How to programmatically get list of mods contained in pack?

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gunnarniels

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Hello, I'm trying to determine how to programmatically get a list of the mods contained in a given FTB pack. For example, I unzipped FTBAcademy, and I see a manifest.json file containing a list of project/file IDs, that I assume are curseforge project IDs.

Is it possible to query *something* with these IDs to get more metadata about a particular mod? Alternatively, is there something else contained in the zip that would indicate what mods are inside?

Separately, a lot of the packs are versioned with what looks like a matching minecraft version, ex: 1.12.2. We're on 1.14.4 currently, and it looks like almost none of the packs aside from the bleeding edge pack are compatible with latest. Does this mean if you want to run a pack, you'll need to run a server and a client that matches the pack's version exactly?
 

SevenMass

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This is not a direct answer to your question but, but...

If the modpack is published on curse, you can find out what mods are in a pack by going to the download page of the modpacks zip* file of a specific version and scrolling down to where it says "Related Projects."

In the case of FTBAcademy for version 1.1.0-1 that would be this page. Just scroll down and there is your list of mods.