Use existing data downloaded by lgogdownloader

[maluramichael]

Would it be possible to use/import an existing structure? My folders look like this.

/tank/games/gog/{NAME}/{PLATFORM}/{INSTALLER}.exe

[boggydigital]

I'm supportive and that doesn't sound too complex to add. Basically another download layout: https://github.com/arelate/vangogh/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#downloads-layouts. The code to support different layouts is already there, so I'd just need to add this specific layout.

One important consideration for you. vangogh requires additional metadata that it stores when fetching files - e.g. mapping from GOG ManualUrl to the actual filename: /game/en1installer1 -> game_setup.exe. That means two things in practice:

• Even with the files in the expected places vangogh needs to attempt to download from GOG to get/store that data. By default it won't redownload the file (if the expected name and size matches)
• Going forward this data needs to be updated. vangogh does that automatically, but there's no option to download by another downloader and ask vangogh to update just the data

Just sharing this in advance, in case you were planning to keep using lgogdownloader as a downloader and vangogh as a frontend - that won't work automatically and would need pretty involved maintenance.

[boggydigital]

Filed #153 to track