Plowshare Installation

Plowhsare main site:

https://github.com/mcrapet/plowshare/blob/master/INSTALL

How To Install Plowshare:

From Source:

mkdir -p ~/plowshare
cd ~/plowshare
git clone https://github.com/mcrapet/plowshare.git
cd plowshare
make install

And modules:

mkdir -p ~/.config/plowshare/modules.d
cd ~/.config/plowshare/modules.d
curl -L -k https://github.com/mcrapet/plowshare-modules-legacy/archive/master.tar.gz | tar zxf -
mv plowshare-modules-legacy-master legacy

In CentOs:

yum install plowshare

TroubleShooting

Error:

You get this file trying a leech:

Error: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------[0m

Look in the admin area logs. If you should see the following:

Your plowshare installation has currently no module.
(/.config/plowshare/modules.d/ is empty)

Fix:

This is an issue around the environment variables and paths PHP sets up. Via SSH find the correct path to the modules:

locate /plowshare/modules.d/

Copy the modules (in the path shown by the above command) to the path in the error logs: (replace the paths below as you need)

mkdir -p /.config/plowshare/modules.d
cp -r /root/.config/plowshare/modules.d/ /.config/plowshare/

This should correct the issue above.


Error:

Plowshare works on the command line but not via the script. The script logs show the following:

Your plowshare installation has currently no module.
(/dev/null/.config/plowshare/modules.d/ is empty)

Check the Nginx homedir (as the script runs under this user when not using Apache):

$ cat /etc/passwd
nginx:x:1001:1001::/dev/null:/sbin/nologin

If it's /dev/null you should apply the following fix.

Fix:

$ mkdir /home/nginx
$ chown nginx:nginx /home/nginx
$ chmod 700 /home/nginx
$ service nginx stop
$ usermod --home /home/nginx nginx
$ service nginx start
$ mkdir -p /home/nginx/.config/plowshare/
$ cp -r /root/.config/plowshare/modules.d/ /home/nginx/.config/plowshare/

Reboot the server after these changes.

$ reboot

Source - https://rapidgator.net/file/994c39b9fd20c41bf02be6fbbaaa8b46

Usage examples

All five scripts share the same verbose options: -v0 (alias: -q), -v1 (errors only), -v2 (infos message; default), -v3 (show all messages), -v4(show all messages, HTML pages and cookies, use this for bug report).

Download

• Download a file from RapidShare:

$ plowdown http://www.rapidshare.com/files/86545320/Tux-Trainer_25-01-2008.rar

• Download a file from HotFile using an account (free or premium):

$ plowdown -a myuser:mypassword http://hotfile.com/dl/68261330/2f2926f/

Note: Don't forget to simple quote if your credentials have got characters that bash can interpret. For example: 'matt:foo$bar' or 'matt:foo+ -bar'.

• Download a file from Oron with Antigate.com service (feature added since 2012.02.01):

$ plowdown --antigate=key http://oron.com/dw726z0ohky5

• Download a file from Oron with Death by Captcha service (feature added since 2012.05.04):

$ plowdown --deathbycaptcha='user:pass' http://oron.com/dw726z0ohky5

• Download a file from RapidShare with a proxy. curl supports http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables (notice that 3128 is the default port).

$ export http_proxy=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80
$ plowdown http://www.rapidshare.com/files/86545320/Tux-Trainer_25-01-2008.rar

• Download a list of links (one link per line):

$ cat file_with_links.txt
# This is a comment
http://depositfiles.com/files/abcdefghi
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/86545320/Tux-Trainer_25-01-2008.rar
$ plowdown file_with_links.txt

• Download a list of links (one link per line) commenting out (with #) those successfully downloaded:

$ plowdown -m file_with_links.txt

• Limit the download rate (in bytes per second). Accepted prefixes are k, K, Ki, M, m, Mi:

$ plowdown --max-rate 900K http://www.rapidshare.com/files/86545320/Tux-Trainer_25-01-2008.rar

• Download a password-protected link from Mediafire:

$ plowdown -p somepassword http://www.mediafire.com/?mt0egmhietj60iy

• Avoid never-ending downloads: limit the number of tries (for captchas) and wait delays for each link:

$ plowdown --max-retries=20 --timeout=3600 ...