Curseforge Minecraft Modpack Downloader

A simple script to download mods from a CurseForge Minecraft modpack.

Source Script Requirements

• Python 3.4+
• appdirs
• requests
• python-tk
• progressbar2

Setup For Source Script

Linux

• Debian based
  sudo apt-get install python3 python3-tk python3-pip

• pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• How to use source

  • Find the modpack you want from the CurseForge modpack list
  • Unzip the download. There should be a manifest.json file.
  • Run <python> </path/to/downloader.py> --manifest </path/to/manifest.json file>

• Compiled Executable

  • Find the modpack you want from the CurseForge modpack list
  • Unzip the download. There should be a manifest.json file.
  • Run </path/to/downloader> --manifest </path/to/manifest.json file>

Windows

• Compiled Executable

  Accepted Arguments

  • CMD> C:\someFolder\cursePackDownloader.exe --portable --nogui --manifest ["/path/to/manifest.json"]

  • portable - makes the downloader cache downloads in a sub folder of current directory it is inside.

    ex: CMD> C:\someFolder\cursePackDownloader.exe --portable ex folder: C:\someFolder\curseCache

  • manifest - provides commandline option to select manifest.json file.

    ex: CMD> C:\someFolder\cursePackDownloader.exe --manifest [/path/to/manifest.json]

  • nogui - runs prgram in commandline only, and must include the manifest argument as well.

    ex: CMD> C:\someFolder\cursePackDownloader.exe --nogui --manifest [/path/to/manifest.json]

Python Source Script

download and install python http://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

take note of the install directory.

Open a command prompt and run the following (replace python_directory with your path).

<python_directory\Scripts\pip3.exe> install appdirs progressbar2

Accepted Arguments

• CMD> "path/to/python" "/path/to/downloader.py" --portable --nogui --manifest ["/path/to/manifest.json"]

• portable - makes the downloader cache downloads in a sub folder of current directory it is inside.

  ex: CMD> C:\Python34\python.exe ["/path/to/downloader.py"] --portable

  ex folder: C:\someFolder\curseCache

• manifest - provides commandline option to select manifest.json file.

  ex:CMD> /path/to/<python> ["/path/to/downloader.py"] --manifest ["/path/to/manifest.json"]

• nogui - runs program in commandline only, and manifest argument must be provided as well.

  ex: CMD> /path/to/<python> ["/path/to/downloader.py"] --nogui --manifest ["/path/to/manifest.json"]