Posted April 11, 2017
This is wonderful, I have been manually keeping my offline collection up to date for years. I would love to throw this on a Linux server (or raspberry pi) as a cron job and never have to worry about manually updating again.
I few things spring to mind:
1. It would be highly desirable for me to be able to filter what content is downloaded. To save space, I tend to lean towards mp3 soundtracks over FLAC. I also choose not to download video bonus material such as developer diaries and such. And why bother downloading foreign manuals/bonus content if I'm only downloading english games already? Being able to pick and choose what type of bonus material I want would be preferable.
2. Being able to add certain titles to an ignore list would help as well. Why download Darksiders II when I already have DS2 Deathfinitive Edition stored locally? I can understand some people would want it all.. but my library in approaching 700 titles... my local backup folder is nearly 1TB and growing.
3. Currently, I download the game's box art and name it folder.jpg which makes browsing my backup folder almost like browsing my library shelf on the gog.com site. In addition to !info.txt and !serial.txt, would it be possible to scrape the box art as well? The only place I can still find the boxart for the titles is on the gog mixes creation page... Here's how my backup folders look with folder.jpg files... http://i.imgur.com/bdR1V7M.png
I understand some of this may not be possible due to lack of naming conventions of bonus material. Rather than tell it what I DO want.. perhaps the better approach would be to parse a file which includes terms I wish to filter out... [Fr],[Du],[Ru],[It],FLAC,video,videos,etc... .. any filenames that include these terms would be skipped.
I few things spring to mind:
1. It would be highly desirable for me to be able to filter what content is downloaded. To save space, I tend to lean towards mp3 soundtracks over FLAC. I also choose not to download video bonus material such as developer diaries and such. And why bother downloading foreign manuals/bonus content if I'm only downloading english games already? Being able to pick and choose what type of bonus material I want would be preferable.
2. Being able to add certain titles to an ignore list would help as well. Why download Darksiders II when I already have DS2 Deathfinitive Edition stored locally? I can understand some people would want it all.. but my library in approaching 700 titles... my local backup folder is nearly 1TB and growing.
3. Currently, I download the game's box art and name it folder.jpg which makes browsing my backup folder almost like browsing my library shelf on the gog.com site. In addition to !info.txt and !serial.txt, would it be possible to scrape the box art as well? The only place I can still find the boxart for the titles is on the gog mixes creation page... Here's how my backup folders look with folder.jpg files... http://i.imgur.com/bdR1V7M.png
I understand some of this may not be possible due to lack of naming conventions of bonus material. Rather than tell it what I DO want.. perhaps the better approach would be to parse a file which includes terms I wish to filter out... [Fr],[Du],[Ru],[It],FLAC,video,videos,etc... .. any filenames that include these terms would be skipped.