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Dec 21, 2008 12:40am iampete Script's Author	Please tell me, if you like this script, if it works for you and if it helps you. Feedback is a great motivation for a programmer;-)

Dec 21, 2008 12:01pm Placebo User	Wonderful script iampete. I was waiting for a long time for a script with a timer included. Before i had to use a timer to know when the 15 min had gone. Great idea really and good work. For now i have no problem, everything works fine. But i have a little suggestion : could you, if possible, get rid of all the blahblah of rapidshare (other payment, Paypal, ..., the board with the prices) and just keep the name of the file, its size, the countdown and the download button. It would make my day ;-))). Thanks in advance.

Dec 21, 2008 3:15pm Briner User	Very useful. I downloaded a batch of 35 files last night thanks to this! The only thing to criticize would be, even though I selected a default download location, the next morning I had to manually click "save" on all the popped-up notifications. They were all already downloaded, but still, I was a bit startled that moment. Kudos!

Dec 21, 2008 9:52pm iampete Script's Author	thank you very much for the positive feedback;-) will try to work on and don't dissappoint you;-) @Briner: i think this rather an issue with the firefox settings. Not only you have to tell firefox the default download location, but you also have to tell him not to ask what to do with the file - firefox doesn't know if you want to save the file, or just open it, or (for example) download it using DownThemAll extension (in my case).. In FF3 go to Tools->Preferences->Applications-> search for the filetype (rar?) -> set to "Save file". This should do the job. There should be no popup dialog what so ever if you set it up correctly. @Placebo: i think i could hide the big blue advertisement, it shouldn't be a problem..

Dec 21, 2008 11:59pm iampete Script's Author	well try it out.. the advertisements should now be hidden.. if you don't like it and want to go back to the normal display, just set the "hideAd" variable on line 20 to false. hope you like it.. PeTe

Dec 22, 2008 1:27am Placebo User	Grrrrrrreat PeTe: just what I needed. You're DA Man. Now the script works as I wanted to. For now I don't see any other changes to do: it's 'Pure-fect' BIG thanks to you. David

Dec 23, 2008 10:04am Briner User	Thanks for the hint! All works well and automatically now. :)

Dec 25, 2008 2:45pm smp26 User	Great script, thanks a lot!

Dec 26, 2008 3:37pm sheeep User	Grate script the best i have tried so far. Just one thing is it possible to keep the timer going so if i lose my internet connection it won’t time out out and stop the script.

Dec 26, 2008 5:31pm drongo User	Could you please add an external execution of bat file after each downloading? I have a bat for reconnection.In most cases i am getting a new IP. I hate waiting :)

Dec 26, 2008 8:25pm iampete Script's Author	@sheep: i can investigate, but i think there is a little problem with this.. when you lose internet connection and the script refreshes the page, the page is not found (network error) and greasemonkey therefore doesn't run the script.. at least that is how I think it is working.. Can someone confirm this behavior? Thanks.. I will try to look at it when i have time.. probably at the weekend.. cheers PeTe

Dec 26, 2008 8:31pm iampete Script's Author	@drongo: i'm sorry, but i think running a bat file from your filesystem is 1.) security risk, 2.) im not very sure but i think javascript can't do that at all 3.) i think there is no way the script can detect that you have _finished_ the download 4.) it has almost nothing to do with downloading from rapidshare, so it is quite offtopic for this purpose.. i'm sorry PeTe

Dec 27, 2008 6:31pm Placebo User	@sheeep: There is one simple way to avoid your internet connection lose : add the firefox add-on 'Try again' and set the delay at 1 second and 150 trys (or more or less as you want) so firefox will try to reload the page until your connection works again. And you won't have to stay before your screen refreshing again and again. Hope this will help you. Cheers m8. David

Dec 27, 2008 8:34pm sheeep User	Cheers Placebo works perfect. The reason i was loosing my connection was because i was restarting my router so my isp would supply me with a new ip address. What can i say im lazy =p

Dec 28, 2008 8:21am srichard User	I think that would be nice to have autowait with autodownload to a nominated location

Dec 28, 2008 12:59pm iampete Script's Author	Good news everyone.. Thanks to Aquilax, who helped me on the Forum, I added a new feature - detecting network error and reloading. Might need some betatesting though. Please report if it doesn't work.. Placebo: although the add-on looks very good, unfortunately when the connection is lost during the countdown, the Try Again button causes a confirmation notice to pop up (because there is POST data). I would like this script to follow the way "open a rapidshare link in a tab and go play outside" - fully automatic if possible. So the reloading process uses another method - setting up correct document.location. One remaining problem with network error is that if the connection is lost during a download, this download is never finished and there is no way for the script to detect this.. well.. hope you like it;-)

Jan 1, 2009 5:57pm sheeep User	I’m not sure what is meant to happen but the script is still stopping for me when there is no network connection. I’ll try play around with it a bit more I haven’t had much time lately.

