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How can I copy a bunch of links which have been shortened?

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Firefox:
If you have a RapidShare Premium account you can use download manager (FlashGet, for example) to download all links at once, but sometimes our website shortens the links and they are displayed with "..." at the end.

Solution 1: Use Firefox and an addon called "Copy Links". ( Download here. ) With this litle extension of Firefox you have to select the links, click the right mousebutton and choose "copy selected links". BAM - he copys all selected links. That's all!

We tweaked the orginal "copy links" plugin. It allowes you to copy just Rapidshare links, store the links into a txt file on your harddrive and if you copy them together with a password it will be saved too.
Download here: copy_links-0.1.6-fx_mod0.1.6.1_rapidshare.xpi

Solution 2: Use Firefox and an addon called "FlashGot" can be found here  With this little extension for Firefox you have to select the links, right-click with your mouse on the links and choose "FlashGot Selection". This will transfer the links into your download manager, which, of course, must be selected first in FlashGot options of Firefox: Tools --> FlashGot --> More Options.

IE:
Same for IE-Users, with FlashGet installed, in the context menu (right-click anywhere on the page) you will find an option "Download all with FlashGet", choose that and it will open new window in FlashGet. In order to not download all the other images, links and other unnecessary files on that page, you have to press Options in the newly-opened FlashGet window, there you select that it only downloads files with .rar extension. As simple as that, now pressing OK will start downloading the files. Unfortunately this doesn't work with .001 extensions. You have to manually tick them in the FlashGet window (takes about 3 seconds).

OPERA:
1. Download this file operaget132.rar
2. Extract all files to a folder. (c:\program files\OperaGet)
3. Run "og_install.bat" to register the DLL. You may need to include the complete path of regsvr32.exe in the batch file.
4. Find out where your profile folder is. It is available from Opera's file menu (Help >> About). Remember the path 5. Copy the included menu file, mymenu.ini, to the menu subfolder under the profile folder
6. Replace the path of OperaGet in the custom menu file to match your installation
7. In Opera, open the preference window by pressing "ALT+P" or "Tools >> Preferences" from the file menu
8. Select "Toolbars and Menus" (Opera 7) or "Advanced >> Toolbars" (Opera 8,9)
9.Select "MyMenu" in the "Menu Setup" box
10.Click "Apply" then "OK" (Opera 7) or "OK" (Opera 8,9) to exit the preference window
11.Now right click on a webpage you should see a "Download all with OperaGet " option.

Note: Step 6 may or may not be needed.