How to download files from Rapidshare

How to download files from Rapidshare (with your premium account)

Motivation

I recently bought a DS207.

I've been searching around the forums/wiki for any info on where to place the global wgetrc so I can add my RS credentials to allow DL station software (which actually uses wget for http/ftp downloads).

Tried to put it in /root/.wgetrc (user wget prefs) but didn't work for downloads queued by the DL station web or redirector s/w.

Then tried a lot of places (like /usr/syno/etc, /etc ...) no luck!

UPD: wget runs under the “nobody” credentials and since it has no proper $HOME only the the global /usr/local/etc/wgetrc seems to be working

Then I applied a simple, yet effective, workaround:

moved the original wget to wg

  DS-207>mv  /usr/syno/bin/wget /usr/syno/bin/wg

created a shell script named wget in the same dir of the original wget with the following code:

Edit: quotes around $@ added because semicolons in wget's arguments (e.g., user agent) can cause issues otherwise

  #!/bin/sh
  if echo "$@" 2>/dev/null | egrep -e rapidshare.com > /dev/null
  then
     WGETRC=/usr/syno/etc/wgetrc
     export WGETRC
  fi
  /usr/syno/bin/wg "$@"

made the new `wget' an executable:

  DS-207>chmod 755  /usr/syno/bin/wget

created my `wgetrc' file in /usr/syno/etc/ with the following contents:

  http-user=my_rs_username
  http-passwd=my_rs_pass
  header=Cookie:user=my_rs_cookie_value

test

Add a rapidshare download to your Download Manager or Redirector and enjoy.

Firefox Add-ons

An easy way to add User Information to Rapidshare links if you are using Firefox is the use of Synoload, the Firefox Add-on. See https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/11189 for details.

Another useful Firefox add-on for sending downloads from Firefox to your NAS (that doesn't add user information) is SynoExt. See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14042 for details.