I decided to see if I could download all of my Humble Bundle content to a local NAS. I’ve mentioned the humble-cli tool as working really well for interacting with Humble Bundle purchases.
A recent version of humble-cli has a bulk-download subcommand, which isn’t
very well documented. It takes a CSV file with columns labeled key and name.
It’s easy to generate with the humble-cli itself. Assuming you’ve already
authed, here’s what the steps look like:
$ humble-cli list --field key --field name > bundles.csv
...
$ humble-cli bulk-download bundles.csv
...
That’s it and off go your humble downloads.
In the current directory, this will iterate over each bundle in the csv file. For each bundle, it’ll create a folder named after each item in the bundle. Then it’ll download the corresponding media into that folder. This results in a nice, two-level archive of all the bundles in the csv.
Bonus: the download process attempts to be idempotent. If you run a
bulk-download again and the media files are already present, it won’t
re-download them.
I haven’t seen this anywhere on the web, so maybe it’ll get indexed and help someone out in the future.
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