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Installing itch game with uri secret

See original GitHub issue

If you have access to a game with downloads and copy paste the full URI including the ?secret=..., the itch app gives you an error page.

The game in question has publicly announced the secret on Ludum Dare and should probably rather be published, but I figure it would still be very nice if you were sent a secret URI for an itch game to be able to install it via the app.

I don’t want to directly post the secret here, so I link to the Ludum-page where I found the game:

The Ludum Page that was/is secret-linking.

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments:7 (1 by maintainers)

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fasterthanlimecommented, May 30, 2019

Just to clarify: currently, both passwords (restricted games) and secrets (draft games) are unsupported in the itch app.

I’ve been thinking of ways to solve this server-side, though, the client-side fixes I had in mind are… not great.

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Noobidoocommented, Jun 2, 2021

@fasterthanlime Any progress on this?

My thought on how this could work: 1)The api should get the associated shared key sent to it and you can there decide if there is enough permission or not. 2) the game gets associated with the user when he adds it to his collection. Here you get problems with revoking keys to games, and need to explicitly remove the game from each collection. 3) When it comes to ‘download key’ allow several user to claim the same key and just track with user that has claimed it.

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