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I was looking to try a bunch of mod-packs with my siblings and I'd really like to script finding and installing mod-packs onto my Ubuntu Linux server from Linode. I don't want to use the built in Linode Minecraft snapshots because I would like to be able to have a couple dozen installed and the make a simple web page with some back-end scripts to shutdown and startup different mod-packs at will but still save the worlds in separate folders. Has anyone done anything similar? I know there is an API to upload and maintain mod-packs, but is there an API to get a list of available mod-packs (names, download locations, mod-pack icon/images, author, number of mods included, etc.)?