Thursday, April 3, 2008

HAM downloads






HAM downloading is a lazy way to obtain your download links, but it is rather effective. The basis of a HAM download is to grab the urls the site produces while in pause. Let's take Ann Angel as an example. Visit her site and login, go to the pictures page (if that is what you are on the look for) and rightclick anywhere and choose "Download with ReGet". I assume you have installed ReGet Deluxe and configured it to expert mode.

Once ReGet pops up you can switch tab and go to the HTTP properties tab. See it below.


Since the site is a FORM site, then we cannot use direct username and password in OEEE. We have to obtain the cookie which hold the information needed to login to the site. Mark the line and copy the cookie to your clipboard.

Now start OEEE and create a new project. Paste the cookie from your clipboard into the project. Make it look something like below.


Now change the maximum simultanious downloads in OEEE into 1. Do that by changing the Options in OEEE, see below.



With that done you hit the Suspend button so that all downloads are set to pause. After that click the Queue tab in OEEE. Now you hit Download button in OEEE (everything is in pause).

Here comes the nice thing hit F9 twice. This will turn off Suspend for a brief second (allowing the link to be downloade) and then put OEEE into Suspend mode right after that. This will make OEEE resolve the 1st download into all subsequent links in level 1. Now all you have to do is to mark all the lines you wish to download anc choose Copy URL.



You can now do paste the list back into OEEE (hit the Stop button first) or paste the url's into Notepad for some GREP processing or whatever you wish for, example deduct url filters.

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