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BrandeX: I use Downthemall! Firefox plugin download manager program. I have not found Galaxy to be reliable at d/l'ing and installing either.
Thanks , at least when GOG will "drop" the client , i could use a download manager to get fhe files.

The downloader is still reliable , except for some bonus contents coming with some DLC, the problem they buried the links....
Solved? Not sure I agree that this is "solved".

I liked the way the downloader worked (downloading the files for the games with one click, the extras with a second click, and the ability to cue up those downloads for several games).

From what people are saying about GOG Galaxy, that's not currently possible (or, the files you get when you download with it are not the same, but rather larger or extra files). I like being able to have a local copy of my installation and extras files, rather than having to wait for hours for a download every time I have to re-install something (or install it on a different computer).

I do not want GOG Galaxy at the moment, but I can no longer find a link to download the GOG downloader.

I am rebuilding my gaming tower, and have had to wipe my hard drive, so now GOG downloader is not installed, nor does it seem to be available.

If GOG Galaxy is so "optional", then it ought to have all the functionality of the GOG Installer from the start (not need to be "fixed" to have that functionality). Another download manager does not know to check whether the files I have are the same or newer than the ones on GOG. No real solution for those of us who like the downloader.
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PKodon: I do not want GOG Galaxy at the moment, but I can no longer find a link to download the GOG downloader.
Or you could have just Googled it. =P Anyway, here you go.
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PKodon: Solved? Not sure I agree that this is "solved".

I liked the way the downloader worked (downloading the files for the games with one click, the extras with a second click, and the ability to cue up those downloads for several games).

From what people are saying about GOG Galaxy, that's not currently possible (or, the files you get when you download with it are not the same, but rather larger or extra files). I like being able to have a local copy of my installation and extras files, rather than having to wait for hours for a download every time I have to re-install something (or install it on a different computer).

I do not want GOG Galaxy at the moment, but I can no longer find a link to download the GOG downloader.

I am rebuilding my gaming tower, and have had to wipe my hard drive, so now GOG downloader is not installed, nor does it seem to be available.

If GOG Galaxy is so "optional", then it ought to have all the functionality of the GOG Installer from the start (not need to be "fixed" to have that functionality). Another download manager does not know to check whether the files I have are the same or newer than the ones on GOG. No real solution for those of us who like the downloader.
Check out Gogrepo http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gogrepopy_python_script_for_regularly_backing_up_your_purchased_gog_collection_for_full_offline_e , it pretty much does everything that the Downloader used to. The UI is less pretty though.
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PKodon: Solved? Not sure I agree that this is "solved".

I liked the way the downloader worked (downloading the files for the games with one click, the extras with a second click, and the ability to cue up those downloads for several games).

From what people are saying about GOG Galaxy, that's not currently possible (or, the files you get when you download with it are not the same, but rather larger or extra files). I like being able to have a local copy of my installation and extras files, rather than having to wait for hours for a download every time I have to re-install something (or install it on a different computer).

I do not want GOG Galaxy at the moment, but I can no longer find a link to download the GOG downloader.

I am rebuilding my gaming tower, and have had to wipe my hard drive, so now GOG downloader is not installed, nor does it seem to be available.

If GOG Galaxy is so "optional", then it ought to have all the functionality of the GOG Installer from the start (not need to be "fixed" to have that functionality). Another download manager does not know to check whether the files I have are the same or newer than the ones on GOG. No real solution for those of us who like the downloader.
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Kalanyr: Check out Gogrepo http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gogrepopy_python_script_for_regularly_backing_up_your_purchased_gog_collection_for_full_offline_e , it pretty much does everything that the Downloader used to. The UI is less pretty though.
Um, will it run automatically when you click a downloader link in the library? Isn't the file integrity check that used to be in the downloaded installer now in the downloader in the newer downloads?
nvm, a necrobomb...
Post edited May 06, 2016 by timppu
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PKodon: Um, will it run automatically when you click a downloader link in the library? Isn't the file integrity check that used to be in the downloaded installer now in the downloader in the newer downloads?
You don't need to click anything on the GOG web page. You run the script (with relevant options) and it downloads all your games and extras to your hard drive, neatly in subfolders. Much much MUUUUUUUUUUCH easier that with GOG Downloader, GOG Galaxy or a web browser.

