SE Workshop Tool (SEWT) - Batch mod uploading and downloading

Are you a modder who wish you had better control over how you push mod updates?
Or are you a server admin who wants to prefetch mods before starting the server?

Well, I have a tool for you: SE Workshop Tool or SEWT (pronounced 'suit')

What is it?
It is a command-line driven utility designed to be scripted to perform batched uploads or downloads of mods.
There is no GUI at this time. This may or may not be implemented in the future.

Features

• Support for publishing all mods, ingame scripts, blueprints, worlds, scenarios; both existing and new
• Download all of the above as well (including extraction)
• Publish with custom visibility (Public, Hidden, Friends Only)
• Toggle the 'Development' tag, regardless of the actual branch you use to publish
• Compile mods before uploading for validation (works with whatever installation this tool is copied into)
• Change mod workshop categories (Block, Production, Animation, etc...)
• Works with or without the game running
• Verify script whitelist without loading the game

NOTE
This is still very much a work-in-progress, but I feel it is stable enough to release for players to use.

How to install
Download the release zip available here, then extract the two files into the SpaceEngineers\Bin64 directory.
Then run it from the command-line. To see available options, type:

Code:

seworkshoptool --help

How to Use
To download mods:

Code:

seworkshoptool --download --mods 754173702 341822890

To publish mods:

Code:

seworkshoptool --compile --mods FTL "%appdata%\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Stargate"

Example


Notice you can specify either a full path, or a directory name, relative to SE user data directory.

Works with develop and stable.

Full github is here, with build steps and runtime examples: https://github.com/Phoenix84/SEWorkshopTool

Enjoy!
Please leave feedback.

Known Issues
If you run into any issues launching SE after running this tool, just restart Steam. Not sure what causes it.

 

I hope I'm not the only person who was reminded of NEWTs from Harry Potter.

 

I've never seen (or read) it.

 

It's time, Phoenix. It's time.

Also cool tool, bro.

 

I'm sorry, I don't know if we can be friends anymore.

 

Authoring assets creates quite a number of intermediate files that don't need to be published. It would be great to have inclusion/exclusion rules when creating the .sbm. Something like --exclude Models/**/.fbx or --include @filterlist.txt. An alternative would be to pack the .sbm with another build-tool which already can produce .zip files from include/exclude filters and only publish the final file through SEWT, say -modpackage <file>. That would also allow to get rid of this zip spec-violation. But it would still require inspection of the .zip to make sure the exclusion list of potentionally harmful files is obeyed.

Also, I think publishing should be an explicit sub-command just like --download is (--publish ?). In my opinion that's more consistent.

 

It calls the game libraries for packing and uploading. I did that to avoid any incompatibilities when a client is downloading it.
I would very much like to change the exclusion list myself.
Hmm. Actually, I could use reflection and, and least for file extensions, exclude certain names by modifying the field that stores that information.

And added an --upload command would be consistent, and I've thought about it too. I'll do that. Thanks for the feedback!

EDIT: I've added both a custom extension exclusion list, and it now requires the --upload option, to avoid accidents.

 

Interesting, I'm gonna play with this mow

 

im make 1 click button for publish
just follow this link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5605885/how-to-run-a-bat-from-inside-the-ide

 

I keep forgetting to try this out!!!!!!!!

 

Nice one ! I'll give it a try.