We want to thank the community for helping us push this through and improving the CurseForge experience for everyone! The API is, at heart, a service that empowers the community to create more tools and expand the modding workspace. If you have any questions or feedback about this, please join our Discord and let us know. Please note, this is fresh from the oven and currently on Alpha. We plan to keep this version in feature parity with the Overwolf version in the future. We’ve taken this into consideration and developed a standalone version of the CurseForge app on Windows, based on Electron, which you can download here.Īs with the Linux version, it currently supports World of Warcraft only. Many of the community members voiced their preference for a leaner approach to managing mods. Standalone Version of CurseForge App is Available So far we had a total of 170 approved applications including: The TOS enables essential community projects, like Discord bots, mod managers, updates, news and stats to access the API in order to grow and support gamers. As a workaround, along with the official API, we created a Terms of Service (TOS) agreement with the goal of providing stabilization and allowing us to scale. Authors’ consent and the impact on earnings were solved by releasing a toggle that enables creators to choose whether or not they want to allow distribution of their mods outside of the CurseForge ecosystem.ĭownloads originated from 3rd party services rely on CurseForge servers and CDN, incurring substantial costs and bypassing monetization which is used to fuel the Authors Rewards Points system. We’re excited to be giving back the control of project distribution to the authors through the new API. How to lessen the impact on CurseForge’s servers and CDN.How to address the impact on Authors’ earnings. Authors’ consent when it comes to third party distribution of their creations.The three areas where we needed to find sustainable solutions in order to move forward with the API were: In October 2020, prompted by community feedback, we explored offering an official well-documented API for CurseForge mods and we addressed three core concerns in a Medium post. We are excited to announce that the official CurseForge API is now available. Originally Posted by Overwolf The Road to Releasing The Official CurseForge API
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