Thanks so much for the info. I use FireFox and WinXP, but could not get GOGdownloader to find the file to download. After reading your post, I went into Applications in FF Options and changed the GOG downloads to find the new GOG downloader application and it works fine now. It was apparently looking for a previous install of the downloader.

Yet another unofficial GOG downloader to add to the list:

gog-backup (Python, Multiplatform, CLI)
- Batch download of both games & extras
- Multithreaded downloading
- Resume support
- Verifies games using XML metadata
- Verifies extras using .ZIP checksums
- Can download cover art
- Has documentation
- Requires only Python >= 2.6 and html5lib dropped in the same directory as the script.

This is a backup tool--you can't tell it what to download, it always downloads everything you don't yet have. Which isn't much of a limitation, really. It works for me on Linux, although it should work unmodified on any O/S with a Python interpreter.

For completeness, here're the competing unofficial downloaders:

JGOGDownloader (Java, Multiplatform, GUI)
- Uses wget for downloading
- Resume support
- Downloads cover art
- Queue (batch download) support

XGOG Downloader (Perl, Multiplatform, CLI)
- Uses Perl/LWP for downloading
- Resume support
- Queue (batch download) support

gogdl (Lua, Linux, CLI)
- Uses wget for downloading
- Resume support
- Queue (batch download) support
- XML data support
-- verifies downloaded files against md5 sum from GOG XML
- Should be possible to run on Windows with some code changes

gogdownloader (C++, Linux, CLI)
- Uses libcurl for downloading
- Resume support
- Queue (batch download) support
- XML data support
-- verifies downloaded files against md5 sum from GOG XML
-- repairs corrupted files by downloading corrupted chunks again
-- can create GOG XML files with custom chunk size for downloaded files
- Should be possible to compile on Windows using Cygwin with some code changes

Linux downloader (Bash, Linux, CLI)
- Uses wget or aria2 for downloading
- Resume support
- Downloads cover art
- Multithreaded downloading when using aria2
- Modified script can be run on Windows with MinGW/MSYS

This works for me when ddownloading the setup files, but anytime it attempts to dl the extras the thread involved spits out this error message and dies: I'm using Python 2.7 due to another program I use requiring it. Any ideas whats up? I would dearly love to get a downloader working that takes care of backing up the extras, and the other 'windows native' one - JGoGDownloader apparently can't handle my email address and never gets past the logging in section.

I get the error message "you have no access to this product" when I try to download The Witcher. The GOG support team has not gotten back to me. Has anybody else had this problem?

I'm getting the same problem, would be nice if someone could find a solution to this issue.

I'm having a terrible time with this. I'm a new customer, signed up tonight so I could buy Giants, an old favorite. I have a pretty slow internet but my browser download has failed twice, wasting about four hours of time. Both times because of sudden "maintenance" at GOG. This is a pretty miserable first experience I must say. Solution would of course be to use the downloader, but the downloader is completely useless because it refuses to let me log in. I enter the name and password and the login window fades away, then comes right back a second later. Since I can't use the downloader I can't resume and since the GOG site can't seem to stay up for two consecutive hours without going down for some reason downloading through the web doesn't work either. I thought I would get to spend the evening playing the game I purchased but instead just problems.

I am sorry to hear that. I had a lot of problems with the original downloader as well, this is why I do only use the jGOGDownloader.

There are already a couple of third party downloaders, that are working really great (also downloading the Extras and DVD Covers).

You can find a list of the downloaders available here:
http://www.gogwiki.com/index.php?title=Download_Clients

Thanks Ubivis, I will take a look.

I wasn't doing well with those other clients but after about 50 tries the official downloader just finally let me in. So here I go for the fourth time to try to download. Each time before it would get about two hours in then fail. Crossing my fingers on this one.

This is a substantial improvement over the Adobe AIR downloader. The use of the close button to minimize to tray is somewhat confusing, though.

Could you give any more details?

1) Official GOG downloader or 3rrd party?
2) List of actions you take and results in it working/not-working

We'd love to help, but you haven't given us a lot to go on.

EDIT: One thing that I just noticed - it sounds like you are starting the downloader and expecting it download things automatically. With the official GOG downloader, you need to add games to it from your Accounts page. To download a game, go to your Accounts page, click on the game and choose to download it with the GOG downloader. Firing up the Downloader doesn't mean it will download games.

Oops. I've fixed the problem in the latest version on GitHub, along with a few other issues.

Please let me know how things go with that problem fixed!

when i open this screen, there is no entry for the protocol listed at all, so i cant simply edit the entry. could someone tell me what the protocol is so i can get it to work with opera?

Hi,

I've got a problem using the Downloader. He won't start any downloads anymore. I wanted to download The Witcher 2 but it won't start, added Baldurs Gate, same problem. I don#t know what to do, I added it to my Firewall list, even deleted it and redownloaded it. Perhaps someone can help me.