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I want to make mods downloading tool.
Wiki says the Mod Portal API can download all mods available on the official Factorio mod portal without any kind of authentication or account information, but I cant found how to download mods without login

https://wiki.factorio.com/Mod_portal_API

yuta0801 wrote:I want to make mods downloading tool.
Wiki says the Mod Portal API can download all mods available on the official Factorio mod portal without any kind of authentication or account information, but I cant found how to download mods without login

https://wiki.factorio.com/Mod_portal_API

Wow that would be so great for software pirates, wouldn't be it?

I think you can use the API without authentication, but you'll probably need to be authenticated to actually DL a mod.

Simply ask the user for their service token. It's stored in player-data.json.

eradicator wrote:Simply ask the user for their service token. It's stored in player-data.json.

Can I download mod with token?

I can seve user's password or, every time download mods, ask password.
but, I don't think it is best practice.

yuta0801 wrote:

eradicator wrote:Simply ask the user for their service token. It's stored in player-data.json.

Can I download mod with token?

Sure. That's how the game does it. Just look at the console while using the in-game mod browser or something.

yuta0801 wrote:I can seve user's password or, every time download mods, ask password.
but, I don't think it is best practice.

Ask them for the path to player-data.json. It's already stored on disk :P

eradicator wrote:

yuta0801 wrote:

eradicator wrote:Simply ask the user for their service token. It's stored in player-data.json.

Can I download mod with token?

Sure. That's how the game does it. Just look at the console while using the in-game mod browser or something.

yuta0801 wrote:I can seve user's password or, every time download mods, ask password.
but, I don't think it is best practice.

Ask them for the path to player-data.json. It's already stored on disk

The program to get the token is completed, but I do not know how to download MOD with token...
Can you tell me the way of it in more detail? thank you.

/download/modname-goes-here/5aa906e9211f35000ae7c569?username=eradicator&token=<private>

eradicator wrote:/download/modname-goes-here/5aa906e9211f35000ae7c569?username=eradicator&token=<private>

Thank you!

I was able to make a beautiful tool for your help. Thank you!

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Nice it worked out :). Btw quick look at your code i see it asks for 'Please enter your password', but the service token is not the password. So maybe you should change it to 'Please enter your service token'?

The app first looks for tokens from the player-data.json and, if not found, ask the username and password to retrieve the token from the API because I think the general user is not familiar with token.

yuta0801 wrote:The app first looks for tokens from the player-data.json and, if not found, ask the username and password to retrieve the token from the API because I think the general user is not familiar with token.

Ah. I wasn't sure if the API supplied a way of retrieving the token :). And i really only took a very short look at the code :p.