Nolvus Automagic Downloader

Background for those interested

The Nolvus modpack requires a lot of files to be downloaded from Nexus Mods. Although possible to download the mods through manually "clicking" the "Slow Download" button on the Nexus Mods website rendered within the Nolvus Dashboard. This will take a substantial amount of time to complete.

The solution of course is to just buy the premium subscription from Nexus Mods. But that's not why you are here ;) - nor me.

Being annoyed at manually clicking the slow download button, I decided to find out how to automate it. Of course the inital thought is to use an automated mouse clicker. This doesn't work since the window rendering the website might not be scrolled to the correct position or some Nexus mods video ads would popup over the button etc.

Requirements

Launch the Nolvus Dashboard with the --remote-debugging-port=8088. This can be done on Windows by creating a shortcut of the executable and then specifying the flags after the executable in the Target field.

Example:

Target: "<path to exe>" --remote-debugging-port=8088

Then run the Automagic Downloader.

go run .

Build Nolvus Automagic Downloader

git clone git@github.com:Benehiko/nolvus-automagic-downloader.git
cd nolvus-automagic-downloader
go build .
./nolvus-automagic-downloader

Run Nolvus with Wine

Nolvus is a .Net application running Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), specifically CEFSharp.

The Wine setup I found to work through bottles with the sys-wine-9.0 runner and the following dependencies:

- arial32
- times32
- courie32
- mono
- gecko
- vcredist2019
- andale32
- arialb32
- comic32
- georgi32
- impact32
- tahoma32
- trebuc32
- verdan32
- webdin32
- allfonts
- dotnet40
- dotnet45
- dotnet46
- dotnet461
- dotnet462
- dotnet472
- vcredist2022
- vcredist6
- vcredist2015
- dotnet452
- vcredist2013
- consolas
- unifont

Once the Nolvus Dashboard does the installation steps (with the CEF popups) after clicking the "Slow Download" button it might give you an error about missing fonts, specifically the SegoeUI fonts.

Below are instructions for installing Microsoft fonts on Arch.

yay -Sy ttf-win10

Other packages such as ttf-ms-win10-auto didn't work for me. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Microsoft_fonts

Misc

Running the downloads this way could re-focus the mouse on to the popup window which is very annoying if you are still using the PC.

So far I have been able to disable the rendering through CEF with additional flags but this does not prevent Nolvus from popping up a new window.

--off-screen-rendering-enabled --headless --disable-gpu