Rapidshare

Description

This gem provides a wrapper for RapidShare API.

Full documentation of RapidShare API is available at http://images.rapidshare.com/apidoc.txt

Installation

gem install rapidshare

Usage

This example shows a simple script which downloads files from Rapidshare:

require 'rubygems'
require 'rapidshare'

files_to_download = %w{
  https://rapidshare.com/files/829628035/HornyRhinos.jpg
  https://rapidshare.com/files/428232373/HappyHippos.jpg
  https://rapidshare.com/files/766059293/ElegantElephants.jpg
}

rs = Rapidshare::API.new(:login => 'my_login', :password => 'my_password')

files_to_download.each do |file|
  result = rs.download(file)

  unless result.downloaded? 
    puts "[#{file}] cannot be downloaded: #{result.error}"
  end
end

Login

Rapidshare gem is meant to be used mostly by premium users. In order to call Rapidshare services as premium user, you need to log in first, using your login and password.

rs = Rapidshare::API.new(:login => 'my_login', :password => 'my_password')

Alternatively you can use cookie parameter, which stores encrypted login and password parameters.

rs = Rapidshare::API.new(:cookie => 'my_cookie')

Best practice is to use cookie. You probably don't want to enter your Rapidshare password every time or have it stored in some config file on your hard drive.

How to get Rapidshare cookie

Rapidshare::API.new(:login => 'my_login', :password => 'my_password').cookie

Rapidshare Services

Get Account Details

rs.get_account_details

Check Files

rs.check_files(
  'https://rapidshare.com/files/829628035/HornyRhinos.jpg',
  'https://rapidshare.com/files/428232373/HappyHippos.jpg',
  'https://rapidshare.com/files/766059293/ElegantElephants.jpg'
)

Download File

rs.download('https://rapidshare.com/files/829628035/HornyRhinos.jpg')

Download workflow: file is checked by API#check_files method first. If it can be downloaded, progress bar is shown for download and afterwards API instance is returned with downloaded attribute set to true. If the file is invalid, API instance is returned with downloaded attribute set to (wait for it) false. (downloaded attribute is also accessible by downloaded? method.)

Service Calls

All calls to Rapidshare services are done internally by API#request method:

Syntax:

request(service_name, params_in_hash)

Example:

Rapidshare::API.request(:getaccountdetails, :login => 'my_login', :password => 'my_password')

Use this method to call Rapidshare services which don't have dedicated methods available.

Parser Parameter

API#request method has an optional parameter :parser which specifies how to parse the response from Rapidshare. (Rapidshare doesn't unified API, there are several "types" of responses.) Following options are supported at the moment:

• :none - default, returns response body as it is
• :csv - parses response like CSV file into array of arrays
• :hash - parses response like a hash - key=value strings separated by newlines

Example:

rs.request(:getaccountdetails, :parser => :hash)

PS: cookie is automatically added if you call request method on a API instance.

Method Missing

Let's say you want to call service for which rapidshare gem doesn't have dedicated method yet, for example: getrapidtranslogs . While you can explicitly call API#request method:

rs.request(:getrapidtranslogs, :parser => 'csv')

the cooler way is to make a service call using API#method_missing:

rs.getrapidtranslogs(:parser => 'csv')

If you call an uknown method on API instance, missing_method assumes that you want to make a service call to Rapidshare and invokes the request method, using the missing method name as service name and passing any available params. For example:

rs.getrapidtranslogs(:parser => 'csv')

invokes

rs.request(:getrapidtranslogs, :parser => 'csv')

method_missing also removes any underscores from the service name, so these method calls are equivalent:

rs.getrapidtranslogs == rs.get_rapid_trans_logs

PS: This is used for aliasing dedicated methods as well: rs.get_account_details invokes rs.getaccountdetails. In this case the corresponding dedicated method is called instead of low-level request method, because we check for existense of dedicated method first.

Examples

In examples directory you will other examples of using Rapidshare gem. Among other things there are scripts which can serve as simple download clients.

License

Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Tomasz Mazur, Lukas Stejskal