CurseForge Mods Scraper

🔥 CurseForge Mods Scraper

🚀 Export Minecraft mod data from CurseForge in seconds. Mod name, slug, downloads, categories, loader, supported MC versions, license, author, main file URL, screenshots, and the full description - straight to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The CurseForge Mods Scraper turns the public CurseForge Minecraft Mods catalog into a clean, structured dataset. It fetches each mod's server-rendered detail page (no API key required, no Cloudflare key needed from you) and parses the embedded React Server Components payload to surface every field the public page exposes.

Coverage spans 52 official Minecraft mod categories (Adventure & RPG, Magic, Storage, Technology, Performance, Utility & QoL, Map and Information, Tinker's Construct, Create, Refined Storage, and more), 7 mod loaders (Forge, Fabric, NeoForge, Quilt, LiteLoader, Cauldron, Any), and every Minecraft release version from 1.7.10 up to the current 1.21.x line.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🎮 Modpack creators	Identify popular mods by loader and MC version
🛠️ Launcher and tool developers	Mirror CurseForge metadata into your own DB
📊 Data analysts	Track download counts, loader market share, license trends
🎥 Content creators	Find the top-downloaded mods for a specific version before recording
🏢 Server operators	Audit which mods are compatible with your server stack
🤖 AI / ML teams	Build a corpus of mod descriptions and metadata

📋 What the CurseForge Mods Scraper does

• Fetches the CurseForge /minecraft/mc-mods listing or /search?search=... page with a real Chrome TLS fingerprint.
• Extracts the slug of every mod the SSR page surfaces (up to 20 per query).
• Visits each mod's detail page and parses the embedded RSC payload for the full project record.
• Applies post-fetch filters for categoryIds, gameVersions, and modLoaderTypes against the surfaced set.
• Flattens everything into a 23-field record with imageUrl first and error last.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

💡 Why it matters: the official CurseForge API requires a private API key and the internal web API is hard-locked behind Cloudflare bot management. This actor uses the public detail pages directly - the data you'd see in a browser, without needing your own key or cf_clearance cookie.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: author, categories, dateCreated, downloadCount, gameVersion, id, imageUrl, licenseType, modLoader, name, primaryCategory, results, scrapedAt, slug, summary, updateDate, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: CurseForge only server-renders the first 20 mods of any listing; the rest is hydrated client-side via a Cloudflare-protected internal API. This scraper returns up to ~20 mods per query. To widen coverage, run multiple queries with different searchQuery terms: that's the recommended workflow. categoryIds, gameVersions, and modLoaderTypes are applied as post-fetch filters on the surfaced set so the input remains honest.

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up. Create a free Apify account w/ $5 credit.
2. Open the CurseForge Mods Scraper page.
3. Set inputs. Type a searchQuery and pick a sort field. Optionally add categoryIds, gameVersions, modLoaderTypes.
4. Run. Click Start. Free users get 10 items, paid users up to 1,000,000 (in batches of ~20 per query).
5. Export. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more catalog and marketplace scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this is an independent tool, not affiliated with Overwolf, CurseForge, or Mojang. Only publicly available data from the CurseForge website is collected. Respect the licenses of the mods you download.

🆘 Need Help?

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