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pyLoad

The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python

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Status

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  • pyLoad Next, the newest version of pyLoad which resides in the master branch and is deployed as pyload-ng on PyPI. It only works on Python 3.6+ and it's in pre-alpha phase right now.

  • pyLoad Stable, the old production ready grade version of pyLoad, which resides in the stable branch and is compatible with Python 2 only.

This README covers everything regarding the first one only.

Installation

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To install pyLoad, type the command:

pip install pyload-ng

This will install in your system the latest stable release of pyLoad.

Note: No stable releases are available at the moment.

Available modules

  • pyload.core: pyLoad's heart, you can't do anything without it!
  • pyload.plugins: the complete collection of all supported plugins for pyLoad.
  • pyload.webui: just a way to interact with pyLoad, web proof of course.

Extra Dependencies

You can install all the recommended packages for pyLoad at once.

Append the tag extra to the installation command:

pip install pyload-ng[extra]

Available tags

  • extra: recommended extra packages.
  • build: packages required to build locales.
  • all: all of them.

You can also use more tags together:

pip install pyload-ng[extra][build]

Development Releases

You can force the installation of the latest development release of pyLoad, appending the option --pre to the installation command:

pip install --pre pyload-ng

Do not use development releases in production. Unexpected crashes may occur.

Build Translations

Note: You do not have to build any locale file if you installed pyLoad through pip, because they're all already included.

Use the command build_locale to retrieve and build the latest locale files (translations) for your installation:

python setup.py build_locale

It should be invoked before launching any other build/installation command (eg. bdist_wheel).

Usage

usage: pyload [-h] [--version] [-d] [--userdir USERDIR] [--tempdir TEMPDIR]
              [--daemon] [--restore]

The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python

optional arguments:
  -h, --help               show this help message and exit
  --version                show program's version number and exit
  -d, --debug              enable debug mode
  --userdir USERDIR        use this location to store user data files
  --tempdir TEMPDIR        use this location to store temporary files
  --storagedir STORAGEDIR  use this location to save downloads
  --daemon                 run as daemon
  --restore                reset default username/password

To start pyLoad, type the command:

pyload

This will create the following directories (if they do not already exist):

  • ~/Downloads/pyLoad: where downloads will be saved.
  • ~/.pyload: where configuration files are stored.
  • <TMPDIR>/pyLoad: where temporary files are stored.

On Windows systems data files are saved in the directory ~\AppData\Roaming\pyLoad.

The location of <TMPDIR> is platform-specific.

Command Options

To show an overview of the available options, type:

pyload --help

Web Interface

Open your web browser and visit the url http://localhost:8000 to have access to the pyLoad's web interface.

  • Default username: pyload.
  • Default password: pyload.

It's highly recommended to change the default access credentials on first start.

Docker Images [experimental]

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Available images

  • pyload/pyload:ubuntu: default docker image for pyLoad.
  • pyload/pyload:alpine: alternative docker image for pyLoad (smaller, maybe slower).
  • pyload/pyload: alias of pyload/pyload:ubuntu.

Create Container

docker create --name=pyload -v <USERDIR>:/config -v <STORAGEDIR>:/downloads --restart unless-stopped pyload/pyload

Replace <STORAGEDIR> with the location on the host machine where you want that downloads will be saved.

Replace <USERDIR> with where you want that user data files (configurations) are stored.

Start Container

docker start pyload

Stop Container

docker stop pyload

Show Logs

docker logs -f pyload

Docker Compose

Compatible with docker-compose v2 schemas:

---
version: 2
services:
  pyload:
    image: pyload/pyload
    container_name: pyload
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - <USERDIR>:/config
      - <STORAGEDIR>:/downloads
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
    restart: unless-stopped

Replace <STORAGEDIR> with the location on the host machine where you want that downloads will be saved.

Replace <USERDIR> with where you want that user data files (configurations) are stored.

Troubleshooting

Installation

If the installation fails due any of the listed errors, retry applying the given solution:

pip not found

Retry replacing the command pip with pip3:

pip3 install pyload-ng

If still fails you may not have already installed on your system the Python interpreter or the pip package manager. Or maybe something else got corrupted somehow...

The easiest way to fix this error is to (re)install Python.

Visit https://www.python.org/downloads to get the proper Python 3 release for your system.

pyload-ng not found

Check the version of the Python interpreters installed on your system.

To show the version of your default Python interpreter, type the command:

python --version

If the version is too old, try to upgrage Python, then you can retry to install pyLoad.

Python releases below version 3.6 are not supported!

Setuptools is too old

To upgrade the setuptools package, type the command:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

Permission denied

Under Unix-based systems, try to install pyLoad with root privileges.

Prefix the installation command with sudo:

sudo pip install pyload-ng

Under Windows systems, open a Command Prompt as administrator to install pyLoad with root privileges.

You can also try to install the pyload-ng package without root privileges.

Append the option --user to the installation command:

pip install --user pyload-ng

Uninstallation

To uninstall pyLoad, type the command:

pip uninstall pyload-ng

Note: This will not remove any installed dependencies.

Permission denied

Under Unix-based systems, try to uninstall pyLoad with root privileges.

Prefix the installation command with sudo:

sudo pip uninstall pyload-ng

Under Windows systems, open a Command Prompt as administrator to uninstall pyLoad with root privileges.

Licensing

Open Source License

You are allowed to use this software under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Please refer to the included LICENSE for the full license.

Alternative License

With an explicit permission of the authors you may use or distribute this software under a different license according to the agreement.

Contributor License Agreement

Please refer to the included CLA for the full agreement conditions.

This is essentially what you will be agreeing to:

  • You claim to have the right to make the contribution (i.e. it's your own work).
  • You grant the project a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use the contribution.
  • You grant the project rights to change the outbound license that we use to distribute the code.
  • You retain full ownership (copyright) of your submission and are free to do with it as you please.

Contact us at licensing@pyload.net for any question about our code licensing policy.

Credits

Please refer to the included AUTHORS for the full credits.



© 2020 pyLoad team

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