diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index f46f1d4..042d364 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 from pycocotools.coco import COCO
 from tqdm import tqdm
 import os
+import multiprocessing
+from joblib import Parallel, delayed
 
 anns_path = './annotations/annotations.json'
 dest_path = './images/'
@@ -10,6 +12,7 @@
 
 
 def try_download(source: str, dest: str, name: str):
+    print(f'downloading {source}')
     r = requests.get(source, allow_redirects=True)
     if r.ok:
         with open(f'{dest}{name}', 'wb') as f:
@@ -25,9 +28,13 @@ def download(img: dict, dest_path: str):
 def main():
     dataset = COCO(anns_path)
 
-    for img in tqdm(dataset.imgs.values()):
-        download(img, dest_path)
+    download_pool = multiprocessing.Pool()
 
+    num_cores = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
+    nimgs = len(tqdm(dataset.imgs.values()))
+    inputs = tqdm(dataset.imgs.values())
+
+    processed_list = Parallel(n_jobs=num_cores)(delayed(download)(img, dest_path) for img in inputs)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
\ No newline at end of file
+    main()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4c6535b..dc52a96 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 requests
 pycocotools
 tqdm
+multiprocessing
+joblib