pyLoad
Lightweight, customizable and remotely manageable downloader for 1-click-hosting sites like rapidshare.com or uploaded.to.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 60 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.4.x (Jan 2026).
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At a glance
pyLoad quick facts
- Health score
- 79/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 3,903
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.4.x, Jan 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "pyLoad is a lightweight, pure-Python download manager with a modern web UI and rich plugin ecosystem. It automates downloads from one-click hosters, cloud drives, and many other sources; supports premium accounts, captcha-solving services, and link decryption; and can run headless on servers, NAS devices, or desktops. Designed for extensibility and low resource usage."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
pyLoad scores 79/100, #19 of 32 in Automation: 60 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.4.x, 10 months ago) earns 19.3 of 25, 3,903 stars add 14.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
60 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 19.3 / 25
v0.4.x released 10 months ago
- Stars 14.4 / 20
3.9k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 60
- Last 90 days
- 355
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #19 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between OliveTin (#18) and ChiefOnboarding (#20) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | v0.4.x · 10 months ago |
| Stars | 3,903 |
| Open issues | 183 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | pyload/pyload ↗ |
pyLoad vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with pyLoad (Automation), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Airflow | 99 | 47k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Activepieces | 98 | 25k | MIT | today |
| changedetection.io | 98 | 35k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Kestra | 98 | 30k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| pyLoad (this tool) | 79 | 3.9k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Mylar3 | 58 | 128 | GPL-3.0 | 2 months ago |
pyLoad: common questions
Is pyLoad still maintained?
pyLoad had 60 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.4.x, is from 10 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.