Manually downloading from RapidShare as a free user is a pain. Click this, wait, and click that, wait. When finished downloading the first part, go back to the clicking and waiting game. Fortunately there are many ways to automate downloading from RapidShare. You can either use a download manager that is meant to download from one-click hosters such as jDownloader, CryptLoad, or if you have a website with a lot of bandwidth, you can install RapidLeech script to make your server get the file from RapidShare and you can download from your server. I used jDownloader a lot in the past but have stopped using it because I always get very slow download speed even with my premium account. So now I am using RapidLeech to make my server hosted locally in Malaysia the middle man to grab all the files from RapidShare at a very fast speed. Then I can download from my server at full speed.

Today I will be covering another method on how to automate downloading from RapidShare as a free user using Firefox web browser! All you need to do is to open all rapidshare links in the Firefox tabs and go do something else. If you don’t like using jDownloader because it needs Java, Cryptload because it needs .NET framework, or you don’t have a website, then give this a try.


First method is to use an add-on called SkipScreen. It is a free Firefox add-on that lets you skip all the clicking and waiting on sites like RapidShare, Zshare, MegaUpload, and Sharebee. Your downloads start instantly. All you need to do is to install the add-on, and open all the rapidshare links on a new tab. You will notice that SkipScreen tries to download all of the links but only 1 will get through and the rest will say that you are already downloading a file. Once the first file has finished downloading, SkipScreen will automatically starts to download the other parts…

Second method is to use a Greasemonkey script called RapidShare AutoWait. This script only works on RapidShare and it even hides the advertisements in RapidShare. First make sure you have Greasemonkey add-on installed, then click here to install the RapidShare AutoWait script.

Both methods above will still need to wait all those timeouts and countdowns, but you won’t have to sit in front of your computer to do that. During testing, I found that RapidShare AutoWait works better than SkipScreen. When I canceled the first download, RapidShare AutoWait is able to automatically download the second part from RapidShare. It continues until all the rapidshare links has been downloaded. As for SkipScreen, when I canceled the first download, it doesn’t download the second part. I’ve tested three times and it failed all.

If you did not set Firefox to auto save the downloaded files, you will get full of download windows asking you where you’d like to save your files. Do take note that the files has finished downloading, so all you need to do is to just save it. If you don’t want all that annoying windows, just set the default location where Firefox should save your downloaded files.