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How to use WGET to download from Fileserve

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wget and Fileserve cookie - Approach using Firefox and "Export Cookies add-on"

Getting the Fileserve cookie

Requirements:
-Firefox
-"Export Cookies add-on" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/

1. Install "Export Cookies add-on" and run Firefox.
2. Go to www.fileserve.com and login using your credentials
3. Inside Firefox, go to Tools->Export Cookies... and save the cookies file into a folder (Save file as FScookie.txt into your Desktop for example)
4. Now just download your fileserve links using the following command:
wget --load-cookies FScookie.txt http://www.fileserve.com/file/ZXY/docs.zip

5. [Optional] - Delete non-essential cookies from your cookies file by deleting lines from FScookie.txt that DO NOT contain fileserve.com at the beggining

Suggestion: create a nice script (sh or bat) to queue your links to wget for automated download



Update: Here is a bat file to be used with.

Requirements:
-wget for DOS (linux users shouldn't have problems adapting the code)
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

Copy and paste the following two lines into a file called FSdownload.bat and put your FS links into links.txt in the same folder.

@echo off
wget-1.12 --cookies=on --load-cookies=FScookie.txt --continue --input-file=links.txt
 
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I have trouble with filesonic cookies, they work but time out very fast. My first downloads will work but then on the next group things are strange and I may get few but not all the files. Is there a trick to get the cookie to last longer or do they only last one day or so for everyone? I installed the Firefox Cookie Editor and extend the expiry but it does not seem to work. Maybe I'm not extending the correct cookie because there are quite a few in the list.
 
Yes, thanks, that gets me the link for the id, but downloading does not occur, I don't know why.

The second tutorial example on this page is what I got

Code: 
http://www.wjunction.com/13-tutorials-guides/104281-filesonic-com-api-tutorial.html
 
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