Improved search functionality when searching on CurseForge

[HAMM3REXTREME]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It cannot find CurseForge only mods very easily. I pretty much always have to configure the mod manually.

Describe the solution you'd like

It should search on other sites like FiberMC for fabric etc which can provide the CurseForge link to the mod.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I just manually configure new mods that are only on CurseForge.

Possible solution (from @Senth)

Make the installation interactive if no mod is found so that the user can select the mod from the search result

[Senth]

Thanks for reporting 🙂There's is a bit of an issue both with how CurseForge implemented their search function, but also how minecraft-mod-manager searches. I think this is partly related to #56

Do you have any example commands you used to install or update where you had to configure the mod manually? Preferably the full command you ran to install the mod and it wasn't found, or just the mod name if you installed it manually and then ran a mmm update

[Senth]

This should not only work for fabric mods but also for forge mods. Do we need to implement some sort of index site ourselves for this to work correctly with all mods?

[Senth]

Going to move this into v1.4 UX improvements and change the topic of this.

v1.3 will hopefully fix some issues automatically but in v1.4 I'm thinking of making the installation interactive. So if a mod isn't found a few options could be displayed to show a list of possible mods you wanted to download 🙂