CurseForge

CurseForge
URL	https://curseforge.com
Status	Online!
Archiving status	In progress... (API data) Not saved yet (website)
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Curseforge (curseforge.com^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}) is a game modification hosting website. It is particularly notable for being the de facto website for hosting community-made Minecraft mods.

Events

Forums deprecation

On 2022 December 25, CurseForge's Authors^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} and Minecraft^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} forums were marked as deprecated Soon™.

URL patterns

CurseForge is organized into 'projects'. Each project has a video game and a project type attached; this is how the URL slug is determined. For example, https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/botania^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} has components for the video game (Minecraft) and the type (mc-mod). This makes guessing URLs extremely difficult.

However, there is a projects endpoint which is a number incrementing from 1 to infinity; as such, these URLs can be guessed very easily. This is the internal identifier, and redirects to the pretty URL slug. (This number is used in various other places in the API.) For example, https://curseforge.com/projects/225643^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} redierects to https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/botania^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}.

API Archival

API documentation found at docs.curseforge.com^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}. A list of information not found in the official documentation is found below:

• https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files/{fileid}/download leads to the download of each of the fileIDs found in https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files
• https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/description does not work
• https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files/{fileid}/change-log exists
• https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/comments exists
• https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files/{fileid}/additional-files exists. There are a few cases where an additional file itself has additional files.

Below is a table of ArchiveBot runs on the API:

API	Status	Archive details
		Tool	URL list	Job	Date	Size	Objects	Notes
https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modId}/files	Saved!	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)	curseforge_modids.txt (AB · WB)	ckpte	2024-01-19		1 warc
https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files?pageIndex={index}	Saved!	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)	www.curseforge.com_api_later_pages.txt (AB · WB)	8f579	2024-01-20		1 warc
https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files/{fileid}/additional-files	Saved!	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)	www.curseforge.com_api_additional_files.txt (AB · WB)	e9np9	2024-01-20		1 warc
https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files/{fileid}/additional-files	Saved!	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)	www.curseforge.com_api_double_additional_files.txt (AB · WB)	52ily	2024-01-21		1 warc
https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files/{fileid}/download	Partially saved	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)	www.curseforge.com_api_mods_download.txt (AB · WB)	47cah	2024-01-22		840 warcs	~500k of 2M mods downloaded successfully; edge.forgecdn.net temporarily was ignoring the Host header, avoiding wpull's 307 bug, but that changed partway through and we started getting 404s
	In progress...	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)	www.curseforge.com_mod_download_404s_resume.txt (AB · WB)	cpamk	2024-01-22
https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/comments	Not saved yet	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)
https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/{modid}/files/{fileid}/change-log	Not saved yet	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)
Search	Not saved yet	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)
Profile Pictures	Not saved yet	ArchiveBot (!ao < list)

Each run uses information from one of the previous runs. The first list was made by incrementing the modID from 0 to 999,999.

While https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/963238 looks like it should provide information about each mod, it always gives 403 Forbidden resource (unlike nonexistent endpoints, which give 404 Cannot GET /api/v1/nonexistent). Information about individual mods is available via the search API (https://www.curseforge.com/api/v1/mods/search?gameId=432&index=0), but the search API only gives at most 10,000 results for each query, so queries will need to be chosen that give less than that many results.