If you can use Python on the NAS, take a look at gogrepo.py, or at least the logging in part, which would allow you to use the download links from the account page directly.

Lol, come on, what absurd suggestion is this XD
What about the data, the warranty, and the necessary skills required to do that? :P

For data, it allows to use Btrfs and ZFS, but also Ext and Xfs. Its a very ripe distribution specifically for NAS, but also has full Debian functionality. You can run a webserver on your NAS if you wish.


The warranty, sorry which warranty?


Necessary skills. Unless its protected ARM, its a liveCD. Boot, wipe the data and install.

The command to wipe the entire partition is:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1M count=256

What wipes the first raw 256 MiB of yourdrive.

But..
- the data -> I meant the user files already stored on the NAS. I doubt he has\wants to buy another empty device to backup again all his data.
- warranty -> the NAS one. Formatting the device could probably void the warranty.
- skills -> normal users won't be able to do that easily.

I know this. I know these "normal" users. I know the "warranty" on the disposable box.
Either the "normal" users become "smarter" and understand what's really going on with their data and proactively secure all risks or their data silently dies. =) There are no excuses or exceptions from this one.

Most of the "NAS" boxes run proprietary gui on cut-down linux, without ability to upgrade, without access to guts, with minimal system tools. In that configuration, the backup on the CD is more secure... =)

Yep, I agree on all accounts phaolo. Reinstalling NAS' OS just to be able to download from GoG would be like shooting sparrows with a nuke and would surely create many more problems it would solve.

I installed Linux on a PC a couple of times (but don't have any such available here at the moment), but my NAS is a proprietary device with an Arm CPU and half a GB RAM without a CD or other bootable device, so I wouldn't know where to begin even if I wanted to.

Besides, this NAS is small, quiet, neat, rather fast (quite well optimized for its hardware) and does everything I need in its simple unpretentious way. Eats almost no electricity when it sleeps and its two swappable disks mirror each other, so even if it dies, the files would stay intact.

If I went to reinstall it to something "better", it would surely take days of fidgeting (maybe even weeks - just copying the disks to an external USB device would take two days or so - once I tried it) and I'd most likely end with a very un-optimized device, doing almost exactly but not quite the opposite of what I wanted in the first place.

Anyway, the original problem, namely how to download GoG files on a (factory-installed) NAS still remains. The pyLoad plugin seems promising if I can find someone to help me with it.

So if you guys don't mind, I'd like to leave this marked as not-yet-solved for a while.

Well, after well over 10 hours my copy of X3 is finally downloaded and if its reviews are correct it might be quite a few hundred hours of playtime before I'll try another download. Hope some solution about this problem might appear in the meantime.

So if anyone has any other ideas, I'd still very much appreciate hearing them.

Unscrew the box, connect hdd into your machine, download ARM image, install and enjoy.

You are missing bit flip detection, smart reporting, updates, unlocked functionality. I knew companies that relied on those small proprietary NAS boxes, until they suddenly die and they suddenly start searching for a solution that does what it should do - give confidence over stored data.

But your mileage may vary. Its your data.

Python's pretty easy, I would say it was the easiest language to learn of the few I know.

But I think you may have missed JMich's reply, which may be able to help you:

There is already a python script that downloads GoG games, so even if you could not run that you could possibly copy the logging in part as JMich suggested or speak to the creator who may be best placed to help you.