Sadly there are many things that make finding the plugins/mods (jar) ids harder:

- Authors do not provide the id inside the jar, which they can do btw.
- Authors provide author and plugin names in the jar that are different on the spigot post. In this case Autoplug even checks for similarity.
- Authors do not provide direct download links but forward to other html websites. In this case Autoplug provides alternative updating methods like Github/Jenkins.

Autoplugs database contains frequently used ids and metadata that you can find at the bottom of https://autoplug.one/stats and if you have a premium account that data is fetched and set in your plugin.yml file automatically.

It usually is a simple install, so plug-and-play.
It may be a bit more complicated on some restrictive hosts, but normally its just using the installer page, unpacking it into your server folder and running the start script.

If you have a restrictive host join the discord and search the help thread since there may have been people with the same issue, that got help for that particular host already.

Created a new video just for you: https://youtu.be/Vu9KRMb42HQ

The only thing that didn't work for you was the automatic start on boot feature. Everything else worked fine, meaning you can manually set AutoPlug to start on boot, see guides for windows here: https://superuser.com/questions/954950/run-a-script-on-start-up-on-windows-10 and linux here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12973777/how-to-run-a-shell-script-at-startup

.stop both or the short variant .stb is what you are looking for. Shown and explained in the .help command btw.

After pressing the "Generate Files" button on the autoplug webpage you get detailed installation instructions.
If there are still open questions you can watch this tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-PdBAd5O0 or join our discord group: https://discord.gg/GGNmtCC

AutoPlug is not a plugin but a server wrapper.
U probably missed the big blue "Generate Files" files button somehow, after getting redirected to autoplug/installer.

All of its features are available offline, so even when autoplug.one is down it won't affect the features you can use. The web service is entirely optional and a way for me to get paid, so If you want to have the web features running on your local pc/server that's not going to happen. Here is the full discussion: https://github.com/Osiris-Team/AutoPlug-Client/issues/40

Take a look at the /autoplug/plugins-config.yml

Yeah, I'm not proud of that stuff either sometimes, but try to look at it from my point of view. You are working on a project daily for over a year now, fix bugs every day, add new features, try to optimize your product so that it fits almost everyone, and then a random 9yo kid walks by, clicks on download, and puts AutoPlug in the plugins directory without even bothering to read the first few sentences of the installation guide... And then writes a review where he says that AutoPlug doesn't work. Or even better they say I'm doing this, only to make some quick bucks and AutoPlug isn't free at all. OR they tell you, that your program is prone to remote code execution without even installing AutoPlug.
Sry but I don't have the nerves to stay calm and respond nicely to such stuff.

Thank you!
I almost lost hope in humanity.

Next time maybe actually use AutoPlug before writing a review, because then you'd realize that remote code execution is disabled by default.

Since you didn't even take a minute of your time to look into AutoPlug, I'm not going to do that either for this review and send you this pre-written text.
Pathetic.

That's odd. In v2.0 you can use all of AutoPlugs features without registering, but if you want to give it another try, I'm almost constantly online on Discord
and can help you with it.

Discord group: https://discord.gg/GGNmtCC
Pm: Osiris#9736

Thanks!

AutoPlug is free. Next time read the installation steps properly before talking shit. Thank you.

Plugin update installation must be done while the server is offline, to ensure nothing goes wrong, that's why I can't make AutoPlug a regular plugin. You can use AutoPlug together with AMP though, there shouldn't be an issue with that.

Snpmc's review is already over half a year old and since then a lot has changed. I even can say that ALL security concerns mentioned by him have been fixed since v.0.9.
Below you find snpmc's statements, followed by the current facts.

"- Send your entire plugin list, without encryption, over the internet to the author’s server. This intent is not clearly stated in the description and it should be."
-> FALSE: AutoPlug uses SSL Sockets for every type of communication to the Webserver.

"- Download, install, and execute any code on your computer or server, from anywhere on the internet, as instructed by the author’s server, without any method of authenticating it."
-> FALSE: AutoPlug-Web never connects to your server, YOUR server connects via the AutoPlug-Client (open-source code/protocol) to OUR Web server. The protocol is open source and can be viewed by anyone on GitHub.

