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Posted May 08, 2011
I still can't get the new downloader to recognize "Add to Downloader" requests from My Account. And the old Adobe Air version is giving me "Invalid Password" errors.

Windows 7 x64 w/SP1
Firefox 4 (latest stable)
Posted May 08, 2011
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mrskippy: I'm having the same invalid zip file problem. Why fix something that wasn't really broken?
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Destro: This time the bug is on our side, the file was uploaded to the CDN but not propagated properly to all points of presence - we're very sorry for that. Please use the previous http://www.gog.com/download/GOGDownloader.0.9.0.1336.zip while we reupload the latest version.
Still invalid!!!
Posted May 09, 2011
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mrskippy: Still invalid!!!
There's a v1372 available via My Account (Add to downloader link), it should work fine for you :)

PS: In what browser did you try downloading that v1336 I've linked in my previous post? Was that IE8?
Posted May 09, 2011
Alright,

since I just (re)purchased three new games (can't stop the Arcanum, Fallout and Planescape love, I guess ^.^), I wanted to download them through the GOG downloader.

When I started it, to connect, I got a wrong password message. I am sure the password was correct, since I could use it to connect to this site.

So, I went to browse the forums, and found this thread. I downloaded GOG downloader's new version, proceed to connect and it worked this time.

Two questions please :

- why didn't GOG downloader auto-update itself, like it usually does (if I recall correctly) ?
- why are the downloads so sloooooooooow now ?

It makes me cringe to have to wait 30 minutes for a 1 GB download (Arcanum), expecting the Witcher 2 (which I have pre-ordered) to be much more consequential size.

So, GOG team, you have never let us down.

What gives on this new downloader ? Should I actually avoid it in the future, to use direct download from site ?
Post edited May 09, 2011 by nissa
Posted May 09, 2011
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nissa: It makes me cringe to have to wait 30 minutes for a 1 GB download
Heh. Thirty minutes for 1GB makes you cringe? You should see my connection speed.
Posted May 09, 2011
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nissa: - why didn't GOG downloader auto-update itself, like it usually does (if I recall correctly) ?
it will be added later on, with the next major version ready. Right now you can minimize it to tray and click "Check for update" manually.

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nissa: - why are the downloads so sloooooooooow now ? It makes me cringe to have to wait 30 minutes for a 1 GB download (Arcanum), expecting the Witcher 2 (which I have pre-ordered) to be much more consequential size.
well it shouldn't be like that, majority of users who tried the new downloader report a noticeable increase of speed... By default, the downloader should use 6 simultaneous threads to download every file (while web browsers use just 1) and you can edit this value via Options screen. Now, depending on your connection, this might be not enough or actually too much. In theory starting from 2 connections and above you should see some increase of download speed, however at some value this might start backifing due to the number of concurrent connections openned, so don't get tempted to set it to max if 6 is causing your download speed to decrease.
Posted May 09, 2011
I've placed the x.1372 executable on my desktop, and now when I click the "Add to downloader" link on the My Account page, a two-step page will appear. I click "Add to Downloader" again, and FireFox 4 will ask me to choose a program to open all future "gogdownloader" links with, and I selected the 1372 exe on the desktop. Now all links open properly in the downloader.
Posted May 09, 2011
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mrskippy: Still invalid!!!
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Destro: There's a v1372 available via My Account (Add to downloader link), it should work fine for you :)

PS: In what browser did you try downloading that v1336 I've linked in my previous post? Was that IE8?
IE8 .... worked fine in Firefox though.
Posted May 09, 2011
gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/gogdownloader/command '/path/to/gogdownloader "%s"'
gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/gogdownloader/enabled true
gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/gogdownloader/need-terminal false

start Firefox/Iceweasel and go to
edit -> preferences -> applications -> gogdownloader -> use other and select the bash script

gogdownloader:// urls should be working now
I still can't get it to work. One remark - it's needs_terminal, not need-terminal. Nonetheless, after all that I still can't see a gogdownloader entry in the Applications tab. I even rebooted with no effect. On the other hand, I have a picasa handler installed and both picasa and gogdownloader entries seems the same in gconf-editor. Picasa handler works, though.

What can I be doing wrong? :(

EDIT: oh, never mind, GOGDownloader crashes for me when trying to log in (I use wine 1.2.2) so even if I managed to set this up it wouldn't work anyway.

I guess I'll be downloading files via Firefox. A pity, the previous AIR-based downloader worked perfectly...
Post edited May 09, 2011 by mgol
Posted May 09, 2011
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mgol: I still can't get it to work. One remark - it's needs_terminal, not need-terminal.
Thanks, edited the post

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mgol: EDIT: oh, never mind, GOGDownloader crashes for me when trying to log in (I use wine 1.2.2) so even if I managed to set this up it wouldn't work anyway.

I guess I'll be downloading files via Firefox. A pity, the previous AIR-based downloader worked perfectly...
you could update to latest development version, assuming you're using Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine-1.3


if you don't need a GUI you can use this for downloading
sudo apt-get install build-essential libhtmlcxx-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
curl "https://pzt.me/aozf@raw" -o gogdownloader.cpp
g++ gogdownloader.cpp -Wall -lcurl -lhtmlcxx -o gogdownloader

usage/help: ./gogdownloader -h
Posted May 09, 2011
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Sude: usage/help: ./gogdownloader -h
How do I get urls? Do I have to look at the page source or is there any simpler way? Firefox doesn't show an address when moving a mouse over "add to queue" button...
Posted May 09, 2011
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Sude: usage/help: ./gogdownloader -h
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mgol: How do I get urls? Do I have to look at the page source or is there any simpler way? Firefox doesn't show an address when moving a mouse over "add to queue" button...
first create cookies.txt by logging in: ./gogdownloader -l
show urls: ./gogdownloader -s
download url: ./gogdownloader url
or batch download (this downloads everything): ./gogdownloader -b
you can use filtering with batch download (for example to download all game installers): ./gogdownloader -b -f /game/
Posted May 09, 2011
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Sude: first create cookies.txt by logging in: ./gogdownloader -l
show urls: ./gogdownloader -s
I get this (I moved gogdownloader to ~/bin and I have it in PATH):
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$ gogdownloader -s

Download file with
gogdownloader URL
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even though I logged in before...
Posted May 09, 2011
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mgol: I get this (I moved gogdownloader to ~/bin and I have it in PATH):
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$ gogdownloader -s

Download file with
gogdownloader URL
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even though I logged in before...
probably can't find the cookie file for some reason, try this
gogdownloader -c ~/cookies.txt -l
gogdownloader -c ~/cookies.txt -s
Posted May 09, 2011
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Sude: probably can't find the cookie file for some reason, try this
gogdownloader -c ~/cookies.txt -l
gogdownloader -c ~/cookies.txt -s
Still nothing. My e-mail address besides letters has a dot and a '+' sign - maybe it's causing problems? (if curl has problems with that, of course, email variable is a usual string, so it should work OK).

BTW, where did you get this code from?
Post edited May 09, 2011 by mgol
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