🚀 Wabba Auto Downloader

Automate your Nexus mod downloads using a botted Google Chrome instance.

The development of this tool stops, when the Nexus Mods team adds crypto payment option, so that everyone is able to pay for the mods.

✨ Features

• 🦀 Blazingly fast 🔥🔥🔥
• 🌐 Cross Platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
• 🤖 Automated mod downloads from NexusMods
• 🎯 Support for wabbajack modlists
• 📦 Works on top of portable chrome
• 👻 Optional headless mode operation
• 📦 Single self contained binary (installer on windows)
• 🖥️ Optional TUI w RataTui
• 🔒 Hashsum support checking

Planned:

• ❤️ Loverslab support
• 🔄 Round Robin download queue
• 💦 Shadcn UI

🚀 Quick Start Guide

To grab the executable, go get the latest release for your platform.

1. Set Up Chrome Portable

1. Download Chrome Portable from PortableApps.com

   🔒 Is PortableApps safe? Check their Wikipedia page

2. Install to your preferred location (e.g., Downloads folder)

2. Initial Configuration

1. Launch the installed portable Chrome
2. Navigate to NexusMods
3. Log into your account
4. Close portable Chrome

3. Launch with Debugger

Open PowerShell and run:

# For interactive mode
Start-Process "C:\Users\[YourUsername]\Downloads\Chrome\GoogleChromePortable\GoogleChromePortable.exe" -ArgumentList "--remote-debugging-port=9222"

# For headless mode (optional)
Start-Process "C:\Users\[YourUsername]\Downloads\Chrome\GoogleChromePortable\GoogleChromePortable.exe" -ArgumentList "--remote-debugging-port=9222 --headless"

Adjust path to match your installation dir if needed.

Visit http://localhost:9222/json/version in the other browser to ensure chrome is working. If this page does not load, something went wrong with setting up google chrome.

4. Start Downloading

1. Launch Wabba Auto Downloader
2. Select your modlist
3. Begin the download process
4. Verify everything works as expected

5. Run Wabbajack

1. Launch wabbajack
2. Select downloaded modlist
3. Choose wabbajack downloads folder to match WabbaAuto downloads folder
4. Wait for wabbajack to complete downloading other files and installing

💡 Pro Tips

• Use headless mode for background operation
• Use Non-Headless mode for debugging why something does not work

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to:

• Open issues for bugs
• Submit feature requests
• Create pull requests

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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Made with ❤️ for the modding community