I've downloaded well over 1200 GOG games with it (including all the extras), try that with your GOG Downloader! :) Even better, try to keep your local collection up to date after GOG updates some of the games, sometimes not notifying you with the update flag... Very easy and straightforward with gogrepo.py, quite burdensome in any other way.

gogrepo does have its own integrity check too. When you give it the "verify" option, it will check your whole GOG installer/extras library and report any missing files or which fail an integrity check (checked either against md5 checksum, or zip file integrity, or merely the file size, depending what is possible with said file which is being inspected).

It also has a "clean" option which will move away any obsole files it doesn't recognize (it doesn't delete them but moves them to another directory so you can check them for yourself it there is anything you want to keep from the old files). This is actually a great way to detect if GOG has (accidentally or intentionally) removed a game from your library, e.g. back when the Fallout game kept disappearing from people's accounts.

gogrepo.py works on pretty much any device which can run python scripts, meaning that you can use it both in Windows and Linux. The biggest obstacle to using it is that at least in Windows you need to set it up (download and install python to your Windows, and also some other dependencies that the script needs), but after that first hurdle it is quite easy-peasy. In Linux setting up is easier because e.g. python is usually pre-installed on Linux distributions.

There are a couple other similar "mass downloader" tools for GOG, e.g. lgogdownloader and some third tool whose name escapes me. I haven't tried them, and my understanding is that lgogdownloader is mainly targeted for Linux users (you can try to compile it for Windows yourself, I guess).
Post edited May 06, 2016 by timppu
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PKodon: Um, will it run automatically when you click a downloader link in the library? Isn't the file integrity check that used to be in the downloaded installer now in the downloader in the newer downloads?
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timppu: You don't need to click anything on the GOG web page. You run the script (with relevant options) and it downloads all your games and extras to your hard drive, neatly in subfolders. Much much MUUUUUUUUUUCH easier that with GOG Downloader, GOG Galaxy or a web browser.

I've downloaded well over 1200 GOG games with it (including all the extras), try that with your GOG Downloader! :) Even better, try to keep your local collection up to date after GOG updates some of the games, sometimes not notifying you with the update flag... Very easy and straightforward with gogrepo.py, quite burdensome in any other way.

gogrepo does have its own integrity check too. When you give it the "verify" option, it will check your whole GOG installer/extras library and report any missing files or which fail an integrity check (checked either against md5 checksum, or zip file integrity, or merely the file size, depending what is possible with said file which is being inspected).

It also has a "clean" option which will move away any obsole files it doesn't recognize (it doesn't delete them but moves them to another directory so you can check them for yourself it there is anything you want to keep from the old files). This is actually a great way to detect if GOG has (accidentally or intentionally) removed a game from your library, e.g. back when the Fallout game kept disappearing from people's accounts.

gogrepo.py works on pretty much any device which can run python scripts, meaning that you can use it both in Windows and Linux. The biggest obstacle to using it is that at least in Windows you need to set it up (download and install python to your Windows, and also some other dependencies that the script needs), but after that first hurdle it is quite easy-peasy. In Linux setting up is easier because e.g. python is usually pre-installed on Linux distributions.

There are a couple other similar "mass downloader" tools for GOG, e.g. lgogdownloader and some third tool whose name escapes me. I haven't tried them, and my understanding is that lgogdownloader is mainly targeted for Linux users (you can try to compile it for Windows yourself, I guess).
How do i install it?
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klappis: How do i install it?
gogrepo? This is how I did it yesterday on Windows 7/64bit, instructions partly from Brouer:

1. Install Python 3.x.x from https://www.python.org/downloads/

- When you install it, make sure to tick the box for letting Python to be added to the PATH.

2. Get gogrepo from https://github.com/eddie3/gogrepo

- You can click on the green "Clone or download" button and select "Download ZIP", and then uncompress the zip file to a suitable place in your computer, e.g. C:\gogrepo\. There should be a subfolder "gogrepo-master" where you have the gogrepo.py script.

- For simplicity's sake, put gogrepo to the drive where you think you have enough room for your GOG game installers you are going to download. However, there are also options to download your installers to any other drives or paths.

3. Optional: edit the gogrepo.py.

- This is not necessarily needed, but I'd edit gogrepo.py (with e.g. IDLE editor, that Python has installed on your PC) by changing the following value to 2:

HTTP_FETCH_DELAY = 2

It is 1 by default, but this is just to make even more certain that GOG will not temporarily block you because you are hammering their server with requests all the time. However, changing this to 2 makes the script slower when getting file details for the manifest file. It doesn't slow down actual downloads though.

4. Run preliminary things for gogrepo

- Open the command prompt (press the Windows key + R and type cmd) and give these commands:

- pip install html2text

- pip install html5lib

- cd \gogrepo\gogrepo-master (or in whichever folder you uncompressed the gogrepo.py script)

- python gogrepo.py login (follow the instructions, if you have two-step login enabled, you have to get the verification code from your email and enter it here. This login needs to be done only once, in order to get valid login cookies for gogrepo.)

5. Run gogrepo.

In the command prompt, in the directory where the gogrepo.py is (e.g. c:\gogrepo\gogrepo-master\), you can run e.g. these commands:

- python gogrepo.py update -os windows -lang en to get file details of English Windows versions of games into the manifest file. If you want file details also for linux and mac and other languages, you can add them too. GOG apparently knows these language codes: en cz da de es fr it hu nl no pl pt br ro fi sv tr ru ko cn jp. Note that this update step can take quite a long time so be patient, for me it takes something like 8-9 hours I think to get file details for all my over 1300 GOG games.

- python gogrepo.py download This will download all the games and extras found in the manifest file to your current directory. Each game will be neatly in its own subdirectory, like age_of_wonders\ etc. You can also tell this command to download the games to some other drive/path, if your current drive doesn't have enough space for your GOG installers.

Check also other commands from the gogrepo page or readme file, especially "verify" and "clean". Also if you don't want to redownload the whole manifest file with the update command each and every time, check the -updateonly and -skipknown options. I personally choose to get the whole manifest file every time when I run gogrepo, just to make sure I get all changes that my GOG installers may have received, even silently without update notifications from GOG.

If you have to stop downloading for any reason (wanting to watch some Netflix movie, or your monthly data transfer quota is reached, or whatever), you can abort the script with Ctrl-C. When you are ready to continue, just run "python gogrepo.py download" again, it will skip all the files which were already fully downloaded, and redownload only those files which were not yet downloaded, or were downloaded only partially. It doesn't resume partially downloaded files, but downloads them all over again.
Post edited June 05, 2017 by timppu
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klappis: How do i install it?
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timppu: gogrepo? This is how I did it yesterday on Windows 7/64bit, instructions partly from Brouer:

1. Install Python 3.5.x (or 2.7.x, gogrepo apparently supports both Python branches) from https://www.python.org/downloads/

- When you install it, make sure to tick the box for letting Python to be added to the PATH.

2. Get gogrepo from https://github.com/eddie3/gogrepo

- You can click on the green "Clone or download" button and select "Download ZIP", and the uncompress the zip file to a suitable place in your computer, e.g. C:\gogrepo\. There should be a subfolder "gogrepo-master" where you have the gogrepo.py script.

- For simplicity's sake, put gogrepo to the drive where you think you have enough room for your GOG game installers you are going to download. However, there are also options to download your installers to any other drives or paths.

3. Optional: edit the gogrepo.py.

- This is not necessarily needed, but I'd edit gogrepo.py (with e.g. IDLE editor, that Python has installed on your PC) by changing the following value to 2:

HTTP_FETCH_DELAY = 2

It is 1 by default, but this is just to make even more certain that GOG will not temporarily block you because you are hammering their server with requests all the time. However, changing this to 2 makes the script slower when getting file details for the manifest file. It doesn't slow down actual downloads though.

4. Run preliminary things for gogrepo

- Open command prompt (press Windows key + R and type cmd

- Run pip install html2text

- Run pip install html5lib

- cd \gogrepo\gogrepo-master (or in whichever folder you uncompressed the gogrepo.py script)

- python gogrepo.py login (follow the instructions, if you have two-step login enabled, you have to get the verification code from your email and enter it here. This login needs to be done only once, in order to get valid login cookies for gogrepo.)

5. Run gogrepo.

In the command prompt, in the directory where the gogrepo.py is (e.g. c:\gogrepo\gogrepo-master\), you can run e.g. these commands:

- python gogrepo.py update -os windows -lang en to get file details of English Windows versions of games into the manifest file. If you want file details also for linux and mac and other languages, you can add them too. GOG apparently knows these language codes: en cz da de es fr it hu nl no pl pt br ro fi sv tr ru ko cn jp. Note that this update step can take quite a long time so be patient, for me it takes something like 8-9 hours I think to get file details for all my over 1300 GOG games.

- python gogrepo.py download This will download all the games and extras found in the manifest file to your current directory. Each game will be neatly in its own subdirectory, like age_of_wonders\ etc. You can also tell this command to download the games to some other drive/path, if your current drive doesn't have enough space for your GOG installers.

Check also other commands from the gogrepo page or readme file, especially "verify" and "clean". Also if you don't want to redownload the whole manifest file with the update command each and every time, check the -updateonly and -skipknown options. I personally choose to get the whole manifest file every time when I run gogrepo, just to make sure I get all changes that my GOG installers may have received, even silently without update notifications from GOG.

If you have to stop downloading for any reason (wanting to watch some Netflix movie, or your montly data transfer quota is reached, or whatever), you can abort the script with Ctrl-C. When you are ready to continue, just run "python gogrepo.py download" again, it will skip all the files which were already fully downloaded, and redownload only those files which were not yet downloaded, or were downloaded only partially. It doesn't resume partially downloaded files, but downloads them all over again.
Very grateful for the detailed post! You're awesome!
Where exactly is GOG Downloader now? I can't find any links on the site.
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ComodoHacker: Where exactly is GOG Downloader now? I can't find any links on the site.
Here it is:
https://www.gog.com/downloader

There's not direct link from the site anymore, you just have to Google it.
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SpringPower: I do not plan to use Galaxy now or in the future, and am wondering if GOG downloader can still be used to download games now and in the future. In other words, has GOG had an official statement?
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JudasIscariot: From our Galaxy page:

8. Will you still support GOG downloader? Will you develop it further?

We won't disable the GOG downloader on launch day, but we will no longer actively support it. The downloader may be affected as we continue updating our infrastructure, but we don't plan to disable it intentionally.
One thing I've noticed recently: the Two-Step security thingy breaks the login on the GOG Downloader. You have to disable the Two-Step security thingy in order to be able to log into the Downloader, which means that, when GOG finally makes the Two-Step system mandatory, it will be the death of the Downloader for anyone not already logged in.
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samuraigaiden: One thing I've noticed recently: the Two-Step security thingy breaks the login on the GOG Downloader. You have to disable the Two-Step security thingy in order to be able to log into the Downloader, which means that, when GOG finally makes the Two-Step system mandatory, it will be the death of the Downloader for anyone not already logged in.
Still fine for me. And I have the two step thing since it was introduced, installed the downloader from scratch in different OSs installs and never had it break the log in.
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samuraigaiden: One thing I've noticed recently: the Two-Step security thingy breaks the login on the GOG Downloader. You have to disable the Two-Step security thingy in order to be able to log into the Downloader, which means that, when GOG finally makes the Two-Step system mandatory, it will be the death of the Downloader for anyone not already logged in.
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neurasthenya: Still fine for me. And I have the two step thing since it was introduced, installed the downloader from scratch in different OSs installs and never had it break the log in.
Weird. Maybe I'm wrong about my assumption. I was not able to log in with the Two Step active, but was able after deactivating it.