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Itch.io's butler - easy and short tutorial

A topic by Mibli created Nov 14, 2019 Views: 3,123 Replies: 12
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If you want to update only your game´s new content, this is what you will need to do.

Download the butler here https://itch.io/docs/butler/installing.html and put it in your games directory. Extract it.

Now we need to make a path for the butler in windows so that we can call it easily from the run cmd window.

Go to your windows settings (control panel). Search for "advanced" and you'll see that there is something called "advanced system settings". Click it and then go to "environment variables"

In your "system variables" add a new path. This path should be the path to your game folder with the butler in it. Don't write butler.exe, just write the path to the folder.

The final step is to go into run cmd. Write "butler login" and it'll answer that you need to link the butler to your itch.io´s account. Link it.

Then you can just login writing "butler login" whenever from the cmd, you don't even need to write your user and pass.

To upload your build´s patch, just write butler push directory user/game:channel.

As example "butler push c:\thebestgame\tbg.zip gms2programmer1337/tbg:windows

And now you're done!

okay so I tried this and it's not working, it's still saying Butler is not recognized as an internal or external command

This means there was a mistake somewhere in updating the system environment variables. I’d double check you added the correct directory.

i double checked, and its correct.

it did not work.

Hi. Did you write "butler push" before writing the location? If you did, did you login with butler login?

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I do not know how to do both, please provide more information on how to do so.


Edit: I realised that butler push is a command within the FNF build, so please provide information on how to login.

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bat file used on FNF: build-Itch-WINDOWS-SECRET.bat

Please provide information on how to login.

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You’re supposed to edit the PATH environment variable, not create one called butler.

Please provide information on how to do it, a command prompt command please, i deleted the one i made when i saw your message.

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You use the same window. You do not edit an environment variable in the command prompt.

Either way, I cannot show you because I do not use Windows. Simply look up “how to add a directory to PATH”.

i can use butler now, ty :D

Glad to hear. Don’t be surprised you had troubles. Windows is infamously unfriendly to programming setups.