I just have bought a bundle of several dozen games and I can’t use GOG Galaxy so I’m stuck with downloading them with the GOG downloader.

Is there a way to tell the downloader to download the whole bundle?

Because the only way I currently see is to go to my shelf page, click every single game, click to show downloader links and click to add that file to the downloader, click the browsers back button which brings always up the FIRST page of my game shelf even when I was on another page, click for the next page, click the next single game....

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gogrepopy_python_script_for_regularly_backing_up_your_purchased_gog_collection_for_full_offline_e

Haven't tried it myself yet, but I hear good things.

Edit: The only way to do that with the GOG Downloader would be to click on every link of the games you want to download manually one by one. Then you will have a queue of all your games in the downloader. I know, it sucks. But at least with the downloader there is 1 link for all the goodies.

Was that the Python downloader tool?

edit: Looks like it.

Yes.

Use gogrepy as suggested. It is a bit of work and learning to set it up (install python and other dependencies that the tool needs in order to work), but after you have it set up, it is a great way to both download all your GOG games/extras, and also keep them up to date.

In my experience it is easier to set up in Linux than in Windows because Linux distros usually already have some of the dependencies installed by default (like python itself), and the rest can be easily installed from Linux repositories. In Windows you have to hunt down a bit to find and install all the needed pieces, IIRC.

It is a third-party tool made by a GOG user. I don't really see GOG (nor other services) making such tools or functionality themselves as it is probably not in their best interests to promote people downloading all their games in masses. They probably prefer people download games only when they intend to play them. You don't see such mass-download functionality in other services either, like Steam, Origin, Humble Store, GamersGate, DotEmu etc., they always expect you to download games one by one.

Maybe if GOG made a similar tool using p2p technology so that the bandwidth would come also from other GOG users? I'd like that actually. Humble Store already supports the use of torrent p2p clients, but still you have to click on each game individually in order to add them to the download queue in your torrent client.

STRG-CLICK.

You can also use a download manager like DownThemAll in Firefox. That's what I'm doing more and more. It can make your browsing slow, though.

I second gogrepo. I got it working, then set up .bat files with the commands for all the functions, so it's as simple as double clicking links in my folder.

This drives me fucking bonkers. I wish GOG would address it. And they could also have a link at the top of the fucking page so you could go to page two or three or higher of your library instead of having to scroll all the way to the bottom. But that would, of course, mean an improvement to the functionality of the website, and GOG seems vehemently opposed to that.

I presume you can't tell it to download all your games, but you actually have to go click on each game/extra to get it downloaded. So it isn't really what I think the OP was requesting for, downloading all your games in one swoop. Two things:

1. You can go to certain page on your library, by typing the page number into that page box. You don't have to click on the > button several times in order to get to that page.

2. This "back button problem" seems to be relevant only for the legacy Downloader client links, which is already unsupported. If you use the normal web (http) download links instead, then you don't have this problem as you can simply close the download page by clicking the X on the top-right corner.

So it sounds probable GOG will not "fix" this, as it affects only an unsupported functionality.

I don’t necessarily want to download all the games at once. Just add all the new bought ones to the list to be downloaded with less clicks than clicking several times for every single of a bundle containing several dozens. If those are then downloaded one after the other and only when downloader is running (I don’t start downloader with Windows) that would be fine too.

That is not the case for me. The URL of my library/game shelf/collection is
https://www.gog.com/account
and it’s that regardless if I’m on page 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the library. So every time I hit the browsers back button I find myself at the first page of my library.
Not only that - when I have scrolled down to say the middle of page 1 and only take another progame to the front (e.g. checking how far downloader has got downloading) and then take the browser window back into the focus it went back to the top of the page. Not supporting an easy to use alternative when GOG Galaxy works fine only on Windows 7+ and soon probably only on 64bit versions of windows, while selling good old games is a bit of a contradiction. Sure but then there are other nuisances as e.g. having to manually create a folder for each download to place in which downloader does automatically. GOG would not have to fix the GOG downloader at all, if the page with the links for the downloader would be set up simply just like those with the links for Galaxy or browser download (= being able to open and close the page with the links for a game without changing the page of games you were browsing)

I think you might have misunderstood timmpu's suggestion perhaps. What he's referring to is at the bottom of the web page just under your library, the pagination controls are there, and on the left is a box with a number in it. You can highlight the number with your mouse and type in another number to jump to any page in your library.

These pagination controls are non-standard and confusing to some, and aggravating to others. Personally I find pagination itself aggravating, but I don't like the pagination controls they have right now at all either. I'd much rather have one page that shows all 507 of my games, or if I own 3445 games in N years, I want all 3445 of them on one page. Call me crazy, but that's me. :)

Sadly, we do not have that option at the moment however I've heard some rumours that there might be other options in the future but nothing officially confirmed in writing or anything. :)

I too find it kind of annoying when going forward a page and back that it goes to the top of the page when hitting back as Galaxy is ultimately a web browser and none of the major browsers behave like that so it is unusual to get used to.

GOG has not been an acronym for "good old games" for years now officially, they lopped that acronym off about 4 or 5 years ago and it just means "GOG" now. Some people still think of it as "good old games" but they officially do not recognize that name any more except as a part of their history - so there is no contradiction. :)

I agree that there are many improvements that could be made over the existing situation though both in Galaxy, and on the website with direct download links or GOG downloader links, and hopefully a complete revamp of the library view turning it into multiple user selectable and highly customizeable views instead of one-size-fits all.

Time will tell... :)

I believe you misunderstand my complaint: go to your library. You're at the top of the page of your list of games. Let's say you have 4 pages of games and you want to check on a game on any page other than the first. You have to scroll down to the bottom of page one in order to get to the page box. Why there's no page box link at the top of the page as well, like there would be on pretty much every other website, remains unexplained.

The DLer client is unsupported, yes. The website isn't unsupported (or so we're led to believe, at any rate). This is pretty basic website functionality and nothing to do with supporting the DLer. It's supporting the functionality of the website.

1. You can manually change the x at the "< x of y >", though I agree it could be a lot more clear (I assume they figure it to be an "advanced" function that most users wouldn't use, and hides it so even fewer are aware it exists, thus making even fewer people use it).

2. GOG's business was never to sell games for old systems, but they started with the idea to sell old games for modern systems. Not much of a contradiction at all, XP and Vista are legacy at this point, so GOG dropped official support for them.