As you know Megaupload was shut down on January 2012, but I leave the script anyway for those interested in Bash programming.

Introduction

megaupload-dl downloads files from Megaupload (free download, no account required). It is a shell script (Bash), so you will need a UNIX-like operating system (GNU/Linux, BSD, OSX, Cygwin, ...).

This script is free-software licensed under the GNU/GPL3.

Dependencies

You will need bash (>= 3), curl, and recode (optional). On a Debian-based distro this should suffice:

$ sudo apt-get install curl recode

Download & Install

megaupload-dl.sh (details)

$ wget http://tokland.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/filesharing/megaupload-dl.sh
$ sudo install megaupload-dl.sh /usr/local/bin/megaupload-dl

Usage examples

Download a single file:

$ megaupload-dl http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S9BJRU17
lao_tzu-the_tao_te_ching.pdf

Download a password-protected file:

$ megaupload-dl -p tokland http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FDPAE94B
xkcd2.jpg

Download a file using extra curl options:

$ megaupload-dl -o "--limit-rate 50K" http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S9BJRU17
lao_tzu-the_tao_te_ching.pdf

Check if a link is alive:

$ megaupload-dl -c http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S9BJRU17

Download a list of files:

$ xargs -d"\n" -n1 megaupload-dl < file_with_one_link_per_line.txt

Build a safe queue downloader

Download and install these three scripts: worker, loop and megaupload-dl-batch.

$ megaupload-dl-batch file_with_links.txt

How it works: worker comments out links in file_with_links.txt with # (if successful) or #error (if unsuccessful), while loop executes worker until it succeeds. This way all links in file_with_links.txt will be eventually downloaded or marked with a non-retryable error.

Motivation

This script is about programming: how to write a minimal shell script downloader with modular, compact and clean code. If you feel the script does not fulfill this goal in any aspect, feel free to contact me.

If you only want to automatically download from file-sharing sites you should check plowshare, it supports lots of sites and it's highly configurable.

Feedback

• Email: Arnau Sanchez <tokland AT gmail.com>
• Report bugs/suggestions: http://code.google.com/p/tokland/issues/list