Discussion on Rapidshare AutoWait | Userscripts.org

Problem, replied by liangshaoye

liangshaoye — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:28:20 +0000

You have reached the download limit for free-users...

wai like this?

awaiting your comments, replied by vynum

vynum — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:06:08 +0000

Thanks for responding Kodak. Ok, I'll try what you have mentioned. I forgot to mention a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to Rapidshare Autowait. sorry for the frustration outburst it just they do offer a free service, to free users. It is just my opinion is that if they don't want to give their free users some sort of organized service then its not worth it anymore. I have purchased Rapidshare accounts in the past its just not justifiable for me to keep dishing out the cash when the Free service would be fine if it wasn't for all the wait. Many of my friends use rapidshare too and we all share together. But we are all thinking of either moving to a different service or purchase our on server and simply use FTP.

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:11:14 +0000

Additional wait is happening during high RS load - shit happens - I can live with it cos its free. Script will work then too - it will simple turn to wait as long as there are no free slots. If you will use my modified version (mentioned couple of posts earlier) than only one window works at a time so it will also increase probability of a free slot for you (as is seems you need to wait at least 2 minutes between retries that time). For save prompts I got simple solution - I configured firefox to not ask for location but just download always to default location - then I move files from it to other places.

awaiting your comments, replied by vynum

vynum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:27:26 +0000

Ok, Installed GreasMonkey, Installed - Auto Wait. One Big Problem. Rapidshare is screwing all free users in the ASS!!!! If your lucky, you get to download one file. After that not only do you go into a waiting period of 15 minutes [Server Side Includes - timer], they have added a new waiting period that if all server slots are taken you "free user" can't download until a new slot is available. Well This is F*ked up because I have waited their 15 F*cking minutes, then they give a message no more slots available for free users and give you 2 more mintues, then after that revert back to another 15 minutes. This is total F*cking bullshit on Rapidshare's part.

conclusion: I think rapidshare is swamped and overloaded. Because of this it is making it hard for this script to work. If I go outside and come back in all I see is a bunch of save prompts from which will not work because the timelimit to click on them has expired with rapidshare.

Hell, Rapidshare don't even work even if you sit in front of your computer screen and do it manually. I did it for 6 days now and I'm sick of it. goodbye Rapidshare!!! I'm on to new shit!

Oh and one more thing. Premium account users, some not all are suffering too! slow ass download speeds. Each capped at 200k per connection. I know, they have to do something. But what they should do is stop telling and adverstising to everyone that you can download at fast or full speeds. Bullshit!

Rapidshare don't care anymore about service and quality, They have got their millions and all they want is more, but from the customer satisfaction perspective they either don't give a shit or don't know how to give a shit. ******* FINGER TO RAPIDSAHRE ********

I think people whom downloaded shit off their servers needs to upload them to a new service provider. We all need to find a very good file shareing service provider or F*cking go back to shareing shit on Usenet Newsgroups.

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:12:35 +0000

It is the first step

awaiting your comments, replied by vynum

vynum — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:53:30 +0000

No I haven't installed greasemonkey extension yet?

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:35:52 +0000

have you installed greasemonkey extension first?

awaiting your comments, replied by vynum

vynum — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:53:13 +0000

How do I use this script? I use Firefox latest edtion. I clicked on [tools>java concole] but nothing happened and it just grayed out. I was going to post your java script inside the console thinking this is how to activate the script.

Do I copy the script and past it in a console or something? Sorry for not knowing how to do this.

awaiting your comments, replied by Jeroenz0r

Jeroenz0r — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:11:41 +0000

haha thanks! :D

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:07:16 +0000

works perfectly for me

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:10:53 +0000

The problem is that wait timeout varies depending on error time and 15 minutes I guess is the largest one...

awaiting your comments, replied by steve8sviq

steve8sviq — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:50:15 +0000

what if you made the cookie lifespan 3 minutes by default instead of 15? that way worst case is user waiting 3 minutes instead of 15. will that cause any problems?

also what about making the cookieLifespan = (X seconds + repeatTimeout). that way user can't set cookieLifespan that is lower than repeatTimeout.

and thank you for all your effort

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:39:31 +0000

thats correct; some warning would be welcome; for now you can:
- clear rapidshare.com cookie,
- or wait for it to expire (its lifespan is 15 minutes max, you can reduce it a bit but it shouldn't be less than max refresh period of retry page as each retry refreshed the cookie to still block other tabs)

awaiting your comments, replied by steve8sviq

steve8sviq — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:19:33 +0000

if you close the active tab (which may happen if you opened a wrong link), then none of the other tabs that are waiting will switch over and become active. the other tabs will forever say "other window downloading..."

