How Can I Upload to Rapidshare.com using PHP Script

[msmp3]

Hello,

I want to know if it's possible to upload a file to www.rapidshare.com using a PHP script that resides on my site and then retrieve the URL of the uploaded file?

Rapidshare offers a script to do this, but it's written in Perl and I do not know this language at all.

Does someone know how to make this work in PHP, or somehow integrate that Perl Script into PHP so it can upload/retrieve uploaded URL?

I have attached the Perl Script offered by Rapidshare.

[matthewrobertbell]

Use CURL to POST the file to rapidshare, then scrape the returned page for the information you need.

Your php script might time out though, while the file is uploading.

[msmp3]

Why do you say it will timeout? Isn't the same as if someone would upload a file on my site using PHP?

[matthewrobertbell]

Ah yea, maybe.
If it does timeout, you could always use set_time_limit().

[madmax728]

<form name="ul" method="post" action="http://rs97l3.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/upload.cgi?rsuploadid=99619963777997544" enctype="multipart/form-data" onsubmit="document.ul.u.value='Please wait ...';document.ul.u.disabled=true">
<a href="#" onclick="switchfiles()">Multi-Upload</a> Choose your upload-datapath: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cogent <input name="mirror" type="radio" onclick="document.ul.action='http://rs97cg.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/upload.cgi?rsuploadid=99619963777997544';document.ul.u.value='Upload via Cogent'">
Level(3) <input checked name="mirror" type="radio" onclick="document.ul.action='http://rs97l3.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/upload.cgi?rsuploadid=99619963777997544';document.ul.u.value='Upload via Level(3)'">
Telia <input name="mirror" type="radio" onclick="document.ul.action='http://rs97tl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/upload.cgi?rsuploadid=99619963777997544';document.ul.u.value='Upload via Telia'"><br>
<div id="files"><input type="file" size="64" name="filecontent"> <input type="submit" name="u" value="Upload!"></div></form>

[madmax728]

But the problem is
This value rsuploadid=99619963777997544
keeps on changing,
So this method cannot be used.

[Vbot]

Why not login to your rapidshare account then use remote upload instead.

[msmp3]

Why not login to your rapidshare account then use remote upload instead.

I would like to do this automatically... this is why Remote Upload option is not suitable....

[coderlinks]

Well,
You would have to first fetch the Upload page ( In this case http://rapidshare.com/ )using Curl. Parse the page using regular expressions to find that unique submit url using the preg_match function. Then POST the file to that page.

~
Thomas

[msmp3]

I'm going to try something like @coderlinks said... see if it works :)