How to use WGET to download from Fileserve

[ladykiller88]

I found a guide here http://www.besthostingforums.com/showthread.php?t=48012 but it's for Hotfile, can anyone write guide for Fileserve and Filesonic

ladykiller88 Reviewed by ladykiller88 on 20th Oct 2010. How to use WGET to download from Fileserve I found a guide here http://www.besthostingforums.com/showthread.php?t=48012 but it's for Hotfile, can anyone write guide for Fileserve and Filesonic :D Rating: 5

[OnOffPT]

Getting the Fileserve cookie

Requirements:
-Firefox
-"Export Cookies add-on" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...xport-cookies/

1. Install "Export Cookies add-on" and run Firefox.
2. Go to www.fileserve.com and login using your credentials
3. Inside Firefox, go to Tools->Export Cookies... and save the cookies file into a folder (Save file as FScookie.txt into your Desktop for example)
4. Now just download your fileserve links using the following command:
wget --load-cookies FScookie.txt http://www.fileserve.com/file/ZXY/docs.zip

5. [Optional] - Delete non-essential cookies from your cookies file by deleting lines from FScookie.txt that DO NOT contain fileserve.com at the beggining

Suggestion: create a nice script (sh or bat) to queue your links to wget for automated download



Update: Here is a bat file to be used with.

Requirements:
-wget for DOS (linux users shouldn't have problems adapting the code)
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

Copy and paste the following two lines into a file called FSdownload.bat and put your FS links into links.txt in the same folder.

@echo off
wget-1.12 --cookies=on --load-cookies=FScookie.txt --continue --input-file=links.txt

[kundurocks]

Thanks, this is great!

Regards,
Sourav

[man4ev]

I have trouble with filesonic cookies, they work but time out very fast. My first downloads will work but then on the next group things are strange and I may get few but not all the files. Is there a trick to get the cookie to last longer or do they only last one day or so for everyone? I installed the Firefox Cookie Editor and extend the expiry but it does not seem to work. Maybe I'm not extending the correct cookie because there are quite a few in the list.

[soft2050]

Filesonic provides api and you can download file using there api

Check this:

http://api.filesonic.com/upload#FSAp...etDownloadLink

Simply wget like this and it should work:

http://api.filesonic.com/link?method...SWORD&ids=1234

wget 
http://api.filesonic.com/link?method=getDownloadLink&u=USER-EMAIL&p=PASSWORD&ids=1234,1111,4444

[man4ev]

Yes, thanks, that gets me the link for the id, but downloading does not occur, I don't know why.

The second tutorial example on this page is what I got

http://www.besthostingforums.com/13-tutorials-guides/104281-filesonic-com-api-tutorial.html

[xX0x0Xx]

Works great!