Keepup

Keeps Minecraft server dependencies up to date based on a hocon/json definition. Keepup downloads all relevant files using rclone remotes, URLs, or GitHub artifacts in the config, then creates symlinks to a desired folder.

Features

• Download all files in parallel, caching them by last updated/filesize headers for very fast downloads.
• Format configs nicely and reuse across multiple servers on a network thanks to HOCON's substitutions, and --json-path option.
• Automatically find the latest release for GitHub artifacts, or force it with --override-github-release.
• Support for GitHub authorization tokens to bypass ratelimits or access private repos.
• Use any service supported by rclone! (Google Drive, S3, etc...)

Usage

Download and run the latest release, we offer both a zip file that can run on any system with Java installed or a native executable for Linux that has far lower startup time.

Usage: keepup [OPTIONS] INPUT DOWNLOADPATH DEST

Options:
  --json-path TEXT                 Path to the root object to download from,
  uses keys separated by .
  --file-type [json|hocon]         Type of file for the input stream
  --ignore-similar                 Don't create symlinks for files with
                                   matching characters before the first number
  --fail-all-downloads             Don't actually download anything, useful
  for testing
  --hide-progress-bar              Does not show progress bar if set to true
  --override-github-release [NONE|LATEST_RELEASE|LATEST]
                                   Force downloading the latest version of
                                   files from GitHub
  --cache-expiration-time VALUE
  --github-auth-token TEXT         Used to access private repos or get a
                                   higher rate limit
  -h, --help                       Show this message and exit

Arguments:
  INPUT         Path to the file
  DOWNLOADPATH  Path to download files to
  DEST

Config

The config can be a nested, with the only requirement being that all leaf nodes are strings, ex:

general {
  plugins {
    dep1: "https://..."
    dep2: "https://..."
  }
  dep3: "https://..."
}

Nodes

Each node may be:

• An http(s) url
• github:owner/repo:version:artifactRegex to download a GitHub release, supports latest for version.
• An rclone remote (defined in the global rclone config or manually) and path remotename:path/to/file
• A . to ignore a dependency (useful with HOCON)

HOCON features

HOCON's substitutions feature is useful for creating bundles of plugins that you can inherit from.

Our usecases

Production servers

We have one config file with all our dependencies and use the --json-path option to narrow it down to the currently running server. We run the script on startup in a Docker image.

Dev environment

In a separate dev Docker container, on startup we:

• Download our production config from GitHub
• Merge this config with a local.conf
• Run keepup with --json-path local so devs can quickly emulate production environments or pick and choose bundles