CFAN - mod manager

[Blu3wolf]

Holy smokes! I started the CKAN project, and I've been away from development for a little bit and only just discovered this! It makes me immensely happy to see a CFAN fork.

Indeed, when I was looking at mod management for Factorio, I was thinking "If only there was something like CKAN for factorio... only to discover I was not the only, nor the first, to think that!

[trakos]

Quick update: I've added support for 0.13 mod portal, so CFAN should show a bit more mods for experimental Factorio.

Mod portal requires authorization, so CFAN reads username from Factorio's config.

[Thorman]

i posted an issue of mod list stuck having no new mods or updates to my installed mods which on checking for updates in factorio.exe shows that there is definitely updates to my mods... any fixes?

[AlyxDeLunar]

You made CFAN work for the official mod portal? Oh man, you're awesome, I was really scratching my head for how to do that. It's a nice mod manager too, well done on the port.

[trakos]

i posted an issue of mod list stuck having no new mods or updates to my installed mods which on checking for updates in factorio.exe shows that there is definitely updates to my mods... any fixes?

Fixed now! Sorry, had a long weekend and couldn't fix it earlier.

You made CFAN work for the official mod portal? Oh man, you're awesome, I was really scratching my head for how to do that. It's a nice mod manager too, well done on the port.

Thanks for nice words.

It's not that hard actually. There's a JSON mod list returned here: https://mods.factorio.com/api/mods . There's pagination, but it's easy to use - it gives you link to the next page.

It will only get you latest release of every mod, to get all releases you'd have to use http://mods.factorio.com/api/mods/<name>, for example http://mods.factorio.com/api/mods/20x20ArmorMK2 .

To download mod, you have to use download_url with added query parameters: ?username=<user>&token=<token> . CFAN simply reads those values (service-username and service-token) from Factorio config (location depends on the OS, %APPDATA%\Factorio\player-data.json , or <factorio-directory>\player-data.json or ~/.factorio/player-data.json). If those values are not there it tells the user that he/she has to use mod portal once, quit Factorio and restart CFAN.

[AlyxDeLunar]

To download mod, you have to use download_url with added query parameters: ?username=<user>&token=<token> . CFAN simply reads those values (service-username and service-token) from Factorio config (location depends on the OS, %APPDATA%\Factorio\player-data.json , or <factorio-directory>\player-data.json or ~/.factorio/player-data.json). If those values are not there it tells the user that he/she has to use mod portal once, quit Factorio and restart CFAN.

Ahah. See I had the first part figured out, but not the download authentication part. You've saved me good sir, thank you.
Is there documentation sitting around somewhere I missed, or did you figure that out on your own?

[Thorman]

I have the no updates to mods or no new mods issue again! Something wrong with the repository?

[trakos]

I have the no updates to mods or no new mods issue again! Something wrong with the repository?

Yeah, you might be right. Can you re-check now? I've fixed the issue - there was one more error I haven't anticipated, sorry.

[ltl_king]

I don't understand how to download.
With multiple different game types multiplayer.
Need a way to group them instead of having multiple different factorio folders for different games.
Download the latest CFAN version from the releases page
Got it.

Medium biter 3
all these different files.
Do I need them all.
I select latest release but nothing happen.
Medium biter 2
Files
Medium biter 1
files
spitter4
files
spitter 3
files
spitter 2
files
spitter 1
files

Huh?

[Thorman]

for some reason it isn't working with the 0.15 expirimental... can you look into it?

[trakos]

Hey, you mean empty mods list? I fixed it, should work with 0.15 now. I didn't know people were still using cfan, now that in-game integration improved .

If you will still have some issues, try deleting CFAN directory (while cfan is closed) in appdata (you can use file -> open factorio directory to find it quickly).

[Thorman]

Well to be honest cfan is 10 times better than the in game as it doesn't require two launches of the game just to update the mods!

[trakos]

Thanks, I'm glad it's useful!

[Netoen]

Hey, first of all many thanx for CFAN. I've been using CKAN ever since it came out, so I plan on using CFAN. But as of recent days each time I refresh repositories (I guess ?) I get such error: "Couldn't download http://cfan.trakos.pl/repo/repository_v2.tar.gz.
Thank you in advance

[myricaulus]

Buhu, does anybody might have a mirror of this cfan.trakos.pl/repo/repository_v2.tar.gz file? The domain seems down again. This time it got worse as it also kinda successfully downloaded nothing while erasing my lokal repo. This tool is really the best for managing mods, similar to CKAN, which i even support on patreon . Trakos, do you have a patreon account? So please take my money and fix this

[myricaulus]

So i got annoyed and rebuild the repository list myself. It is currently accessible at https://myricaulus.ddnss.de:443/repository_v2.tar.gz.
To get a error free access via SSL install my CA as a rootCA from https://myricaulus.ddnss.de:443/Myricaulus-rootCA.crt
To download the modified CFAN executables go to https://myricaulus.ddnss.de:443/CFAN-binarys.7z

Everything is supplied as is without any warranties. The repository might get outdated, since i currently need to manually update it.
Have fun

PS.: Of cource do not update to official Version of CFAN as long as you want to use my modified one. Also there might also be some way to edit the path to the repository within the unmodified binary. Feel free to tell me how . For me it was easier to rebuild it using different default values.

[trakos]

Hey, it was a temporary hiccup, it works now.

It's possible to add additional repos without redownloading CFAN, just use top menu settings -> CFAN settings, click new and put in name|url, for example myricaulus|https://myricaulus.ddnss.de:443/repository_v2.tar.gz . I've never actually tested it, but it should work just fine

[myricaulus]

I did test it, and to add one entry it also downloads some repo-list from the server. The adding does not work when this repo-list is not available since the window does not open then. Extremely unfortunately. This fact actually lead me to rebuild the program myself

Anyways as everything seem to be fine now again, i will discontinue the distribution of my modified binary files. I will leave the repo file and maybe i will write a small script which copies the remote repo to my location whenever i open cfan, so dont expect it be very current most of the times