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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
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Connect to your slot through SSH
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Create a Python 3 virtualenv with the instructions found here or use an existing one.
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Install pyLoad-ng in the virtual Python environment
pip install pyload-ng
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Create the configuration files
pyload --dry-run
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Run these commands to edit pyLoad-ng's configuration file to use a unique port and listen on all interfaces.
sed -i 's|8000|19975|' ~/.pyload/settings/pyload.cfg sed -i 's|localhost|0.0.0.0|' ~/.pyload/settings/pyload.cfg
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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
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Access http://server.whatbox.ca:19975 with the default username
pyload
and passwordpyload
Go to http://server.whatbox.ca:19975/settings , click "Users", then click the green "change" button. Set a new secure password for the
pyload
user.
Upgrading
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Connect to your slot through SSH
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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
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Shut down pyLoad-ng
pkill -f pyload-ng
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Upgrade pyLoad-ng
pip cache purge; pip install --upgrade pyload-ng
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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