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Automatically update ungoogled-chromium on Debian
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
import json | |
import re | |
import shutil | |
import subprocess | |
import tempfile | |
import urllib.request | |
USER_AGENT = "Ungoogled-Chromium-Debian-Update/1.0" | |
GITHUB_RELEASES_API = "https://api.github.com/repos/berkley4/ungoogled-chromium-debian/releases?per_page=10" | |
RELEASE_NAME_REGEX = re.compile("Unstable ([0-9\\.]+).*") | |
ASSET_NAME_REGEX = re.compile("ungoogled-chromium_.*_amd64\\.deb") | |
VERSION_OUTPUT_REGEX = re.compile("Chromium ([0-9\\.]+).*") | |
def request_json(url): | |
headers = { "User-Agent": USER_AGENT, "Accept": "application/json" } | |
request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers) | |
with urllib.request.urlopen(request) as json_result: | |
return json.load(json_result) | |
def open_download(url): | |
headers = { "User-Agent": USER_AGENT } | |
request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers) | |
return urllib.request.urlopen(request) | |
def get_release_from_api(): | |
releases = request_json(GITHUB_RELEASES_API) | |
for release in releases: | |
release_name_match = RELEASE_NAME_REGEX.match(release["name"]) | |
if release_name_match: | |
release_version = release_name_match.group(1) | |
release_assets = release["assets"] | |
for asset in release_assets: | |
if ASSET_NAME_REGEX.match(asset["name"]): | |
return (release_version, asset["browser_download_url"]) | |
return None | |
def get_version_from_system(): | |
version_output = subprocess.run(["chromium", "--version"], capture_output=True, check=True, encoding="utf-8") | |
version_match = VERSION_OUTPUT_REGEX.match(version_output.stdout) | |
return version_match.group(1) if version_match else None | |
api_release = get_release_from_api() | |
system_version = get_version_from_system() | |
if api_release: | |
(api_version, download_url) = api_release | |
if api_version == system_version: | |
print("Ungoogled Chromium appears to be up to date") | |
else: | |
print("Updated version available: {}".format(api_version)) | |
with open_download(download_url) as download_file, \ | |
tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".deb") as temp_file: | |
shutil.copyfileobj(download_file, temp_file) | |
subprocess.run(["sudo", "apt-get", "install", "-y", temp_file.name], check=True) | |
else: | |
print("Could not get version from release feed") |
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