LoadEvery is a search engine for RapidShare, MegaUpload and similar sites which currently includes 30 sites for file sharing. The search may take place simultaneously in all or only in the websites you select and you can filter the results by the type of content you want: mp3, torrent, doc, images and video.

I already talked about a Firefox addon called SkipScreen which allows you to download from Megaupload without waiting as if you had a premium account but here's a simple trick to do this without having to install anything.

This trick is very simple and all you need is Firefox browser: proceed as normally when you want to download a file, enter the famous captcha and when you reach the page with the timer that tells you to wait XX seconds before downloading, in your browser (Firefox), go to View > Page Style and select No Style. This way, the page will not load the stylesheet and you will have direct access to the download link. Now just click on the Download button:

[via visualbeta]

Firefox extension BugMeNot integrates with the popular BugMeNot service to allow you to bypass mandatory web site registration by providing you with a username/password for the site you're visiting.

What that means is this addon will use usernames and passwords from BugMeNot and auto-fill them for you on websites such as megaupload.com, nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com and some other such websites.

Upload Mirrors is a website that lets you upload a file to multiple hosting services at once. You just have to choose the file from our computer and select the servers you want to upload.

It currently supports 12 hosting websites:


* RapidShare
* MegaUpload
* EasyShare
* DepositFiles
* ZShare
* FlyUpload
* SendSpace
* Badongo
* NetLoad
* MegaShare
* ZippyShare
* UploadedTo

Such tools are excellent for saving time and work and the assurance that if the archive is no longer available on one site, it will be on another one.

Another similar service is Gazup.

SkipScreen is Firefox extension which once you install, the splash screens on popular file sharing services, that show you advertisements and encourage you to upgrade to premium service to avoid having to wait, are a thing of the past. As you can see in the screenshot on the righ, the save file dialogue box popped up immediately while the count down was still in progress. Check out the video below to see it in action: