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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

2y ago

Nexusmods Collections API

Since this would be considered piracy these days, has anyone bothered to reverse-engineer how Vortex handles collections, so they can just be imported straight to Mod Organizer?

Every single fucking other application has bend the knee to Nexus, and forces you to fucking download files one by one, manually clicking each and every download.

There's gotta be a better way.

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Is the nexus mod manager bad or something? I've used it a ton in the past but haven't played any modded games since I built a new PC last year so I'm a bit out of the loop...
I know CurseForge had some shit (which was "fixed" by creating a separate program without Overwolf) but haven't heard anything about Nexus
- Yes, Vortex is awful. Wanna download a 100 mod collection without shilling money to Nexus, which they sure as fuck won't give to mod creators?
  Lmao you better like clicking 300 times to finish those downloads, oh and the fucking buttons keep moving to combat "automation software".
  
  I was wondering wtf you were talking about with this "Vortex" thing but I guess that just goes to show you how long it's been since I used it lol
  
  What's the problem with vortex? As a modder for total war, I dream about the day total war would get a mod launcher like that.
- I think it doesn't even support Linux which makes Vortex not relevant
  
  Lol
  
  Can be used through steam tinker launch pretty easily, but doesn’t have native support
  
  None of the mod managers that I'm aware of you'd generally be using for nexus mods do so idk why that matters.
This is quite thought provoking. I never thought in this manner.
Don't bother using collection. When I made one for personal use, the fucker downloaded some outdated version of the mod. I started using my download history to keep in check what I've downloaded and used vortex to handle the installation. Keeping bookmarks would be a better option.
In general, simply dropping the mods in the correct location installs the mod, but few mods (like in case of Cyberpunk 2077, Redmods) get compiled to show up as game files, which might complicated the proceduce but I think its possible.
I don't know what you mean by downloading one by one. Nexus does lets you download multiple mods at a time when done manually. When installing mods with Vortex, it downloads it, installs it, verifies it and looks for the next in the queue.
But if you are still keen to use more bandwidth, perhaps try using tor, see if Nexus allows it? I haven't checked on my end since I never really downloaded huge mods.
IIRC, Vortex can install manually downloaded mod files.
Note that mods are not piracy. Developers make toolkits to extend the longevity of the game.
- If you don't have Nexus Premium you need to go through each mod individually and manually download it. Some collections are well over 100 mods.
  With Premium it will automate that for you. This is what OP is trying to "pirate".
  
  I'm so glad I finally baught premium on nexus tbh. But my account was grandfathered in when they went to me monthly sub.
  But it would be nice for free accounts to at least download in parallel even at the cap speed at least. It was years before I upgraded my account,so I know the pain.
- Mods themselves aren't piracy, but circumventing paywalls that are meant to gatekeep content is.
No need for reverse engineering. Vortex is already open source under GPL3. https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/Vortex
- Yes and no. It's just ass to read the "source" code because everything's split into 10000 files.
  And that's obviously to try obfuscate how collections work.
  
  Looks like your standard electron app to me. I'm no software developer so I could be wrong tho
Hey op I know this is days old by now but I just came across this:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/96964
- Uploaded today it seems, will check out.

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