How to get the latest chrome versions from official Google Chrome PPA

chrome-versions.py

# (c) 2017 Alpeware LLC
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# curl -s https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/other.xml.gz | gzip -df \
#| awk -F\" '/pkgid/{ sub(".*-","",$4); print $4": "$10 }'
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# here's how to get the latest chrome versions in py
#
# result should be:
# versions.keys()
# ['google-chrome-stable', 'google-chrome-beta', 'google-chrome-unstable']

import httplib2
import zlib
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

h = httplib2.Http()
(resp, content) = h.request("https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/other.xml.gz")
xml = zlib.decompress(content, 16+zlib.MAX_WBITS)
tree = ET.fromstring(xml)

versions = {}
for e in tree:
  for i in e.getchildren():
    versions[e.attrib['name']] = i.attrib['ver']