This simple script downloads GoldSrc maps specified in a text file from a FastDL server you specify.
FastDL servers are used in-game to download maps and other resources faster.
The script is resources aware and if a .res file exists for the map on the FastDL server,
the .res file and all resources in it, get downloaded as well, while keeping the correct directory structure.
You can get a FastDL server's URL simply from the console after connecting to a server with FastDL, the in-game console will print:
Using http://127.0.0.1/ as primary download location
or
Saved http://127.0.0.1/maps/map_name.bsp to disk
where "http://hostname/" is the URL.
An example map list with the correct format (one map per line) is available in the saved-maps.txt file.
usage: download_maps.py [-h] [--fastdl-url FASTDL_URL] [--map-list MAP_LIST]
[--output-dir OUTPUT_DIR]
Download .bsp files with all the resources (based on .res files) from a FastDL
server based on a text file list
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--fastdl-url FASTDL_URL
Specify a base FastDL url (WITH gamemode folder name!)
for downloading
--map-list MAP_LIST Specify a filename of a newlined list of maps (and
their resources) you wish to download (1 map per line)
(default: saved-maps.txt)
--output-dir OUTPUT_DIR
Specify a base directory in which the downloaded
directory structure will be saved to (default:
downloaded_maps/)
- The script doesn't check if the file was actually downloaded in its entirety (it only checks if the file exists), because I'm lazy
- Script is non-portable (path splits are basically hardcoded), working on Linux/Unix only.
- and a lot more, probably, that I already forgot.
- Python 3.6+ (3.5 if you remove F-strings)
- urllib3, argparse