Tucan: download manager for Rapidshare & Megaupload in Fedora 10

Tucan is a free software written in python to manage downloads and uploads in rapidshare, megaupload etc. It's lightweight, multiplatform and support premium accounts.

You can download it from here

To install it in Fedora 10:

• install all dependencies: yum install python pygtk2 python-imaging tesseract tesseract-langpack librsvg2
• unpack the tarball: tar zxvf tucan-.tar.gz
• cd tucan-
• as root: make install
• to launch it (not as root): tucan
  
• to uninstall it (as root): make uninstall
  

a command line tool to download files from rapidshare in Linux

this is a useful simple tool to download files from rapidshare without visual tools. it's perfect if you want download files on your home pc from your office.
you need a valid premium account on rapidshare and wget installed on your pc. to install it: as root yum install wget

create a new directory in your home directory (not as root!):
cd /home/your_user_name
mkdir .cookies
save a cookie in this folder with the following commands:
wget \
--save-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare \
--post-data "login=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD" \
-O - \
https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/premiumzone.cgi \
/dev/null

copy and paste the following code and save it as "catchall"

#! /bin/bash
f=`date +%Y-%m-%d_%Hh%Mm%Ss`$RANDOM$RANDOM.log
if [ "$#" = "0" ]
then
echo url missing
else
a="$@"
wget -b -a $f --load-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare $a
fi

make it executable and copy it under /usr/bin: as root chmod +x catchall then cp catchall /usr/bin

in your Premium-Zone Settings set as true the option "Direct downloads, requested files are saved without redirection via RapidShare"

now you can download any rapidhare file with the command: catchall your_rapidshare_url_here

you'll get a different log file for each downloaded file. you can see the status of your download with this command: tail -f log_file_name