In my ongoing quest to get an free, lightweight and fast download manager with remote access ability for Raspberry Pi. I settled for Transmission to get torrent downloading and pyLoad for ftp/http downloading, however both of them have issues under limited resources of Raspberry Pi and had frequent crashes now and then.

After, a lot of research, tweaking and testing - I had finally found the best option for a perfect lightweight download manager on linux as "FatRat". Despite the name being FatRat, this open-source download manager for Linux is written in C++ and is slim on requirements, fast on performance and comes with all the bells and whistles one would need from an modern download manager including Segmented HTTP(S)/FTP downloads, FTP uploads, torrents and a super-fast web-ui for remote access.

pyLoad is an excellent cross-platform download manager with support for one-click file hosters, captcha decoding and excellent web-interface for anywhere remote control over internet.

After installing transmission torrent client on Raspberry Pi, pyLoad is an suitable choice to take of the other downloading needs like handling links from One-Click-hoster's, container formats like DLC, video sites or just plain http/ftp links. Here is an step-by-step guide to get pyLoad installed and working on Raspberry Pi.

Tired of bloated and resource hungry download-managers or just want to run a download-manager on any kind of server or embedded system?, the answer is pyLoad - A powerful download manager designed to run on very low hardware requirements, platform independently and even without the need of Graphical Output.

Beside the standard systems like Windows or Ubuntu many User successfully installed pyLoad on a great variety of systems e.g. ASUS Router, NSLU2, any OpenWRT Router, Linkstation, QNAP NAS, PlugBox, eTrayz, basically any system with a unix os and at least 32MB ram. Supporting all common One-Click-Hoster including free and premium support like Rapidshare, Hotfile, Megaupload etc., it has a GUI for desktop systems, a nice Webinterface to control your downloads with your Browser and much more features of any modern download-manager.