RapidShare

RapidShare
URL	https://www.rapidshare.com
Status	Offline
Archiving status	Partially saved
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	rapidshare-discovery, rapidshare-grab
Project tracker	rapidsharedisco, rapidshare
IRC channel	#rapidscare (on hackint)

RapidShare is a file sharing website, which shut down on March 31, 2015.

Site structure

• https://rapidshare.com/files/251393042/Google_Earth_pro_5.0.1337.rar (redirects to url below which then downloads the file)
  • https://rs602p2.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rsapi.cgi?sub=download&fileid=251393042&filename=Google_Earth_pro_5.0.1337.rar

Discovery ideas

• Try scraping rapid-search-engine.com for download links or ask its owners for the database In progress
• Get a list of valid download links from reddit. Done
• Scrape Google with the keyword "intext:rapidshare.com/files".
• Scrape URLs from the Wayback Machine. In progress
• Search in the expanded URLs derived from URLTeam? URLs have been grabbed from the torrent, URLTeam 2 results haven't been searched yet

Archives

Started March 25, 2015, finished March 31, 2015, 186 GB saved, archives to be uploaded to IA.