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Initial Setup

Pyload

Free and Open Source download manager written in Python and designed to be extremely lightweight, easily extensible, and fully manageable via web UI. It has support for many of the popular hosting sites with premium account abilities, including multi-hoster sites.

The default Download folder: "/downloads" is mapped to "/home/your_username/downloads/pyload".

Top Row Options:

Option Use
HomeDashboard BringMain you back to your home pageOverview
Queue Monitor the current download queue
CollectorThing of this as a pre-stage queue, this is where links are stored prior to pushing them to your actual download queue
DownloadsPackages A list of completed downloads, much like Chrome/Firefoxthe download historypackages.
FilesA list of files that are part of a download.
Logs This is a more precise look at what pyload is doing which is helpful for troubleshooting issuesissues.
AdministrationThis is the user management where you can add and delete users with access and also change your username and password
ConfigSettings This is the heart of the critical settings of Pyload; here is where you would add your file hoster’s credentials. Change hoster plugin settings, and set the number of parallel downloads.