MuscleLord How would this be run? I see it's a python file but when attempting to open it nothing happens.

My antivirus sais the file is infected by IGP.Generic

KlausKlever Looks good. No problem at all. I have put in some extra in the code, but it needs some changes later on. The API for changelogs does'nt give much info on what has changed 😄

pastebin.com/ZrK9R6st

MuscleLord  I have adapted the code a little. it was executable for me. Thanks for the template the time and effort. https://pastebin.com/0KnV2R7q

Now i have done some changes to this updater that uses api and info direct from modinfo.json inside every mod zipfile in your modfolder.

Here is the new code for testing pastebin.com/phpCRNXQ

That was a very good idé, i will take a look my self into that

If you ever come back to this, then yeah the API would be well worth investigating. A well built API with the endpoints you need will always always always be faster and more robust than trying to parse a user facing frontend.

Also worth investigating zipfile.ZipFile / zipfile.Path, with recent python versions you can directly open the modinfo.json in-place and query modid, mod versions etc. without having to extract the zip file or search for the mod by name.

Wouldn't it be easier if you used the API instead of scraping the modlist site?
github.com/anegostudios/vsmoddb#vs-mod-db-api-docs

says the site contains malicious code , when i click continue anyway the page is blank 

Really big thanks to Stahl for fixing this mod <3 . I have plans to upgrade this mod to GUI version. I can't give you exact release date yet because of much of work on studies. Anyway I'm here and I remember about this tool guys.

Seems the site coding has changed; an updated working script available here.

Thank you for your review, I'm glad to hear you liked it. About copying this tool to mod's folder, actually you don't have to, just copy full path to your mod folder at first time tool is starting and asking you for mods directory. Then you can also manually add or modify it by pasting/changing mod's directory path in file modsdir.txt in tool's location. 

NOTE: you have to put this in the mod's folder. else it just closes.

just tested it, i thought it will bring an UI and i would have to manually select what do i want to update but... it does not, at least not in automatic and IT'S AMAAAAAZING!!! :D i just let it run by itself and it's fantastic. the only thing someone may be concerned is the fact that sometimes it doesn't "find" the right mod BUT if it finds more than one "possibility" (for example i have visible terra pretta) it will ask for which one you want (in my case it was also the visible ores option), which, again, is AMAZING.

you should update a bit the description to tell people what does it do because at first sight it may not be interesting for everyone. i closed the tab and in the last second i re-opened it and i'm glad i did it :D