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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