Nexus Mods API Support - is this the correct place for questions?

[mnelson999]

Hey All!

For the Nexus Mods APIs:  

https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/NexusMods/nexus-mods_public_api_params_in_form_data/1.0

What's the best thread here to ask questions about them?

Best Regards!

[Pickysaurus]

You can ask your questions here, sure

[mnelson999]

Cool! 

Here's my question: for the following API, can we please have a couple of mod number values added to the return results? 

• /v1/games/{game_domain_name}/mods/{id}.json
  • from the API page here

There are several of the mod count values already being returned by the API like:

• "mod_downloads": 147565,
• "mod_unique_downloads": 95973,
•  "endorsement_count": 7077,

but I think there a few other essential values (from the mod author perspective) that be exceptionally nice to have added like:

• Total Views  
  • like "mod_total_views": 1234
• Posts
  • like "mod_posts_count": 1234

These values are already displayed on the page and so I hope that these would be very easy to add to the API's return results.

Thank you and best regards!

[Pickysaurus]

9 hours ago, mnelson999 said:

Cool! 

Here's my question: for the following API, can we please have a couple of mod number values added to the return results? 

• /v1/games/{game_domain_name}/mods/{id}.json
  • from the API page here

There are several of the mod count values already being returned by the API like:

• "mod_downloads": 147565,
• "mod_unique_downloads": 95973,
•  "endorsement_count": 7077,

but I think there a few other essential values (from the mod author perspective) that be exceptionally nice to have added like:

• Total Views  
  • like "mod_total_views": 1234
• Posts
  • like "mod_posts_count": 1234

These values are already displayed on the page and so I hope that these would be very easy to add to the API's return results.

Thank you and best regards!

The V1 API is designed for mod managers to be able to download files. It doesn't include a lot of the flavour data like those counts. I don't believe we have plans to add this to the V1 API but we are in the process of moving everything to a V2 GraphQL API that will be used to serve the pages on the site under the hood so should have more of the data you need. 

 

Out of interest, what do you need this for? Are you building something cool? 

[mnelson999]

14 hours ago, Pickysaurus said:

Out of interest, what do you need this for? Are you building something cool? 

I hope so 

I'm the author of this mod which allows other mod authors to track activity across their mods (please give it a try if you like!).   

For example, say I have ten mods that I've created, and rather than going to each one individually to see if someone has posted a comment, this utility quickly shows me (as the mod author) where I need to go to respond to that comment.   Without a quick summary, it's too easy to overlook a comment from someone, and I like to be a responsive author.

Using the API for this, rather than scraping, is highly desirable to me.  Currently it's workable yet the scraping is only out of necessity.

So with this, please consider adding these extra values. 

Best Regards!