What is Mineager?

It's a plugin manager for your Minecraft server, but not in it's traditional sense. It provides a simple CLI to check if there are plugin updates available, and can download them for you.

Current state

Mineager is in alpha - bugs are expected.

How to use

See mineager --help for more information.

Install a new plugin from URL

Mineager tries to automatically detect plugin information from URLs.

To install new plugin, run mineager plugin install <URL>. It'll try to detect the name of the plugin, but it can be overwritten by --name option.

If you want to track the plugin, but don't want to download it, run mineager plugin add <URL>. The plugin will be added to the config, and can be later downloaded with mineager plugin update.

Important note

Some plugin types can extract all necessary information just from the plugin page, but some, i.e. Jenkins, require direct link to jar file. It's always safer to use full download URL.

Install a new plugin directly

Github.com releases

All github repositories are in https://github.com/<OWNER>/<REPO_NAME>. Mineager uses <OWNER>/<REPO_NAME> part, to identify the resource.

Let's say you want to install WanderfulAdditions plugin which has GH releases. Head over to github page: https://github.com/Prof-Bloodstone/WanderfulAdditions Copy resource identification (Prof-Bloodstone/WanderfulAdditions), and run:

mineager plugin manual install --type github --name 'WanderfulAdditions' --resource 'Prof-Bloodstone/WanderfulAdditions'

The latest release will automatically be downloaded and installed.

Spigot.com

Unfortunately, Spigot download page is behind CloudFlare, which makes it not possible to automatically download plugins.

Mineager will still provide information about plugin status, and give direct download links to manually download it.

All spigot resources are under: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/<NAME>.<ID>/. Mineager uses <ID> to identify the plugin.

Let's say you want to install EssentialsX from Spigot website for some reason. From https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/essentialsx.9089/, the resource id is 9089. Install it by running:

mineager plugin manual install --type spiget --name 'EssentialsX' --resource '9089'

Adding new plugins, without installing

If you want to add new plugin to config list, without downloading it first, use the add command. Its usages is just like for install command.

Checking for plugin updates

If you want to check, if there are any updates available, simply run: mineager plugin status

Updating all plugins

After checking that there are plugin updates available and you want to download newer versions, simply run mineager plugin update. If you have a plugin that needs to be downloaded from CloudFlare protected site, you'll be given a direct download link for it.

Developing Mineager

I HIGHLY recommend using a virtualenv - I personally prefer using pyenv with the pyenv-virtualenv module. It also has an easy to use pyenv-installer.

I'm developing it on Python 3.7.6, but it should work on Python 3.6+.

To install newest version of all packages and be able to use mineager command with all the changes you make, I recommend using pip install --editable ..