If you are like me and have bought lots and lots of Humble Bundles, you may have grown bored of downloading each game, e-book and soundtrack separately.
Fear no more, this script is for you. You can use it to grab your Humble Library and set up the downloads of everything you paid for in an orderly manner.
grab-hib.rb is the main program. It's a Ruby script that parses your
Humble Library (see below for further information) and produces a shell
script. This shell script is the one that does the actual downloading
and related tasks.
grab-hib.rb can download your Humble Library HTML file by itself, or
you can do the downloading and pass it to the command line. To let
grab-hib.rb do the downloading, you'll have to create a settings.yml
file with your username/email and password for login on Humble Bundle:
just copy settings.yml.sample to settings.yml and edit the two
fields.
For automatic download, usage is:
./grab-hib.rb -d whatever > doit
This will download all the required data about your Humble Library and
echo the instructions to download everything in an orderly directory
structures, instructions which are redirecting to the file doit in
this example. Running doit (e.g. with sh ./doit) will start the
actual downloads.
If automatic login fails, see below.
Data about your library is stored in a pair of files called
whatever.html (which can be used to re-extract the list of bundles
bought without contacting the Humble Bundle website again) and
whatever.json (which contains the actual list of products shipped with
the bundles). These files can be use to re-create the download script,
by issuing either:
./grab-hib.rb whatever.html > doit
which will attempt to re-download the list of products in each bundle you bought, or
./grab-hib.rb whatever.json > doit
which will just re-extract the data from the already downloaded list.
This approach can be used also if automatically login fails, by grabbing
the library file from the browser, saving it to disk and then passing it
as argument to grab-hib: point your browser to either
https://www.humblebundle.com/home/library or
https://www.humblebundle.com/api/v1/user/order
logging in if necessary, save the source of the page (e.g. to
manually.txt) and then process it as usual, e.g. by
./grab-hib.rb manually.txt > doit
In any of the mentioned cases, you still need to run doit as mentioned
in the previous paragraph will start the actual downloads
grab-hib.rb will set up the product downloads to rely on BitTorrent if
possible, using the scriptable command-line remote interface for
transmission. For products that do not have
a BitTorrent source, a standard download is issued, checking existing
downloads against their reported MD5.