How To Find Anything on Rapidshare
January 23rd, 2009by andy 
I’ve become a bit of a Rapidshare fan lately.
It seems you can find just about any music or film on there pretty much straightaway. I did sign up for a premium account, but it has been well worth the money.
You can still use Rapidshare without a premium account, it’s just much slower.
I’ve found various instructions around the web on searching for Rapidshare files – mostly rubbish. Here’s what you need to do:
Using rapidshare.com/files at the beginning of the search ensures that any pages returned by Google include that exact text – which is how all Rapidshare files are described.
Just using that search on its own Google shows 77 million results – from all over the web. Look:
So by adding the name of what you are looking for (american idol in the first example) in inverted commas, you are looking for any page that has the correct file path for Rapidshare, as well as the name of the media you are looking for, as an exact phrase.
I’ve not yet been disappointed by what I can find like this. I’ve found music from years ago that I thought was lost forever.
You’ll find the Rapidshare files are in lists of several links – so you have to download several files and then expand them – a simple job using winrar on the PC or the archiving utility on the mac. There are also Rapidshare download managers available to make the whole job easier. I haven’t tried those – one has just been released for the mac though.
So you’re basically searching other websites for lists of the Rapidshare links that you want. Many sites don’t link up the links as normal – meaning a lot of copy and pasting is required. This can be avoided by using the linkify plugin if you are a firefox user.
This simple plugin just makes links clickable for you if they are not. Very handy.
You’ll find a lot of the same sites coming up – Hotfilms.org is pretty expansive, if a little slow – and there are plenty of others.
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