Project Zomboid - Generate WorkshopItems from Steam Workshop Collection

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Project Zomboid - Generate WorkshopItems from Steam Workshop Collection

This snippet will generate a list suited for the Project Zomboid config from a Steam Workshop Collection.

How to use:

1. Navigate to your collection (eg. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2871262277)
2. Copy the code in console.js
3. Open the devtools for your browser (F12)
4. Paste and run the code
5. Copy the output
6. Paste the config line into your config.

The output will look like this:

WorkshopItems=2625625421;2619072426;2423906082;2618213077;2522173579;2870394916;2846036306;2811383142;2805630347;2772575623;2642541073;2566953935;2516123638;2489148104;2441990998;2169435993;2478768005;2392709985;2490220997

console.js

var modIds = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[id^="sharedfile_"]')).map(mod => {
	return mod.id.replace('sharedfile_','');
})

console.log(`This list contains ${modIds.length} mods, copy it to your PZ config.`)
console.log(`WorkshopItems=${modIds.join(';')}`)

Looks like this code is popular. Thanks for all the additions guys and girls.

Might be time to make a real project out of it, but what would you recon that would be most useful?

I'm thinking if a nodejs module or a python script could be good here, it could do stuff automatically for the server configuration. Maybe a GUI is needed for some people, but what do you think?

I would love if this became an actual project. theres some minor bugs in it that ive found. With the code I uploaded it includes the collections ID in the list, I cant remember if it did that with your original upload. If you do decide to make this into a GUI and whatnot I'd love it if people who contributed to this would be credited.

I made something similar to this in python but because its python there are some serious limitations. I'm considering closing the repo and linking to this in the future if this does come into fruition.

i've created an improved version that extracts workshop ids and names:

const URLS = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[id^="sharedfile_"]')).map(mod => {
    return "https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=" + mod.id.replace('sharedfile_','');
})

const IDS = []
const NAMES = []

async function getIDS(URLS) {
    let index = 0
    for (url of URLS) {
        console.log(`processing #${index++}/${URLS.length}: ${url}`)
        const res = await fetch(url)
        const html = (await res.text()).replace(/<i>/g, "").replace(/<\/i>/g, "").replace(/<br>/g, " ").replace(/<b>/g, "").replace(/<\/b>/g, "")
        //console.log(html)
        const wks_ids = html.match(/Workshop ?ID: (\d*)/gmi) || html.match(/WID: (\d*)/gmi)
        const ids = wks_ids.map(wks => wks.split(": ")[1])
        IDS.push(...ids)
        console.log(ids)
        const wks_names = html.match(/Mod ?ID: (\d*\w*\d*\w*\d*\.*\d*)/gmi)  || html.match(/ ID: (\d*\w*\d*\w*\d*\.*\d*)/gmi)
        const names = wks_names.map(wks => wks.split(": ")[1])
        NAMES.push(...names)
        console.log(names)
    }
}

await getIDS(URLS)

console.log(`WorkshopItems=${IDS.join(";")}`)
console.log(`Mods=${NAMES.join(";")}`)

Awesome, thank you for posting this! The regex was useful 😁👍🙏

Here is a better snippet made using @contrid code with ChatGPT that is faster and also gives you a Numbered List of all the Mods with their Id's

const URLS = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[id^="sharedfile_"]')).map(mod => 
    "https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=" + mod.id.replace('sharedfile_', '')
);

async function getIDS(URLS) {
    return Promise.all(URLS.map(async (url, index) => {
        try {
            console.log(`processing #${index + 1}/${URLS.length}: ${url}`);
            const res = await fetch(url);
            const html = await res.text();
            
            const extractMatches = (pattern) => (html.match(new RegExp(pattern, "gmi")) || []).map(wks => wks.split(": ")[1]);
            
            const ids = extractMatches(/Workshop ?ID: (\d*)/);
            const names = extractMatches(/Mod ?ID: (\d*\w*\d*\w*\d*\.*\d*)/);

            return { ids, names };
        } catch (error) {
            console.error(`Error processing #${index + 1}: ${error.message}`);
            return { ids: [], names: [] };
        }
    }));
}

async function main() {
    const results = await getIDS(URLS);
    const modList = results.map(({ ids, names }, index) => `${index + 1}. WorkshopID:[${ids[0]}] ModIDs[${names.join(", ")}]`);
    const IDS = results.flatMap(({ ids }) => ids);
    const NAMES = results.flatMap(({ names }) => names);

    console.log(`WorkshopItems=${IDS.join(";")}`);
    console.log(`Mods=${NAMES.join(";")}`);
    console.log(`ModList=${modList.join(", ")}`);
}

main();

Made this site so that it's user friendly
https://www.pzutil.com/

Does not log unprocessed URLs yet but will add that shortly

Made this site so that it's user friendly https://www.pzutil.com/

Does not log unprocessed URLs yet but will add that shortly

Wonderful!

Thanks guys, I was looking at amp and trying to work out what i need to put in these sections:

The site is going to help with 2 and 3, the code further up, I think I can use to know what to put into 1.

Going to look at it all when more awake, but I just wanted to say you have turned a task I was dreading, and was making me wonder if i wanted to set up a server into something that should be quite simple. Your time on these projects is GREATLY appreciated! Thank you