Lutris Cover Art Downloader

This is an EXTREMELY DIRTY script to download cover art for Lutris games. It first started as a personal project, but I'm putting it here in case anyone else wants to use it.

It comes from a long time bug in Lutris. The source used to get cover arts is... unreliable. It's not a big deal, but it's annoying. So I wrote this script to download the cover arts from SteamGridDB.

Usage

1. Clone the repository

2. Install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the script

python3 main.py

You need a SteamGridDB API key. You can get one here.

Screenshots

Your library will go from this:

To this:

In a matter of seconds.

How it works and warnings

When I said the script dirty, it IS dirty. Obvisouly this won't get you any malware, but since I'm not that much into Python, I did what I could. What the script does is that it fetches the list of games from Lutris at /home/$USER/.cache/lutris, then it fetches the first cover art from SteamGridDB. It then saves the cover art in the Lutris cache folder.

Planned features

• ❕ Argument support (--banner, --cover, --help)
• ❕ Add a simple GUI with console output
• ❕ Add a way to select the cover art you want via the GUI
• Split in multiple files
• Better code
• Encode API Key in file
• A better README?

Credits

• Big thanks to the Lutris team!
• Big thanks to SteamGridDB for their API and their resources!
• Obvious thanks to StackOverflow!