Thread: [HOWTO] Premium DDL downloads from your SSH-enabled seedbox with wget

I've recently got my first seedbox (a basic Feral Hosting slot) and installed Rapidleech to fast download with my premium FileServe/FileSonic/Netload accounts. Bur RL needs plugins, sometimes locks up and things like this so, I had to find an alternative.
This alternative is a combination of the the good old wget utility with a touch of lynx, a text mode browser.

First of all we have to install both packages (if they are not yet on your system): assume the absolute path to your home directory is "/media/sdh1/home/shutaroz", this is just a matter of downloading sources, untarring, enter directory, issue a ".configure --prefix=/media/sdh1/home/shutaroz", wait a bit, issue a "make", wait a little bit more, issue a "make install" and done! Repeat this for both packages and you'll end up with a local and complete installation of these awesome pieces of software.
Notice that now you have bin, etc, man and share folders on your home directory. Nice, uh?
Let's continue by telling lynx something about cookies and how to handle them.
Edit the "etc/lynx.cfg" file and add, at the very end, the following lines (assume your home folder is "/media/sdh1/home/shutaroz"):

SET_COOKIES:TRUE
ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES:TRUE
PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE
COOKIE_FILE:/media/sdh1/home/shutaroz/lynx_cookies
COOKIE_SAVE_FILE:/media/sdh1/home/shutaroz/lynx_cookies

Save this file and fire up lynx browser. Navigate, e.g., to FileServe website (press the "g" key and then enter http://www.fileserve.com), find the login fields (move between fields with up/down arrows or tab), fill them with your username and password and then submit. By doing this step, you have created the famous "cookie" which stores your credentials and open the doors for fast and easy downloads.
Next step is the last one: we have to tell wget to use the cookie created by lynx (and stored in the "/media/sdh1/home/shutaroz/lynx_cookies" file) and to use your credentials to access FileServe downloads. It's easy, just create a ".wgetrc" file (notice the dot that means this is an hidden file) in the root of your home directory ("/media/sdh1/home/shutaroz") and fill it with the following lines:

http-user=ShutaroZ
http-passwd=mySuperSecretPass
load_cookies=/media/sdh1/home/shutaroz/lynx_cookies

Save the file and we're done!
Let's test it! Grab a FileServe link and issue the following command:

wget http://www.fileserve.com/file/something

If everything went right, your premium download should start immediately. If wget downloads a small file, thet is the html error page and something is not right in place with our setup: go and check the configuration files!



If you want to download a list of links, just put them, one per line, in a text file called, for instance, "mylinks" and issue the following command:

wget -i mylinks

wget will process all the links in your text file downloading everything without your assistance and without a download manager!

I've tested it with FileServe, FileSonic, FileCrown and NetLoad hosting services.

Hope this tutorial to be useful and sorry for my english, it is not my native language!

Best regards.

ShutaroZ

nice share

Nice tutorial. I'll certainly give it a try.

Thanks for sharing

if u can be a little more specific with the guide for the most inexperience on SSH and commands like me it would be greatly appreciated.

Originally Posted by vic_sparrow

if u can be a little more specific with the guide for the most inexperience on SSH and commands like me it would be greatly appreciated.

I'll try to be more specific.
The goal is to save the cookie from e.g. FileSonic in a file and instruct wget to use that cookie to start a premium download.
Package installation is required only if you don't have lynx and wget already installed (my FeralHosting slot missed lynx).
The lynx.cfg coult be the system one (/etc/lynx.cfg) or your user one (~/lynx.cfg). In the latter case, you have to launch lynx with the following command:

Code:

 lynx -cfg=~/lynx.cfg

put the required lines (see the main post) in the lynx.cfg with the following command (the cd is to ensure you're in your home directory):

Code:

cd
nano lynx.cfg

at this point paste the configuration text and then issue

Code:

CTRL+X (exit)

and finally reply "Y" to save the file and confirm filename.

Open up your lynx browser e.g. to the filesonic login page:

Code:

 lynx -cfg=~/lynx.cfg www.filesonic.com/user/login

and login with your credentials.
Quit lynx with by hitting the "q" key and confirm.

Make the necessary steps to create the .wgetrc file as explained above and you should now be able to do something like:

Code:

wget http://www.filesonic.com/file/1030194291/testfile.rar

note you have to use full links (with filename) and not short links (e.g. Download testfile.rar for free on Filesonic.com) otherwise wget will download the file and name it 1030194291 (in thos case).

Hope you'll find these info useful!

Best regards.

Shu

Hi buddy. Thanks alot for this! I also have a feral hosting slot and I am going to try this later tonight as I was looking for a tutorial like this!

Thanks again! Will report back how it works for me!

Originally Posted by JamesGuth

Hi buddy. Thanks alot for this! I also have a feral hosting slot and I am going to try this later tonight as I was looking for a tutorial like this!

Thanks again! Will report back how it works for me!

You're welcome matey!
I'm experimenting some improvements, will publish them ASAP.
If you have problems, also ask FH support, they're a very professioal team!

Best regards!

AtaruZ

Yes please post anything else you find as I thought maybe this wasn't possible with the limitations of a "slot" instead of a VPS.

When my feral one runs out I think I may go with a vps next time as there is so much more you can do. Where did you learn how to do this?

Eheh, your slot can do things you'd never imagine matey!!! The only thing it needs is some experience and I'm an IT expert with 20 years training and working hard in this business. Google does the rest!!!
FH offers aa very good cost-performance service with the drawback of limited UL bandwidth (I use very much, even more than 1TB/month) and their support team is simply awesome!

Which VPS are you going to try?