Minecraft plugin Votifier

🔌 About Votifier

Votifier is a Bukkit-era Minecraft plugin that listens for vote notifications sent by server-list websites and delivers those notifications as events for other plugins to handle. It runs a lightweight listener on a configured port and uses an RSA keypair to secure incoming vote packets.

🎯 Purpose

Votifier's core purpose is to provide a stable, protocol-level bridge between external voting services and in-server reward or tracking plugins. Instead of implementing vote handling in each reward plugin, Votifier provides a common, encrypted notification channel that listener plugins subscribe to.

⚙️ Features

• Receives vote notifications from external server-list sites.
• Generates an RSA keypair on first run and requires the public key to be provided to vote sites for encryption (uses 2048-bit RSA as documented by legacy sources).
• Exposes a listener API/event system so reward plugins can react to votes.
• Designed as a minimal, open-source vote receiver (classic Votifier behavior).

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server owners who want a dedicated vote-receiving service for vote-to-reward workflows.
• Administrators using listener/reward plugins that integrate with the Votifier protocol.
• Developers writing plugins that need a standardized vote event source.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• A rewards plugin grants in-game items or commands when it receives a Votifier vote event for a player.
• A network forwards vote notifications to backend servers which then distribute rewards.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official Votifier .jar and place it into your server's plugins/ directory for a Bukkit-compatible server.
• Start or restart the server to generate keys and configuration files.
• Provide the generated public key and configured port to the server-list sites you use, then verify votes using your reward/listener plugin.

📦 Dependencies

• No runtime plugin dependencies are required for the core Votifier receiver itself; reward handling is expected to be performed by separate listener plugins.

🧠 Technical Notes

• Votifier is an older, open-source project historically used on Bukkit-based servers.
• A maintained fork named NuVotifier exists and documents broader platform support and added features such as vote forwarding and multi-platform builds; operators on modern networks often evaluate NuVotifier when needing proxy or multi-server setups.
• Votifier generates a per-server RSA keypair on first run; the public key must be registered with voting sites to accept encrypted vote packets.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need a simple, protocol-level receiver so external vote websites can notify your server and leave reward logic to listener plugins, Votifier provides that standardized, encrypted channel.