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pyLoad, lightweight and powerful one-click hoster download manager
Its functionality is similar to JDownloader with the aim to be extrem lightweight and stable to run smooth on servers or hardware routers. As of now there are several tutorials available to install pyLoad on a Buffalo Linkstation Live or ASUS router. Once installed downloads can be added and controlled via a GUI, Terminal or web interface from wherever you are.
It supports all one-click hoster "waiting time" and CAPTCHA recognitions, enabling batch downloads without user input. One-click hoster Premium users have the added advantage of using multiple connections per downloaded file, without any waiting time. Furthermore it supports link decrypter as well as all important container formats.
pyLoad is definitely worth a look and easily replaced JDownloader on my system. The latest stable version is available for download here. If you're a Linux user Python comes with your system from the box, Windows and Mac users should follow the install instructions from the official pyLoad wiki.
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Subscribe to commentsjkroederFeb 17th 2010 10:59AM
Thanks. jDownloader works great but it's startup time is just a little too long because of the dependence on java it seems. Even on my system using an SSD, it probably takes about 20 seconds to become usable.
I'll give pyLoad a shot
Oliver KomadinaFeb 17th 2010 11:09AM
Yep, you're right: JDownloader CAN take much time (20 seconds IS much IMHO) to start up, this is because of the java dependancy.
However, the speed of a SSD pays out by opening/view/editing large files - such as the booting of a OS.
Give it a shot, it's boosted well by the Ubuntu community and updated regulary.
216Feb 17th 2010 11:05AM
hmm if you say its better than jDownloader....I'll give it a chance
MedlirFeb 17th 2010 1:43PM
haha, lightweight?
Don't bother if you're using Windows, and not a Python developer yourself because you have to download 311 megs of installers and zip archives for additional libraries and runtimes before you can use it. I'm not sure how large it adds up to once you actually extract everything.
I'm sure if you have everything required already (i.e. on Linux), it's probably great, but needing a download manager to download everything required to download a download manager is silly.
Oliver KomadinaFeb 17th 2010 1:52PM
lightweight because it runs on an ASUS WL-HDD hardware router with 125Mhz - meaning you can run pyLoad on almost every machine. The memory management is very good, too.
The needed Phyton dependancies are downloaded once. Java doesn't run on Windows machines out of the box aswell. So I don't get your argument with the need to download large filepackages in times of T1 or greater.
AndrewFeb 17th 2010 4:26PM
The application has some errors and doesn't run in Ubuntu Karmic (I've installed all the dependencies), both the stable and the hg repository version. I get a constant "no urls in the links.txt". I run "python module/web/manage.py syncdb" like stated in the HG version but still getting that error.
I've found a .deb file on the website, but that doesn't work and has a lot of errors too, like the Desktop file is only in German and links to /usr/bin/pyLoadGui while the executable name is pyLoadGUI, even the /usr/bin/pyLoadGUI file links to pyLoadGui.py which should be pyLoadGUI.py, etc.
I would have loved to try it. I guess I'll wait until an actual 'stable' or at least working version is out.
Oliver KomadinaFeb 17th 2010 4:32PM
The "no url" bug has been reported to the devs, looks like more *buntu users are experiencing this error. Looks like this came up with the latest release of pyLoad.
However I can confirm that pyLoad is running smooth on my Karmic machine, maybe you should check your configuration file.
AndrewFeb 17th 2010 4:39PM
Like I said, I've tried 3 different versions, none working so I think there's nothing wrong at my end, especially when there are some clear misspelling errors :)