drpg 2025.7.8

Download and keep up to date your purchases from DriveThruRPG

dRPG downloads and keeps your purchases from DriveThruRPG up to date

Installation

This script runs with Python 3.9 and newer.

You can install dRPG from PyPI:

pip install --user drpg
drpg --help  # or python -m drpg --help

Usage

1. Go to your account settings and generate a new application key in the "Library App Keys" section.
2. Copy the key and run the script: drpg --token <YOUR_DRPG_TOKEN> - or set DRPG_TOKEN env variable and run drpg.
3. Now just sit, relax and wait. Initial synchronization may take a while so why don't you grab a cup of tea or whatever your favourite beverage is. On consecutive runs the script will download only new and changed files which will be a way faster.

Compatibility

Because of the nature of using an undocumented API, this software may break without a notice. Version number indicates a year and a month when the software was proved to be working with a real DriveThruRPG account.

File name compatibility

The DriveThruRPG client does some interesting things with the names of directories. For example, if you buy a product from publisher "Game Designers' Workshop (GDW)" the DriveThruRPG client app will download it to a directory with the unwieldy name "Game Designers__039_ Workshop GDW".

By default, drpg gives directories more user friendly name. In the example above, the directory would be "Game Designers' Workshop (GDW)". However, this causes a problem if you intend to try to manage the same e-book library using both drpg and the DriveThruRPG client app. When you run the former, you'll get a friendly name, then when you run the latter it will download all the same files again and put them in a directory with the unfriendly name.

You can use the command line option --compatibility-mode to make drpg use the same naming scheme for files and directories as the DriveThruRPG client. We have also done our best to imitate DriveThruRPG's bugs while in --compatibility-mode but I'm sure there are some we missed.

Advanced options

You can change where your files will be downloaded by using --library-path path/to/your/directory.

By default the script does not compare files by md5 checksum to save time. You can turn it on by using --use-checksums.

You can change a log level by using --log-level=<YOUR_LOG_LEVEL>. Choices are DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL.

You can do a "dry run" of the app by specifying --dry-run. This will determine all the digital content you have purchased, but instead of downloading each file it will print one line of information to show what file would have been downloaded if the --dry-run flag wasn't on. Use this if you want to test out the app without taking the time to download anything.

For more information, run the script with --help.

Found a bug?

Pull requests and bug reports are welcomed! See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.