After having been absent for a while, I’m back with a small update on my programming. Remember back when I wrote about a program that extracts RapidShare links from a site? Well, after cleaning out my Python folder from one tutorial to another, and cleaning out my Downloads folder (by deleting extracted Rars), I emptied my recycle bin… Along with my program. So, I busted my butt to write it again, but this time using wxPython, and this time in its own separate folder. Here are my results for the RSLF (RapidShare Link Finder) v. 1.01

The program is rather simple at this point. Its main functions are very self explanatory, but it still works like a charm To start, one pastes the URL of the page to scrape, and a dialog box comes up confirming whether you want to scrape or not. The RSLF then proceeds to scrape any links from the site. At this point the program only scrapes rapidshare files of the .rar type. Eventually, the program will scrape any links to the major file hosting sites (RS, MU, etc.), and file type will be specified by the user. Once the page is scraped, the file name is displayed along with a checkbox stating whether you would like to download the file or not.

At this point, the downloading part is done by opening multiple tabs in your default browser to the RS page. In further releases, the actual file will be located and automatically sent to either your brower or your DL mangaer (also specified in the Options menu). The File menu is inactive at this point, but it will eventually allow the user to save/load the list of links, so scraping is only required once.

Below are two quick pics of the program, both before and after the scraping is done. I have no plans to release the program until it employs most of the upgrades outlined above. I’m rather proud of it, and am looking forward to spending many an hour more on it.