Download Rapidshare Using Idm

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to download from RapidShare using Internet Download Manager.

What you’ll need

Internet Download Manager 5.8
A RapidShare Premium Account
Firefox or IE

Download IDM:

1. If this is the first time you’re installing Internet Download Manager, download it and install it, and put the patch.

2. After installing, it should be inserted with your Internet browser (IE or Firefox). You’ll see some new items in your context menu when you right click.


3. Open up Internet Download manager and you’ll see this window.


4. Go to the Site Logins tab. Press the New button. Change the URL type from ftp:// to http://. Type in rapidshare.com in the box after the URL prefix. Then type your premium login, with the numbers as your username and your password in the remaining boxes.


5. To download from RapidShare directly instead of getting past a page with captchas, log into your RapidShare account from your IE or firefox. Go to options, and tick the box with Direct Downloads.


8. Now its time to test it out. Find an application with a few more than 2 links hosted on RS. Highlight a whole list in your browser, right click the list of URLs and then click Download with IDM. You should see a batch download window with the correct file sizes.

If you don’t see that, but you get HTML files abroad, something might be wrong with your login. If you see some files with correct sizes but some with HTML, they may be have been removed by RapidShare or the server may be down (which isn’t likely).

9. Tick all of the boxes that you wish to download and set a download location. They will be put into a queue in IDM.
Go back to the IDM main window and then in the Category sidebar, open up Queues. Right click Main Download queue and then click Start Now.


Don’t forget that RapidShare is also resume supported. You can pause the download anytime in IDM and resume it later. IDM is also convenient because it uses multiple download streams and speeds up the download.

  That’s all for my tutorial, and I hope that it helps! Please like it or comment if you like it!