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So, the new update added the very cool feature to export and import a blueprint as a string / from a string. Is there anyway to call these fuctionalities from a lua script? Especially importing a blueprint from a string would be awesome.

E.g. this one creates a circle made out of red belts. How can i now import that via a lua script

Basic concept:

• remove the leading "0", it is a some kind of version
• decode the base64 string
• decompress the result, which is zlib compressed ([1] may be helpful)
• parse the json and do stuff with it

Kind regards, Gerhard

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... ta-in-unix

I got the basic concept, but i thought there would be an easier way to use them with a build in function from factorio api ?

I'd like an easy api way.

eg. add a blueprint book to the "game blueprints"-frame in script.

I had this already moved to Modding interface requests, but I see you already created a new topic: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=45704