"As you are also providing your email and name for registration, you are placing an enormous amount of trust in the author. Allowing software to do risky tasks like this is not inherently bad, however such software must be designed for this. In my opinion it is immediately clear after brief review that no attempt was made to design this software to be safe for end-users to use. Some things I noticed during a brief review:"
- > NOTE: This review was already made some time ago and yes at the beginning the only aim was making AUTOPLUG WORK. But now AutoPlugs operates in the fastest and safest way possible and I'm really proud of how it is doing.

"- A hardcoded IP address is used, which prevents the author from changing the address that the software sends your data and receives instructions from if the server itself is breached, or if the IP address lease expires. There is no way for the user or author to fix this except manually updating the plugin, and no way to be alerted if this occurs."
-> TRUE: Hardcoded IP is indeed used, but I don't really see a security concern here.

"- No authentication or encryption is used for communication to the author’s server over the Internet. This allows the anybody obtaining access to the server or control of the IP address (instead of just the author) to read your information, or install any software on your machine."
-> FALSE: SSL Sockets are in use since v.0.9.

"- The daemon (“Client”) exposes it’s control port (35555) without an address binding, which allows any person with an Internet connection, and any other plugin, to send control messages and plugin lists to the daemon."
-> FALSE: AutoPlug does expose NOTHING. As already said YOUR server connects to OUR web-server which is WAITING for YOUR server to connect on OUR 35555 port.

"- Plugin to daemon communication is unauthenticated. This means that any plugin or service on the local machine or Internet can send plugin information to the Client, and any service listening on localhost:35556 can receive a list of plugins. At minimum, this communication should be authenticated. For example, the Client should pass a one-time key via process argument to the Server to authenticate requests."
-> FALSE: AutoPlug-Plugin has been removed in v.0.9.

"- No effort is made to verify the file that is downloaded. The software will download anything, with any size, and an `application/octet-stream` type and assume it is a JAR file. At an absolute minimum, the JAR file header size field, size reported by Spiget, and file download size should be compared as a rudimentary integrity check."
-> FALSE: Plugin downloads have severely improved since v.0.9.

Thanks for your review. Yes you are right AutoPlugs first installation is quite time demanding, but in comparison to the time you save by the automation provided by AutoPlug I think it's worth it.

Just released v0.9! Give it a try.

Just released v0.9! Give it a try.

Thanks for the review. We are upgrading our security standards in the next update. Sadly due to dependency issues, it will be delayed.

If you got crashes at least try to solve it first. There are multiple ways you can contact us. For example via discord, spigot, github or even e-mail. But don't leave a bad review without even giving us a chance to help you.

Haha, thanks <3 It's great to have some positive feedback now and then.

Great, constructive review thank you a lot for taking so much time reviewing AutoPlug, that means us a lot ;)
We agree with you in all aspects, though some might be a bit exaggerated. Most of the issues you mentioned are already in our todo list and we invite all java fans to help us out, by contributing to the code: https://github.com/Osiris-Team/AutoPlug-Client

Have a nice day and stay healthy!

First of all thank you for sharing your thoughts! You’re right in all what you’ve mentioned. The code for our autoplug client and autoplug plugin is available on github and we encourage you to check it for any malicious operations (though there aren’t any, its good to be careful these days). There are 2 resons why we didn’t want our users to have their own webserver. A webinterface like ours with that amount of data would slow down your server too much
and secondly the algorithm we use to search the plugins is the most precious part of this project and we want to keep that work for ourselves.
To refer to your first argument. Yes this plugin can do risky operations, like read/delete and moving files, but you have to enable them by yourself in the configs. Also the code for downloading the files is build in the plugin. Our server just passes over the download url as string and the whole download process is done by yourself. The download link is always shown in console and you can easily check for its authenticity.

To refer to your second argument. The only reason there is no backup function is lack of time. As you maybe noticed this is the first release and we focused on making the core-fuctions work, but a full server-backup system will also be included in a future release and be surely one of our main features/aims. Also you will be able to disable the auto-check feature for certain plugins in future (plugins, that may break if you update them).

Thank you again for your feedback. As already said, this is only the first version of a plugin with a lot of potential.
We hope to see more of this kind of comments! Have a nice day :)

Thank you for this nice review <3