man LGOGDownloader (1): downloader for GOG.com games and other files

SYNOPSIS

lgogdownloader [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

An open-source GOG.com downloader for Linux users which uses the same API as the official GOGDownloader.

LGOGDownloader can download purchased games, query GOG.com to see if game files have changed, as well as downloading extras such as artwork and manuals. It is capable of downloading language-specific installers for games where they exist.

These games are currently offered only for the Microsoft Windows® and Apple OS X® operating systems. To play these games under GNU/Linux will require a compatibility layer such as Wine. Usage of such a program is outside the scope of this document.

LGOGDownloader 2.28 Options:

-h [ --help ]

Print help message

--version

Print version information

--login

--list

List games

--list-details

List games with detailed info

--download

Download

--repair

Repair downloaded files Use --repair --download to redownload files when filesizes don't match (possibly different version). Redownload will rename the old file (appends .old to filename)

--game arg

Set regular expression filter for download/list/repair (Perl syntax) Aliases: "all", "free" Alias "free" doesn't work with cached details

--create-xml [=arg(=automatic)]

Create GOG XML for file "automatic" to enable automatic XML creation

--update-check

Check for update notifications

--check-orphans arg

Check for orphaned files (files found on local filesystem that are not found on GOG servers). Sets regular expression filter (Perl syntax) for files to check. If no argument is given then the regex defaults to '.*\.(zip|exe|bin|dmg|old|deb|tar\.gz|p kg|sh)$'

--status

Show status of files

Output format:

statuscode gamename filename filesize filehash

Status codes:

OK - File is OK ND - File is not downloaded MD5 - MD5 mismatch, different version FS - File size mismatch, incomplete download

--save-config

Create config file with current settings

--reset-config

Reset config settings to default

--report [=arg(=lgogdownloader-report.log)]

Save report of downloaded/repaired files to specified file Default filename: lgogdownloader-report .log

--update-cache

Update game details cache

--no-platform-detection

Don't try to detect supported platforms from game shelf. Skips the initial fast platform detection and detects the supported platforms from game details which is slower but more accurate. Useful in case platform identifier is missing for some games in the game shelf. Using --platform with --list doesn't work with this option.

--download-file arg

Download files using fileid

Format:

"gamename/fileid" or: "gogdownloader://gamename/fileid"

Multiple files:

"gamename1/fileid1,gamename2/fileid2" or: "gogdownloader://gamename1/fileid1, gamename2/fileid2"

This option ignores all subdir options.

The files are downloaded to directory specified with --directory option.

-o [ --output-file ] arg

Set filename of file downloaded with --download-file.

--wishlist

Show wishlist

--login-api

--login-website

--directory arg (=.)

Set download directory

--limit-rate arg (=0)

Limit download rate to value in kB 0 = unlimited

--xml-directory arg

Set directory for GOG XML files

--chunk-size arg (=10)

Chunk size (in MB) when creating XML

--platform arg (=w+l)

Select which installers are downloaded Windows = w|win|windows|1 Mac = m|mac|osx|2 Linux = l|lin|linux|4 All = all|7

Set priority by separating values with

"," Combine values by separating with "+" Example: Linux if available otherwise Windows and Mac: l,w+m

--language arg (=en)

Set priority by separating values with

"," Combine values by separating with "+" Example: German if available otherwise English and French: de,en+fr

--no-remote-xml

Don't use remote XML for repair

--no-unicode

Don't use Unicode in the progress bar

--no-color

Don't use coloring in the progress bar

--no-duplicate-handling

Don't use duplicate handler for installers Duplicate installers from different languages are handled separately

--no-subdirectories

Don't create subdirectories for extras, patches and language packs

--verbose

Print lots of information

--insecure

Don't verify authenticity of SSL certificates

--timeout arg (=10)

Set timeout for connection Maximum time in seconds that connection phase is allowed to take

--retries arg (=3)

Set maximum number of retries on failed download

--wait arg (=0)

Time to wait between requests (milliseconds)

--cover-list arg (=https://sites.google.com/site/gogdownloader/covers.xml)

Set URL for cover list

--subdir-installers arg

Set subdirectory for extras Templates: - %platform% - %gamename% - %dlcname%

--subdir-extras arg (=extras)

Set subdirectory for extras Templates: - %platform% - %gamename% - %dlcname%

--subdir-patches arg (=patches)

Set subdirectory for patches Templates: - %platform% - %gamename% - %dlcname%

--subdir-language-packs arg (=languagepacks)

Set subdirectory for language packs Templates: - %platform% - %gamename% - %dlcname%

--subdir-dlc arg (=dlc/%dlcname%)

Set subdirectory for dlc Templates: - %platform% - %gamename% - %dlcname%

--subdir-game arg (=%gamename%)

Set subdirectory for game Templates: - %platform% - %gamename% - %dlcname%

--use-cache

Use game details cache

--cache-valid arg (=2880)

Set how long cached game details are valid (in minutes) Default: 2880 minutes (48 hours)

--save-serials

Save serial numbers when downloading

--ignore-dlc-count [=arg(=.*)]

Set regular expression filter for games to ignore DLC count information Ignoring DLC count information helps in situations where the account page doesn't provide accurate information about DLCs

--include arg (=all)

--exclude arg (=covers)

--automatic-xml-creation

Automatically create XML data after download has completed

--save-changelogs

Save changelogs when downloading

BLACKLIST

Allows user to specify individual files that should not be downloaded or mentioned as orphans.

Each line in the file specifies one blacklist expression, except for empty lines and lines starting with #. First few characters specify blacklist item type and flags. So far, only regular expression (perl variant) are supported, so each line must start with "Rp" characters. After a space comes the expression itself. Expressions are matched against file path relative to what was specified as --directory.

Example black list
# used to store manually downloaded mods/patches/maps/, don't mention it as orphans
Rp ^[^/]*/manual/.*
# included with every *divinity game, once is enough
Rp beyond_divinity/extras/bd_ladymageknight.zip
Rp divinity_2_developers_cut/extras/divinity_2_ladymageknight.zip

# extra 6GB is A LOT of space if you don't actually plan to mod your game
Rp the_witcher_2/extras/the_witcher_2_redkit.zip
Rp the_witcher_2/extras/extras_pack_3_hu_pl_ru_tr_zh_.zip
Rp the_witcher_2/extras/extras_pack_2_fr_it_jp_.zip

PRIORITIES

Separating values with "," when using language and platform switches enables a priority-based mode: only the first matching one will be downloaded.

For example, setting language to fr+en means both French and English will be downloaded (if available) for all games. Setting language to fr,en means that the French version (and only that one) will be downloaded if available, and if not, the English version will be downloaded.

You're allowed to "stack" codes in the priority string if needed. If you set language to es+fr,en it means it'll download both Spanish (es) and French (fr) versions if they are available, and the English (en) one only if none of French and Spanish are available.

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of this distribution is available from https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

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