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1 month ago Is it possible to use this Mod Update checker with an API (for example in python)?
Hey @herowarriors0, this Mod Updater does not expose an API, but instead uses the official Modrinth API "Labrinth" to search for updates. If you want to create an update checker in Python, I suggest you to read the official Labrinth documentation.
Given that I can see your edit history, I will also reply to your previous question:
Hi! I don't know if it's possible, but I would love to use a python API to check for mod updates. I wanted to do it myself, but I can't really understand the Modrinth api haha. I was just wondering if you had any tips on how to do it, because I'm lost in the modrinth api documentation.
The Modrinth API is a openAPI 3.0 compliant API which you interact with using HTTP Calls. You should find a lot of videos on this topic e.g. YouTube - Working with APIs in Python. As Modrinth provides a openAPI specification, you could also use openapi-python-client to automatically create your client from the specification. If you want to update a mod given a file, you need to call the following methods:
- Get version from hash with the hex encoded sha1 hash of the file content.
- (optional) Get a project using the project_id received from the preivous call to check whether the mod is available for the selected loader.
- List project's versions using the project_id and the version you want to update to. This call should return an array of files which you can sort by filename or date_published to get the latest update for the version.
Hope that helps!
Is it possible to use this Mod Update checker with an API (for example in python)?