ItsANoBrainer / FiveMArtifactUpdater

A Node.JS tool to automatically install or update your FiveM server artifacts.

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FiveM Artifact Updater

FiveM Artifact Updater is an application created with Node.JS to easily and quickly install/update your artifacts with the click of a button. No more are the days of needing to manually navigate to the Artifacts Site, download whatever version, unzip and replace your files. This tool does all that for you, and more with config file to tune it to your liking, as well as support for replacing all config file items with command line arguments for on the fly usage. It will also clean up after itself afterwards!

Features

• Ability to install the latest, recommended, newest, or critical FiveM builds with a single click
• Ability to use custom command line arguments to adjust install on a case by case basis

Installation

FiveM Artifact Updater requires Node.js to run.

1. Install Node.JS. May require a computer restart.
2. Place the FiveMArtifactUpdater folder in the same directory as your txData and artifacts folders
3. Run InstallDependencies.bat or npm install in the install directory

Usage

After installing the dependencies you can use the application.

1. Navigate to the config.json and verify the artifactsDirectory value matches the folder name of the artifacts folder your server is using. By default this is artifacts. This application's folder should be in the same directory as your txData and artifacts folders.
2. Verify the downloadType in the config.json is what you want. Supported options are below
3. Run the UpdateArtifacts.bat and follow the prompts

Command Line Arguments

You can edit the UpdateArtifacts.bat file and add as many command line arguments like below:

node index.js -allowPrompt false

This works for any and all keys in the config.json:

• artifactsURL <url> | URL to webscrape from
• artifactsDirectory <directoryName> | Directory to place the unzipped artifacts
• downloadType <type> | Which dynamic build to pull. Supports latest for the newest build, optional for the optional build, and recommended for the recommended build, and critical for whatever thats for
• verbose <true/false> | Show more console logging
• allowPrompt <true/false> | Prompt the user for input before starting and doing important things

Default config.json

{
    "artifactsURL": "https://runtime.fivem.net/artifacts/fivem/build_server_windows/master",
    "artifactsDirectory": "../artifacts/",
    "zipDirectory": "./artifacts-zipped/",
    "downloadType": "latest",
    "verbose": false,
    "allowPrompt": true
}

Tech

• Node.JS - evented I/O for the backend

How it Works

This was a great personal project not only for my use case (needing to easily and quickly update my servers artifacts), but also to spend more time learning Javascript and some new Node.JS modules. Here is what it does:

1. Request - Use a get request to the cfx changelog api endpoint to get the url for the artifact build we want
2. Download New Artifacts - Using axios we download the server.zip from the request url
3. Delete Current Artifacts - If they exist, we use fs to delete the current artifacts
4. Extract server.zip - Using node-stream-zipwe extract theserver.zip` files into our artifacts folder
5. Cleanup - Using fs we delete everything we downloaded

Development

Want to contribute? Great!

This is an application for competant people who can follow directions. If you know what you're doing and are encountering issues, use the Issues and Pull Request section appropriately.

Change Log

v2.0.0

No longer uses webscraping at all, now uses the cfx changelog api endpoint. This endpoint has the artifacts bundled as a .zip instead of .7z as well, which allowed for lowering the package size by over 92% (1.53mb instead of 21.8mb).

• Refactored codebase, use new system for getting artifacts url, downloading, and extracting
• Removed webscrape dependency
• Removed html parser dependency
• Removed https dependency
• Removed 7zip-bin and node-7z dependencies (bulk of disk size change)
• Moved download from https to axios
• Removed buildSpecific option as the new method does not support it. Use v1.0.0 if you really need it.
• 50% less lines, 28% less characters

v1.0.0

• Initial Release

Future ToDos

• Linux support?

License

GNU GPL v3