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Posted December 14, 2016
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adaliabooks: This is an imperfect method, as it only gets (what I believe is) the size listed on the game page for the install rather than the actual size of the installers / patches and doesn't include extras, but it's at least a rough estimate and somewhere to start from.

So, first step is to go here and follow the instructions.
This will import your owned games on to MaGog (also your wishlisted games, but that's not important for this).

Then go here.
Under filters select 'My Tags', 'is any of' and 'owned' for the only row.
Make sure 'File Size' is ticked under Display (you can tick or untick as many other boxes as you want, just make sure that one is set)
And in the Options section change Output Format to JSON.
You could output this as HTML and do it manually (it does include all the sizes for the bonuses etc. too), unfortunately the formatting doesn't lend itself to scraping easily.

Otherwise, once on the JSON output page, run this script from your browser's console. It should give you an output in MB of the size of your library.

var searchResult = JSON.parse(document.body.innerText);
var array = searchResult['magog_search_results'];
var librarySize = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
{
librarySize += array[i]["file_size_mb"];
}
console.log(librarySize + " mb");
Wow thanks a lot for the tutorial! But can this really be correct? 1101389 mb is what it said my total library is for around 628 games in the library.

edit - Well I guess that is around a bit over 1tb, I guess I could believe that. It looks like I'll be getting a 2tb external to store my games. Thanks so much for the info!
Post edited December 14, 2016 by Gylfe
Posted December 14, 2016
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Links: It is still quite off, I will get a more accurate count manually, to include the games with size issues and the big goodies not included in the installers (OSTs mainly).
Some stuff in the goodies are even bigger than that. For instance in The Witcher 3, even if you want to download only the English Windows version, these are included into the goodies by default:

goodies pack (russian) 770 MB
goodies pack (polish) 1340 MB
goodies pack (german) 1300 MB
goodies pack (french) 1300 MB
goodies pack (spanish) 542 MB
goodies pack (italian) 539 MB

And e.g. Planescape: Torment has among other things also these in its extras by default:

Windows Russian localization (Fargus) 1100 MB
Mac Russian localization (Fargus) 1200 MB
Linux Russian localization (Fargus) 1300 MB

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Gylfe: Wow thanks a lot for the tutorial! But can this really be correct? 1101389 mb is what it said my total library is for around 628 games in the library.

edit - Well I guess that is around a bit over 1tb, I guess I could believe that. It looks like I'll be getting a 2tb external to store my games. Thanks so much for the info!
With 1327 titles, counting only English Windows versions + goodies, I think I am currently slightly past the 2 terabyte size. So for me even 2 terabytes is not enough at the moment, which is why I am hoping for gogrepo.py to get a feature to automatically divide your GOG collection under two or more different paths (partitions/drives), just so that I don't have to buy a new 4 TB external hard drive just because of this, but can use my existing two 2TB USB drives. :)

But as said, if you want to count also Linux/Mac versions and other language versions (for those games that have them), the data amount will be even higher. I wouldn't be surprised my collection would then be well over 3TB (just guessing, might be even more)..
Post edited December 14, 2016 by timppu
Posted December 14, 2016
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Gylfe: Wow thanks a lot for the tutorial! But can this really be correct? 1101389 mb is what it said my total library is for around 628 games in the library.

edit - Well I guess that is around a bit over 1tb, I guess I could believe that. It looks like I'll be getting a 2tb external to store my games. Thanks so much for the info!
This is not needed, see post #20, magog can do this by itself.

You need to:

1. Go to here and follow instructions to upload games list to magog.
2. Then go here and set these options:
- under filters select 'My Tags' -> 'is any of' -> 'owned' for the only row.
- make sure 'File Size' is ticked under Display just below (you can tick or untick as many other boxes as you want, just make sure that one is set).
3. Select "Search" and in the very end of the list you will see the TOTAL size of your library.

