Downloading from FileSonic

[vip_shadow]

How can I download files from FileSonic with a premium account?


thank you.

[Peter]

FileSonic uses a cookie PHPSESSID to identify you when you download, you will need to login using your premium account username and password in your browser (make sure you check the box 'Remember me') and then DownloadStudio can use this cookie to download files from FileSonic. If you are using Firefox you will need to close firefox after you login to flush the cookies to disk so that DownloadStudio can access them.

[vip_shadow]

I logged in to my Filesonic account.
Closed Firefox.
Restarted Firefox.
Tried to download a file with downloadStudio, but the downloaded file is an empty (8Kb) file.

any further help is much appreciated.

[Peter]

Have you visited the filesonic page for the download in your web browser to make sure the link is valid? If you open the downloaded 8kb file in notepad what does it show?

[vip_shadow]

the download link is valid, because I can download it with JDownloader.
If I open the downloaded file by DownloadStudio in notepad, it's reads as following.


Bad Hash


thank you for trying to help

[Peter]

The actual file download links for filesonic look like:
http://s39.filesonic.com/download/32...7814bae56e420d
This link is contained on the page:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r00021...gear_11_10.pdf

So in order to turn http://www.filesonic.com/file/r00021...gear_11_10.pdf into a valid download link DownloadStudio needs to parse the html returned by the request and find the download url. Or we can have a look a JDownloader and see what it's doing. We'll have a look at this next week and see if we can add this into DownloadStudio 7.0.

Until we make any changes, in order to download from filesonic you will need to visit the page that hosts the download link in your browser, e.g. http://www.filesonic.com/file/r00021...gear_11_10.pdf, and click on the download link so that DownloadStudio can catch the download for you.