Not (easily) scriptable via command-line, multiple issues

[CyberShadow]

Sorry for the quick & dirty report, just wanted to leave some feedback as I don't have much time to spend on this.

What was advertised:

Currently there are [...], command line interface, [...]

What I thought I would get:

python pyload.py http://www123.zippyshare.com/v/abcdefgh/file.html -o C:\Downloads\myfile.zip

What I got:

• broken download page - all the links on http://pyload.org/download are broken
• complicated build from source due to the pycurl dependency (which in turn requires manual installation of the correct libcurl version on Windows)
• an installation and setup wizard for things that I did not need (remote access, web interface...)
• a service that has to run in the background even though I only need to download one file at a time
• a command-line interface that can't even do something as simple as "download this URL to this path, wait until the download is done, and exit".

A scriptable command-line interface is the one HUGE thing missing from e.g. JDownloader, and is required for automation. Without one, this project is not useful to me as is, sorry. I hope you'll find this feedback useful.

[GammaC0de]

• This is a known issue (#1648 , #1791), use https://github.com/pyload/pyload/releases instead.
• The release package includes a setup utility and most if not all of the dependencies including pycurl
• Have you tried pyLoadCli utility?

[CyberShadow]

This is a known issue (#1648 , #1791), use https://github.com/pyload/pyload/releases instead.

Perhaps you should update the website until the underlying problem is resolved.

The release package includes a setup utility and most if not all of the dependencies including pycurl

The setup utility is part of the problem, for my use case. I do not need to answer a quiz to install wget / curl / aria2 / plowshare.

Have you tried pyLoadCli utility?

Yes, I could not figure out how to accomplish the simple task described. There is a command to add a download, but not to wait until it completes. I also did not see a way to change the download directory per-download. Essentially I was looking for a tool that worked like wget. I have moved on and found plowshare's plowget script to do what I needed.

[GammaC0de]

Perhaps you should update the website until the underlying problem is resolved.

This is for @vuolter to solve, not me.

PyLoad is intended to be an embedded download manager to run on NAS devices, hence its design is web interface oriented. Beeing so, it has much smaller user audience and developers (in fact is has currently one main developer) than JDownloader, so it most certainly less feature rich than JDownloader

[ghost]

If you wan't to add links by commandline, I recommend the api: http://docs.pyload.org/module/module.Api.Api.html

[vuolter]

CLI was removed in 0.4.10 in favor of restful api, that will be improved in 0.5.3 (if we'll never).

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