Credit: Adaliabooks, HunchBluntley,
And, most of all, mrkgnao. :)
Post edited December 14, 2016 by Lin545
Posted December 14, 2016
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Gylfe: Wow thanks a lot for the tutorial! But can this really be correct? 1101389 mb is what it said my total library is for around 628 games in the library.

edit - Well I guess that is around a bit over 1tb, I guess I could believe that. It looks like I'll be getting a 2tb external to store my games. Thanks so much for the info!
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Lin545: This is not needed, see post #20, magog can do this by itself.

You need to:

1. Go to here and follow instructions to upload games list to magog.
2. Then go here and set these options:
- under filters select 'My Tags' -> 'is any of' -> 'owned' for the only row.
- make sure 'File Size' is ticked under Display just below (you can tick or untick as many other boxes as you want, just make sure that one is set).
3. Select "Search" and in the very end of the list you will see the TOTAL size of your library.

Credit: Adaliabooks and HunchBluntley
And, most of all, mrkgnao. :)
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adaliabooks:
Since your post is marked as the solution, you may want to edit your post to remove mention of the script and point out where to find MaGog's total. It'll save future people a couple of unnecessary steps. : )
Post edited December 14, 2016 by HunchBluntley
Posted December 14, 2016
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Lin545: This is not needed, see post #20, magog can do this by itself.

You need to:

1. Go to here and follow instructions to upload games list to magog.
2. Then go here and set these options:
- under filters select 'My Tags' -> 'is any of' -> 'owned' for the only row.
- make sure 'File Size' is ticked under Display just below (you can tick or untick as many other boxes as you want, just make sure that one is set).
3. Select "Search" and in the very end of the list you will see the TOTAL size of your library.

Credit: Adaliabooks and HunchBluntley
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HunchBluntley: And, most of all, mrkgnao. :)
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adaliabooks:
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HunchBluntley: Since your post is marked as the solution, you may want to edit your post to remove mention of the script and point out where to find MaGog's total. It'll save future people a couple of unnecessary steps. : )
Yeah, good point. I'll edit it.
Posted December 14, 2016
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adaliabooks: Yeah, good point. I'll edit it.
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EDIT: Well, that didn't work. :P What I meant was:
[thumbs up]
Post edited December 14, 2016 by HunchBluntley
Posted December 14, 2016
Just keep in mind MaGog isn't perfect either. I get 44 results with the size "??? MB".
Posted December 14, 2016
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plagren: Just keep in mind MaGog isn't perfect either. I get 44 results with the size "??? MB".
You can switch to "JSON" export instead of HTML and then open webconsole and run Adaliabooks script for it to calculate the size from variables.
Posted December 14, 2016
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Lin545: You can switch to "JSON" export instead of HTML and then open webconsole and run Adaliabooks script for it to calculate the size from variables.
Nope, the file_size_mb values are all "0".
Post edited December 14, 2016 by plagren
Posted December 14, 2016
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Lin545: You can switch to "JSON" export instead of HTML and then open webconsole and run Adaliabooks script for it to calculate the size from variables.
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plagren: Nope, the file_size_mb values are all "0".
Which games?
I'm curious as presumably those values are taken from Gog, and I assumed all games listed their size...

As this seems to be a fairly desirable feature I'll look into a way of making it work properly (as in actually counting the size of the files in your library)
Posted December 14, 2016
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adaliabooks: ...
For a full list, do a search with a restrained scope for file sizes no more than 0, excluding DLCs and Upcoming games... or something like that.
Posted December 14, 2016
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adaliabooks: ...
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plagren: For a full list, do a search with a restrained scope for file sizes no more than 0, excluding DLCs and Upcoming games... or something like that.
Yeah, that works.
Just seems to be a random selection of games old and new that don't have their size on the page... I wonder why.
Posted December 15, 2016
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adaliabooks: Just seems to be a random selection of games old and new that don't have their size on the page... I wonder why.
It's probably an issue from GOG's side, I cannot find anything in common between the dowloadables of the games.

Just finished my assisted manual count... I'll need another external HDD :O
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