librapidget 1.0.0 & Rapidget 2.0.0 released!

It's not news, that my old rapidshare downloader stopped working after relatively short time because RapidShare changed the portal. Some of you probably adjusted signatures to make it work again, or at least attempted to, however you have to admit it was built as a temporary solution, only. Let me present you the very best one.

librapidget 1.0.0 features

Free Mode and Premium Mode downloads from RapidShare
Resume download when a file is partially received in Premium Mode
New signatures to properly wait in case no free slots are available in Free Mode
Added missing support for accounts with disabled direct download
Support for proxy server in both modes
socket_connect() enhanced with timeout
Interrupted syscalls are now properly handled
Reusable and reliable socket functions, http functions, strings manipulation functions with auto-expanding
Better documentation in headers
Very low memory requirements (default size of file buffer is 8MB and can be set to 0)
Carefully tested on x86 GNU/Linux, x86_64 GNU/Linux and x86 OpenBSD
The library could work on each UNIX-like OS

rapidget 2.0 features

Added much better status handler to display also average speed, estimated remaining time and filename
Added configuration file, that can be put to ~/.rapidgetrc or /etc/rapidgetrc
Default download directory can be set, so that you can execute rapidget from any directory you want
Account ID and Account Password can be set in the configuration.
Added option to force Free Mode, although configuration file is set to use premium
Linkage against librapidget

The most significant change

Since now, it's been completely programmed in C to achieve cleaner code, less memory / disk-space requirements and higher performance compared to other solutions. The source codes are strictly GNU99 compliant and should compile without any warning. Checks for possible memory leaks were performed with valgrind and flawfinder with splint helped by their static analysis to uncover and fix all potential weaknesses.

Download

librapidget-1.0.0.tar.bz2 24KB
rapidget-2.0.0.tar.bz2 17KB

SHA1

75b5f5f03c2b1792e2561afa7086cf3fd375f259 librapidget-1.0.0.tar.bz2
857eb6937c2bf0e53204ed37943f6d61cbbd6bbb rapidget-2.0.0.tar.bz2

General instructions

Compilation prerequisites

UNIX-like OS with a recent gcc, GNU autoconf / automake / aclocal and autoheaders.

Unpacking

cd to directory with downloaded files and execute tar -xvjf librapidget-1.0.0.tar.bz2; tar -xvjf rapidget-2.0.0.tar.bz2 to unpack librapidget and rapidget.

Compilation & installation

Let's go ahead and execute cd librapidget-1.0.0; ./autogen.sh; ./configure && make followed by sudo make install. Now you have the library installed, so type cd ../rapidget-1.0.0; ./autogen.sh; ./configure && make followed by sudo make install and you're finished.

Notice

For further instructions perform cat README. You want to do that especially in directory rapidget-2.0.0 because of the configuration file.

Uninstallation: cd to directory with unpacked subdirectories librapidget-1.0.0 + rapidget-2.0.0 and execute cd rapidget-2.0.0; sudo make uninstall followed by cd ../librapidget-1.0.0; sudo make uninstall.

Come on, that was pretty easy, wasn't it?

Happy hacking!

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