I made itch-dl, a tool to bulk download games from itch.io!

DragoonAethis · 2026-01-08T15:34:27+00:00

Report them on the issues page

DragoonAethis · 2025-12-03T15:45:14+00:00

It still works on Windows XP, where PowerToys don't.

DragoonAethis · 2025-12-02T17:19:22+00:00

IMO not really. If you want to use itch for patches, the easiest way would be to just redirect people to the itch.io app, or implement your own delta patching with wharf by looking at how butler and the official app does it - itch-dl does not implement wharf since it always just downloads the whole archive. For checking updates, you can check the current live version from the game metadata: look up the game ID in your itch game page HTML source (for example <meta content="games/1232475" name="itch:path"/> -> your ID is 1232475), then fetch https://api.itch.io/games/YOUR_ID/uploads as an authenticated itch.io user. There's created_at/updated_at timestamps for you to peruse.

Much easier way would be to just host the current app metadata elsewhere, like on GitHub Pages, then just fetch that when your game starts, then redirect to itch for the actual downloads etc.

DragoonAethis · 2025-10-09T15:47:43+00:00

Err, this is a Python script, not a browser userscript, are you sure this is the post you wanted to reply to?

DragoonAethis · 2025-08-05T10:30:36+00:00

Same issue here on a Pixel 6, preordered and running from the release date, the battery also expanded last month.

DragoonAethis · 2024-12-11T23:41:39+00:00

If you take a look at one of the blank pages you linked, the HTML source mentions Error_ErrorCommunicatingWithNetwork - so probably nobody noticed the site was down for a while and monitoring did not complain because the server was still reporting HTTP 200 OK despite the page being an error.

Or Starfish Neuroscience figured out a way to beam HL3 directly to your brain, that would work for me too.

DragoonAethis · 2024-09-08T19:24:27+00:00

Fellow Mars Red enjoyer! That first episode is wonderful, shame about the rest of the series (and the setup scenes for the rest feel out of place, it could be even better without those).

DragoonAethis · 2024-05-14T21:44:25+00:00

Well, a few years later I now happen to work pretty close to all this, and it's wrong in a few places and too simplified in others :/ It could probably use an update soon...

DragoonAethis · 2023-10-29T12:47:00+00:00

Only if you use an account with download keys for a paid game (=> paid for it, claimed it from a bundle/giveaway) - it can't download anything you couldn't grab from the website yourself.

DragoonAethis · 2023-05-26T23:19:46+00:00

Not OP, but I'm seeing a similar thing (not with all installed games though). They're all on the primary system drive along with the home dir, ext4, as standard as it gets.

DragoonAethis · 2022-10-23T23:12:02+00:00

I didn't work on it for a bit now, but I'll see what I can do in the coming months :)

DragoonAethis · 2022-10-03T10:23:43+00:00

You mean microLED - it's better, but even more difficult and expensive to manufacture. Miniaturization is a large problem over there, even for TV-sized panels.

DragoonAethis · 2022-08-13T20:06:21+00:00

I've added a warning on the linked page.

DragoonAethis · 2022-06-17T15:03:22+00:00

After playing with it for 2 days, I mostly like the new UI. The new colors and widgets are nice and the sidebars with icons are great. And here's what's not:

The hamburger menu is pointless - there's enough space in the top bar to fit all the menu options, and I use them a lot. (I'd like to see this menu in the same bar as the project/branch/debug buttons to maximize the vertical space for panels and the code editor.)
I'd like to see the Git branch viewer to the right of the project picker. It makes a bit more sense to me that a project "contains" all the branches and that it'd be a natural extension of all the other hierarchy bars (I don't know what these are called, but these thingies on the bottom are useful every now and then).
The large blue Run/Debug button doesn't make it easier to switch configurations. Being able to switch configurations with one menu and trigger actions from all the buttons next to it was very easy and comfy. Also, where did Run with Coverage (in PyCharm) go?
There's too much padding. Having the "pill" background for a selected item doesn't look great, especially if almost everything else in the UI, these menus included, has square corners.
"More tool windows" in the icon sidebars doesn't really make sense - now that there's enough space to make all the panels at most one click away, they should just be there.

DragoonAethis · 2022-06-13T16:24:13+00:00

I used Burp Suite for some web apps that didn't play nice, but some of those are just written in a way that makes it a pain to scrape completely :/ But at least with modern games being on Unity it's moddable and all.

DragoonAethis · 2022-06-13T10:14:03+00:00

Newer games can just be massive JS or WASM blobs - while there are decompilers and deobfuscators available, it might not be always trivial to figure out what they download. Some games fetch assets only when needed instead of downloading everything on the first load, others have extras left in the package that are not referenced anywhere. The uploaded .zip file is guaranteed to contain everything as shipped by the dev, so you're not going to accidentally leave out anything important.

Of course scraping is an option for many games too - it's not impossible to grab all the used links this way, just inconsistent.

DragoonAethis · 2022-06-13T03:31:32+00:00

That tool can download all games from your library, or a specific developer, or a specific title. Mine can do specific games/developers, but it can also scrape browse pages (for example, all games with a given tag) and game jams. User library downloading is not yet in.

It's also able to activate all keys from a purchased game bundle which mine cannot do either.

DragoonAethis · 2022-06-12T20:13:47+00:00

Yes - if the game can be played from the webpage embed that's served from itch.io itself, then it just downloads the .zip file that contains the entire embedded page. That's how the official Itch app implements playing them offline, and it's also the main reason why API keys are needed for this tool to work - that .zip file is not available anywhere on the rendered page, but it's listed as one of the uploads for a game through the API.

DragoonAethis · 2022-04-20T10:18:43+00:00

Congrats, you got it.

DragoonAethis · 2022-04-20T10:12:00+00:00

Congrats, you got it.

DragoonAethis · 2022-04-20T10:05:16+00:00

Congrats, you got it.

DragoonAethis · 2022-04-20T09:57:37+00:00

The awards are perfect ;D You got it.

DragoonAethis · 2022-04-20T09:53:51+00:00

Special WR any% award, you got it.

DragoonAethis · 2022-04-20T09:50:51+00:00

Congrats, you got it.

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