Support download and install games from the Humble Monthly Trove

[neuromancer]

https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly/trove

[tkashkin]

It should be possible if they have some API to access Trove. But probably they have no such API. In this case it probably can be implemented with HTML parsing.

Btw I can't try to implement it now as I don't have active Monthly subscription and this month's games don't look interesting enough to subscribe.

[neuromancer]

Yes, they don't have an API, but fortunately, there is an Python implementation that shows how to parse the HTML and extracts the links here.

[tkashkin]

Does Trove have any good games? How many of them are working on Linux? Is it even worth implementing?

[neuromancer]

I counted from my trove and half of the games have Linux support. Some others are Windows only, but they could work in Linux (e.g. Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™).

[tkashkin]

@neuromancer Test 9e3dc15.

[neuromancer]

It works as expected with the free games (my subscription is not active this month, thanks to a Paypal issue), but I will test with full set of games in the near future.
Great work! 🎉

[neuromancer]

Btw, after tomorrow, the free games are not going to be available for downloading, but we will have them already installed. Do you this change will be handled correctly?

[tkashkin]

I'm not sure, but we'll see.
I think nothing will break, as games and signed download urls are cached.

If signed urls will continue to work, you should be able to download games even after they will disappear from Trove. Links seem to have some TTL.
If urls will return any error (probably 403), you won't be able to download games, but error should be handled correctly.

[tkashkin]

They have redesigned Trove page. It seems now it's impossible to extract full game info and download links from this page, as game info is now shown in a popup created by js. js probably makes some ajax calls so it's possible that these calls may be captured. I'll take a look in a few days.