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pyLoad is a "Free and Open Source download manager written in Python and designed to be extremely lightweight, easily extensible and fully manageable via web".

pyLoad-ng (Python 3)

Installation

1. Connect to your slot through SSH

2. Create a Python 3 virtualenv with the instructions found here or use an existing one.

3. Install pyLoad-ng in the virtual Python environment

    pip install pyload-ng
   

4. Create the configuration files

    pyload --dry-run
   

5. Run these commands to edit pyLoad-ng's configuration file to use a unique port and listen on all interfaces.

    sed -i 's|8000|16804|' ~/.pyload/settings/pyload.cfg
    sed -i 's|localhost|0.0.0.0|' ~/.pyload/settings/pyload.cfg
   

6. Launch the pyLoad-ng daemon. If your virtualenv is in a different directory than ~/virtualenv you will need to edit this command.

    ~/virtualenv/bin/pyload --daemon
   

7. Access http://server.whatbox.ca:16804 with the default username pyload and password pyload

   Go to http://server.whatbox.ca:16804/settings , click "Users", then click the green "change" button. Set a new secure password for the pyload user.

Upgrading

1. Connect to your slot through SSH

2. Activate your Python 3 virtualenv where pyLoad-ng is installed. If your virtualenv is in a different directory than ~/virtualenv you will need to edit this command.

    source ~/virtualenv/bin/activate
   

3. Shut down pyLoad-ng

    pkill -f pyload-ng
   

4. Upgrade pyLoad-ng

    pip cache purge; pip install --upgrade pyload-ng
   

5. Launch the pyLoad-ng daemon. If your virtualenv is in a different directory than ~/virtualenv you will need to edit this command.

    ~/virtualenv/bin/pyload --daemon