Curseforge Minecraft Modpack Downloader

A simple script to download mods from a CurseForge Minecraft modpack.

Source Script Requirements

• Python 3.4+
• appdirs
• requests
• python-tk
• progressbar2

Setup For Source Script

Linux

• Debian based
  sudo apt-get install python3 python3-tk python3-pip

• pip3 install -r requirements.txt

  • How to use source

  • Find the modpack you want from the CurseForge modpack list

  • Unzip the download. There should be a manifest.json file.

  • Run <python> </path/to/downloader.py> --manifest </path/to/manifest.json file>

  • Compiled Executable

  • Find the modpack you want from the CurseForge modpack list

  • Unzip the download. There should be a manifest.json file.

  • Run </path/to/downloader> --manifest </path/to/manifest.json file>

Windows

• Compiled Executable

  Accepted Arguments

  • CMD> C:\someFolder\cursePackDownloader.exe --portable --nogui --manifest ["/path/to/manifest.json"]

  • portable - makes the downloader cache downloads in a sub folder of current directory it is inside.

    ex: CMD> C:\someFolder\cursePackDownloader.exe --portable ex folder: C:\someFolder\curseCache

  • manifest - provides commandline option to select manifest.json file.

    ex: CMD> C:\someFolder\cursePackDownloader.exe --manifest [/path/to/manifest.json]

  • nogui - runs prgram in commandline only, and must include the manifest argument as well.

    ex: CMD> C:\someFolder\cursePackDownloader.exe --nogui --manifest [/path/to/manifest.json]

  Python Source Script

  download and install python http://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

  take note of the install directory.

  Open a command prompt and run the following (replace python_directory with your path).

  <python_directory\Scripts\pip3.exe> install appdirs progressbar2

  Accepted Arguments

  • CMD> "path/to/python" "/path/to/downloader.py" --portable --nogui --manifest ["/path/to/manifest.json"]

  • portable - makes the downloader cache downloads in a sub folder of current directory it is inside.

    ex: CMD> C:\Python34\python.exe ["/path/to/downloader.py"] --portable

    ex folder: C:\someFolder\curseCache

  • manifest - provides commandline option to select manifest.json file.

    ex:CMD> /path/to/<python> ["/path/to/downloader.py"] --manifest ["/path/to/manifest.json"]

  • nogui - runs program in commandline only, and manifest argument must be provided as well.

    ex: CMD> /path/to/<python> ["/path/to/downloader.py"] --nogui --manifest ["/path/to/manifest.json"]