What you're probably looking for is this wiki page https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Mod_structure
Some of the modding documentation is on the wiki for legacy reasons, but there are plans/efforts to bring it all to the api docs.


I specifically asked for JSON schema. Most IDEs have support for ...

What you're probably looking for is this wiki page https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Mod_structure
Some of the modding documentation is on the wiki for legacy reasons, but there are plans/efforts to bring it all to the api docs.

... Co Ltd VGM5SX48C40AG-STACN 16384 MB 4800 MHz 1.1 v 64|64
0.300 Info ModManager.cpp:278: Found duplicate mod any-planet-start, using highest ... 26.663 Info HttpSharedState.cpp:186: Status code: 0
26.663 Error ModPortal.cpp:585: Mod portal API call failed: status 520, error: schannel: next ...

... CURL library being used that's causing the problem? I noticed that the dl-mod.factorio.com domain is using a Let's Encrypt certificate—could there be a ... full?version=2.0.55&lang=zh-CN&is_space_age=true
64.391 Info ModPortal.cpp:613: Downloading /download/aai-industry/685af7c6cbc35dd209f4b2d4 ...

... to a google search.
For example, "-earendel" will hide all of earendel's mods.
The mod portal used to not support it because mellisearch, the api it switched to a while go, didn't have it, but it had since been updated to support it.

It's not perfect, but you can bookmark a search term and use that ...

I'd like a way to hide mods or authors on the portal when skimming it. Currently there's no filtering of that sort. Mostly I want to be able to hide mods that I don't care about that are updated often, or the mods of developers I'm not interested in following.

I think it would be useful for users on the mod portal to be able to vote for tags and categories on mods, so that users can sort by the community voted tags and/or the developer picked tags. This would be useful for people to vote to add tags to mods that are mislabeled, or remove other tags. It would ...

... each this would strictly be an upgrade.


That's not hard to test with mods there are plenty different popular mods on the portal, to me, in vanilla that would be mostly useless or detrimental, an easier way to have slower train would actually be better.

In your average base if the train complete ...

Remake of the classic Progressive Running mod for 2.0 and Space Age.

This mod makes it so that, if you are wearing exoskeletons, your run speed is ... you, please give me a detailed bug report here or preferably on the mod portal discussion tab https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Progressive_Running_2_0 ...

I didn’t realize so many of those ideas were already covered by mods. The issues with boats and water make sense, especially getting stranded or stuck ... since the mech armor. There's a tag "transportation" now in the mod portal, so i would recommend using that to find out the new vehicules ...

... The big rig truck that run on diesel fuel already exist as a mod :
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/kj_warrig

So is the cargo ship ! https ... airplanes you will find more result calling them "aircraft" in the mod portal : https://mods.factorio.com/query/aircraft/downloaded/1?version=1.1

I ...

... the API does not do any sort of search. You can request specific mod(s) or all mods and nothing in between yet. Search functionality that matches the official mod portal and in-game mod browser search functions would be a good request to make!


I did not want to resort to this method ...

Unfortunately the API does not do any sort of search. You can request specific mod(s) or all mods and nothing in between yet. Search functionality that matches the official mod portal and in-game mod browser search functions would be a good request to make!

Loewchen wrote: Tue Jun 24, 2025 10:32 pm There is no mod with that name I'd assume. https://mods.factorio.com/api/mods?hide ... Krastorio2 works.

So you need to specify the full ID of mod? It's somehow stupid. So i should request the entire database through page_size=max to filter them humanly?

There is no mod with that name I'd assume. https://mods.factorio.com/api/mods?hide ... Krastorio2 works.

Hello again, this is me with my browser of mods. Using API : https://wiki.factorio.com/Mod_portal_API#Releases
I can’t understand how to filter mods by name. I mean, I saw that there is an namelist parameter there, but how it works explained shitty. Neither the acceptable format, nor how it should look ...

TL;DR
Have a version filter when looking at user uploads on the Mod Portal.

What?
If you look at a modder's page for uploaded mods, it will list everything unordered, like look at this one:
https://mods.factorio.com/user/Quezler
Some 2.0 then 1.1, then 2.0 again, etc.

So similarly the browse page ...

... I can do is share my entire main save file. I have also been using many mods, including various custom patches, and a mod or two present locally that isn't on the portal. I'm uncertain how I can force Factorio to load only with officially published mods, but hopefully the crash would still happen as ...

Steps to reproduce:
0. Open Factorio 2.0.55
1. Go to the mod portal and click on a mod with an incorrectly formatted changelog: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Testbenchcontrols for example (I have reported the issue to them)

What happens:
The game freezes for about 1 second, after which the mod info is ...

Is there a way to report mods from the portal that are inappropriate, one way or another? For example:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/babay-1234-1234-test