If you find it tough to solve the complex Cat CAPTCHA images in RapidShare or need to download multiple files in one session, try postponing your downloads until the happy hour is active.
During the ‘happy hour’ period, even free users of RapidShare get to download files instantly without solving any tough CAPTCHAs.
While restaurants and bars have ‘happy hours’ only during late afternoons, RapidShare activates their ‘happy hour’ for 18 consecutive hours on weekdays and for 14 hours on weekends starting at midnight British Summer time (UTC+1) or 5:30 AM if you’re in India.
There are some Firefox extensions and desktop utilities that can run in the background to check if the happy hour is active over at RapidShare but you may not need them – just create an event in Outlook or Google Calendar that will automatically remind you when the happy hours go active and start the downloads.
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Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/rapidshare-happy-hours-dowload-without-waiting-time-captcha/3739/
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Reader Comments
Yes, I ran into one of those about a few weeks back. It saved me having to buy a days worth of subscription :)
Btw, the happy checker for Rapidshare is called Happychecker (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7353)
Written by Mayuresh Kadu on 06.30.08
was familiar to this
but was not knowing timings
thanks for it…..
Written by Sarv007 on 06.30.08
Amit, what’s up buddy? Loosing class?
Written by NameDoesntMatter on 06.30.08
Thnx for the info Amit…but I still don’t understand the timings. “for 18 consecutive hours on weekdays”…starting on which weekday?
Written by DWiner on 06.30.08
That is so cool. Happy rapidsharing!
Written by Avinash on 06.30.08
18 consecutive hours? daily?
so that means only 6hrs a day that would be limited?
Written by waynester on 06.30.08
nice info
thanks to the user who pointed out the handy firefox extension ;)
~$udhi :)
Written by Sudhi on 06.30.08
Amit, RapidShare no longer uses CAT CAPTCHA…
Written by RaymondCC on 06.30.08
Thank you for the timings and for the addon.
Falkor
Written by Falkor on 06.30.08
Never knew this. If there are 18 Happy Hours, why didnt I come across it even once. I download goddies via rapidshare every other day. Now I know the best time to do that.
Written by Arun Basil Lal on 06.30.08
happy hour’ for 18 consecutive hours on weekdays and for 14 hours on weekends?
which weekday ( everyday? what time? ), and which weekend ( Sat or Sun? )
Written by JK on 07.03.08
Happy hours is so damn slow!!
anyone feel the same?
Written by Dawnz on 07.03.08
The happy hours are not increasing the speed of the downloads anyways , so the better solution would be just spending 10$ or how does it much for a premium account ? And download being happy for a whole month.. ;)
I don’t know it seems like a good option at least..
Written by Dezeray on 10.17.08