jessedc/factorio-mod-updater

This module will automatically update all mods installed for a given instance of Factorio.

Note that this is primarily intended for headless dedicated Linux servers.

Features

Updates mods to the latest release based on mod-list.json
Removes all old versions of mods which are being updated
Limits releases to those compatible with the installed factorio version
Installs all required dependencies for the latest release of the currently enabled mods

Ensure a python3 implementation is available via something like command -v python3. If it's missing here's a few potential installation routes:

Ubuntu/Debian
```
sudo apt install python3 -y
```
RedHat Family (Fedora/CentOS/etc)
```
sudo yum install python36u -y
```
Gentoo
```
# Shouldn't be necessary since you'll have python for portage
emerge -vt python
```
Install requests as described in their documentation. Or, on gentoo:
```
emerge -vt dev-python/requests
```
Download the latest release and you should be good to go.

Two modes are supported:

--list - lists all mods described by mod-list.json, their current version, and the latest release
--update - performs an update of all mods for the current server

Here's a brief example of executing the command:

./mod_updater.py -s /opt/factorio/data/server-settings.json \
  -m /opt/factorio/mods \
  --fact-path /opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --update