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Minecraft CurseForge API

An ergonomic Deno wrapper around the NPM package curseforge-api, tailored just for Minecraft.

Table of Contents

Getting Started

In a Deno project:

import { CurseForge } from "https://deno.land/x/minecraft_curseforge_api@0.5.0/mod.ts";

const curseForge = new CurseForge("YOUR_API_KEY", defaultOptions);

await curseForge.getMod(slugOrID);
await curseForge.searchMods(nameOrAuthor, options);
await curseForge.getFiles(modID, options);
await curseForge.getNewestFile(modID, options);

const dependencies = curseForge.dependencies(file, options);

for await (const [modID, file] of dependencies) {
  // do something with dependency
}

// helper methods
await dependencies.toEntries();
await dependencies.toObject();
await dependencies.toFiles();
await dependencies.toMap();
await dependencies.toGraph();

Type Definitions

The package provides robust types specific to Minecraft, trimming out unused or irrelevant CurseForge fields, and altering the raw data to be more user-friendly and human-readable.

import type {
  File,
  MinecraftVersion,
  Mod,
  ModLoader,
} from "https://deno.land/x/minecraft_curseforge_api@0.5.0/mod.ts";

Types are also re-exported under the CurseForge namespace, which is merged with the main CurseForge class. This allows you to keep your imports very clean, and in more complex files it contextualizes type names for ease of comprehension.

import { CurseForge } from "https://deno.land/x/minecraft_curseforge_api@0.5.0/mod.ts";

const curseForge = new CurseForge("YOUR_API_KEY");

const modLoader: CurseForge.ModLoader = "Forge"; // easy access

let file: CurseForge.File; // disambiguated from browser File API or other File types

Errors

Errors are thrown in the following circumstances:

  • A CurseForgeResponseError is thrown when an error happens while fetching data.

  • A NotFoundError is thrown when a mod or file is not found by CurseForge.prototype.getMod() or CurseForge.prototype.getNewestFile().

  • A TypeError is thrown when CurseForge.prototype.dependencies() is called without a minecraft version or mod loader registered.

The custom errors are exported from both mod.ts and the CurseForge namespace for convenience:

import {
  CurseForge,
  NotFoundError,
} from "https://deno.land/x/minecraft_curseforge_api@0.5.0/mod.ts";

CurseForge.errors.NotFound; // mirrors Deno.errors API

CurseForge.errors.NotFound === NotFoundError; // true

Example usage:

import { CurseForge } from "https://deno.land/x/minecraft_curseforge_api@0.5.0/mod.ts";

new CurseForge("YOUR_API_KEY")
  .getMod("definitely not a mod,.,.,.,.,.")
  .catch((error) => {
    if (error instanceof CurseForge.errors.NotFound) {
      console.log("Mod not found!");
    } else {
      console.log("Something else went wrong!");
    }
  });

Cache

API calls are cached in-memory to avoid duplicate lookups.

await curseForge.getMod("jei");
await curseForge.getMod("jei"); // cached; doesn't make a network request

The cache is cleared when the CurseForge instance is garbage collected, or when the clearCache() method is called.

curseForge.clearCache();

Complete Example

In this example, we get the popular mod Quark, find its newest file for our targeted Minecraft version and mod loader, then fetch all of its required dependencies. At each stage we check to ensure that the previous operation was successful before proceeding - in this exact example it’s not necessary, but if you copy this script and modify the mod slug, mod loader, or minecraft version, these checks will save you!

import { CurseForge } from "https://deno.land/x/minecraft_curseforge_api@0.5.0/mod.ts";

const modLoader: CurseForge.ModLoader = "Forge";
const minecraftVersion: CurseForge.MinecraftVersion = "1.19.2";

const curseForge = new CurseForge(API_KEY, { minecraftVersion, modLoader });
const mod = await curseForge.getMod("quark");
const file = await curseForge.getNewestFile(mod.id);

curseForge.dependencies(file, { include: ["required"] })
  .toFiles()
  .then((depFiles) =>
    depFiles.forEach((depFile) => console.log(depFile.displayName))
  );