From 44f2ae9e62053e9023bfd47c311b1de4a7890b61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sacha Ligthert <sacha@ligthert.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:00:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Working version. Using latest of everything.

---
 README.md  |  4 +++-
 fetcher.py | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100755 fetcher.py

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 64bf289..d2a38a6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 # minecraft_server_downloader
 
-Grab the latest minecraft server.jar binary (to hand off to other tools)
\ No newline at end of file
+Grab the latest minecraft server.jar binary.
+
+Uses Python3 and the Requests library.
diff --git a/fetcher.py b/fetcher.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..aad7850
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fetcher.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import requests
+
+# Fetch some manifests
+url="https://launchermeta.mojang.com/mc/game/version_manifest.json"
+stage1 = requests.get(url)
+latest = stage1.json()["latest"]["release"]
+
+print("Latest version of Minecraft (Release):",latest)
+
+# Iterate through the json, grab the manifest of the newest version
+for version in stage1.json()["versions"]:
+    if latest == version["id"]:
+        # print(version)
+        url = version["url"]
+
+# Grab it. Print.
+stage2 = requests.get(url)
+print("Downloading:",stage2.json()["downloads"]["server"]["url"])
+
+print("Grabbing server.jar")
+jarfile = requests.get(stage2.json()["downloads"]["server"]["url"])
+open("server.jar", "wb").write(jarfile.content)
+
+print("Done!")