Jan 2, 2009 2:31pm iampete Script's Author	Hi I just tried it once again to be sure. I had 8 tabs open, one of them was currently downloading. I switched off the wifi. The download stops (obvious), all other tabs are trying to find the address and after a while (firefox's timeout) they reach the error message Network Timeout or Address Not Found. Now another short countdown is started in the title - just 10 seconds. After that another atempt to reload the page is launched. If I turn my wifi back on, it reloads the page correctly and goes on as usual. Also, after a minute or two that file that was in the middle of download is resumed. If it doesn't work for you, then possible cause, that comes on my mind, is different version of Firefox (I am using 3.0.5, but should be the same on all 3.x.x), because the structure of the error message page might be a little different.

Jan 3, 2009 4:38pm Barbudo2005 User	Congratulations. Your script is fantastic. Could you delete the tab with success?

Jan 3, 2009 11:15pm iampete Script's Author	Hi Barbudo, if by delete you mean close, I think I could, but it could make trouble.. The "success" status is reached when we _start_ the download.. there is no way to check if the download has been finished. So I think it is better to leave the success tab open, just for you to see that it was really all right and successfull.. (I usually leave some files to download during the night and I'm always looking forward to seeing all those success tabs in the morning;-) ) Anyway, if more people would require this feature, there is no problem to implement it at least as an optional one (configurable).

Jan 4, 2009 4:22am alala Scriptwright	The script seems to give up on two error messages: "Currently a lot of users are downloading files. Please try again in 2 minutes or become a Premium member Please note, the server is not going to check again within the next 2 minutes if downloading is possible again. To provide a fair platform, all user get the same options. Your last attempt was 17 seconds ago." and "We regret that currently we have no available slots for free users. Unfortunately you will have to wait 2 minutes, this will allow us to continue to provide our service to our Premium users. Afterwards it will be checked again if you can access the file. If you do not want to wait that long, become Premium member Please note, the server is not going to check again within the next 2 minutes if downloading is possible again. To provide a fair platform, all user get the same options." It just sits there with no counter until I intervene. That aside, it's a really great script.

Jan 4, 2009 2:08pm iampete Script's Author	Thanks for the info Alala. I didn't know about these errors, because I have never encoutered them. I added them to the script, so please try to test it now, if it is working. If not, I will need some more information about the error pages, so if you reach them again, please download the html source of the page. Thanks for the feedback. PeTe

Jan 4, 2009 9:24pm sheeep User	Hay I have been getting similar errors to Alala in the last while ill update to the new script now and see if the errors are recurring. I have also saved copies of the sources if you want to take a look them. On another note would it be possible to make use of the Greasemonkey>User Script Commands to make it easier for us mere mortals to configure the script. Keep up the great work love this script. Edit: About the network issue im not getting a Network Timeout or Address Not Found message its coming up as Offline Mode with Page Load Error in the title.

Jan 5, 2009 9:40am MalarKeY_ User	Hey iampete! Good Job on your script, But i got a problem.... Always when the script reload the page a 3 ou 4 times, I got a error, page not found... And because this, i download only 2 ou 3 files in the night... with 34 tabs open.... Anyaway to fix this? This script is the only alive in this web. And is very good, but the only problem is this. Thanks iampete! ~~ EDIT: Hummm, I Think i Resolved it using OPEN DNS. Now, Works Fine!... I Think.

Jan 5, 2009 10:05am JohnBilbo User	Hey Together, On my computer the script doesn´t work completly. It klicks the "Free User" button and after the 50 seconds it klicks the "Download" button. But the Waiting Funcrion of the 15 minutes does not work. How can i face this problem? thanks, JohnBilbo