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:49:01 +0000

http://code.google.com/p/rsaw-clone/downloads/list

awaiting your comments, replied by steve8sviq

steve8sviq — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:06:02 +0000

how do i export from your website?

when i copy and paste code, it has the line numbering included

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:24:16 +0000

Ok, here is a try on synchronisation using a cookie set on main RS page. I do not like it much (not sure if synch is strict and cookie can be sent to RS server) but for now it may do the work.
1) only one window can actually query RS servers; synch is using a cookie - it do not look atomic (check/set cookie) but javascript gurus do not like the idea of javascript semaphore (for now) and couple of tries happen to work
2) after final form submission script checks whether we are in "already downloading" state - only this marks file as done - maybe it will help fix some submission problems?

It needs more testing. Anyone? http://www.wklej.eu/index.php?id=8036446f8b

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:19:14 +0000

Well extension has much much more options available. I was digging today into greasemonkey possibilities - I wanted to use GM values for synchronisation between tabs but ended with problems (GM is highly secured and currently it is not possible to use GM variables easily in this script). I have also started a parallel discussion about using GM variables as semaphores (http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-use...) but it will take time and first I need to learn how to use them in this script. I was thinking about using a cookie instead but there is also (at least IMO) not perfect solution to do the semaphore there (no atomic method of checking and setting a common value).
I was using skipscreen but don't like it much. This script is almost perfect.
I don't think I have contributed enough to make a branch. Pete is coming here from time to time so maybe he will use some changes later on. I will think about it again after solving this synchronisation issue :)

awaiting your comments, replied by steve8sviq

steve8sviq — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:25:23 +0000

i'm glad you were able to see problem also.

in regards to solutions, i used to use extension: skipscreen.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...

it is inferior to Rapidshare AutoWait because skipscreen has its own bugs, but i've never experienced the two bugs i mentioned (stuck at 0:00 and flashing "success" between count cycles). perhaps looking at skipscreen implementation can give you some ideas

awaiting your comments, replied by steve8sviq

steve8sviq — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:21:32 +0000

1) i'll try monitoring. It only happens once in a while, maybe 1 out of 20 downloads

2) i tried using autoclose but had to quickly disable it. autoclose ends up closing all the tabs even when downloads haven't started. it seems to be caused by the way "success..." temporarily shows up between count cycle resets.

kodak, since you are more actively updating the script, have you considered creating a branch until the original author returns?

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:22:38 +0000

hmm looks like it happened to me also; it probably takes place only when you open couple of rs links simultanously and only one of them gets through; hm it can be tricky to fix it as I do not see a possible feedback for posting final form...
it is probably the high time to think about some between-tabs synchronisation - maybe using a cookie?

awaiting your comments, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:17:40 +0000

steve:
ad1) can you somehow monitor javacript console to see whether there are any error in such situation; i have no idea why it is happening to you; i had no such occureence
ad) the question is what was the rs error message/info during that countdown - sometimes it is simply overcrowder

have you tried autoclose mentioned some topics above?

awaiting your comments, replied by steve8sviq

steve8sviq — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:57:51 +0000

2 small bugs

1) Sometimes after a download has started, the counter will stay at "0:00 ..." and not switch over to "Success..."

This is inconvenient because user then has to check downloads and make sure that a tab with "0:00" was downloaded before closing.

2) When the counter resets, i.e. it hits zero then starts up at 120seconds again, it says "success..." momentarily before starting to countdown again.

It would be nice if "success" only showed up after a download has started.

Because it flashes momentarily user has to watch the tab for a moment before closing to make sure it doesn't revert to another countdown.

wishlist, replied by her34

her34 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:11:59 +0000

Kodak, thank you for update

wishlist, replied by Kodak

Kodak — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:15:52 +0000

here http://www.wklej.eu/index.php?id=03d60d5329 you are
you can choose duration format you like by setting proper durationFormat variable (i'm prefering 0:00)