pyLoad is a Free and Open Source download manager written entirely in Python and designed to be extremely lightweight.

pyLoad is available for all kind of operating systems and devices: You could install it on a computer, but also on a headless servers, a router, a smart usb-stick running linux... almost whatever you want!

You can control it entirely by web. Its web user interface allows full managing and easily remote access to your download from anywhere, online, or in your personal network..

All common video-sites, one-click-hosters, container formats and well known web standards are supported to allow you to download files. Additionaly, pyLoad has a great variety of plugins to automate common tasks and make unattended running possible.

pyLoad has a fully featured and well documented API, it's easily extendable and accessible by external tools, cross-platform apps or other softwares.

• You need at least Python 2.5 or at most Python 2.7 to run pyLoad and its required software libraries
• Python 3 and PyPy are not yet supported

• Beaker
• bottle
• Getch
• jinja2
• markupsafe
• MultipartPostHandler
• pycurl (python-curl)
• rename_process
• SafeEval
• simplejson required for JSON speedup
• thrift
• wsgiserver

Some addition features require additional packages.

• BeautifulSoup
• bjoern (https://github.com/jonashaag/bjoern) required for a better webui experience
• feedparser required for RSS parsing support
• node.js or ossp-js or pyv8 or rhino or spidermonkey (JS Engines) required by plugins like ClickNLoad to work correctly
• PIL (python-imaging) required for captcha recognition support
• pycrypto required for RSDF/CCF/DLC container decrypting
• pyOpenSSL required for SSL connection support
• tesseract required for captcha ocr support

You can install them using the Python Package Index:

pip install <package-name>

• Beaker
• BeautifulSoup
• bottle
• feedparser
• Getch
• jinja2
• markupsafe
• MultipartPostHandler
• rename_process
• SafeEval
• simplejson
• thrift
• wsgiserver

Note: Pre-build packages should yet include all.

Run:

python pyload.py

and follow the setup assistant instructions.

Note: If you installed pyLoad by package-manager, command python pyload.py is probably equivalent to pyload.

Additionally, you can whenever restart the setup assistant typing:

python pyload.py -s

Or you can even edit configuration files located in your pyLoad home directory (default to ~/.pyload) with your favorite editor. For a short description of all the configuration options available visit http://pyload.org/configuration.

Run:

python pyload.py

So, to retrieve it point your web browser to the socket address configured by setup (default to http://localhost:8000).

You can get the list of accepted arguments typing:

python pyload.py -h

Run:

python pyload-cli.py -l

You can get the list of accepted arguments typing:

python pyload-cli.py -h

For news, downloads, wiki, forum and further information visit http://pyload.org/.

To report bugs, suggest features, ask a question, get the developer version or help us out, visit https://github.com/pyload/pyload.

Documentation about extending pyLoad can be found at http://docs.pyload.org or joining us at #pyload on irc.freenode.net.