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Unofficial Hombrew Cask for Audacity 2.3.3 (recent 64-bit version). Get around Fosshub's limitations
# Unofficial Hombrew Cask for Audacity 2.3.3 (recent 64-bit version)
# Made entirely for fun and to demonstrate how to get around fosshub's limitations.
# Problem: Audacity's binary is hosted on fosshub and they don't provide a fixed url! The seems to intentionally try to prevent "hot-linking".
# Solution: Make a request to fosshub's special XHR endpoint to get the signed download url. Then just pass that URL to Homebrew
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'
cask 'audacity' do
version '2.3.3'
sha256 '43db4d502086257ca377326f9621a343149faac6d3334424b20a3b5caceadda8'
# Current official URL as proposed on http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/
# must be parsed to extract temporary url embedded in iframe
def get_audacity_url
fosshub_response = nil
uri = URI("https://api.fosshub.com/download/")
Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, 'Content-Type' => 'application/json', 'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.70 Safari/537.36')
request.body = {
"fileName" => "audacity-macos-2.3.3.dmg",
"projectId" => "5b7eee97e8058c20a7bbfcf4",
"projectUri" => "Audacity.html",
"releaseId" => "5dd7e00e1d5d8e08348e2444",
"source" => "CF"
}.to_json
response = http.request request # Net::HTTPResponse object
fosshub_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
end
return fosshub_response['data']['url']
end
url get_audacity_url
name 'Audacity'
homepage 'http://audacityteam.org'
app 'Audacity.app'
zap delete: '~/Library/Application Support/audacity'
end
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realies commented May 12, 2020

could this not be added to brew cask?

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hacfi commented May 12, 2020

Fosshub isn’t very keen on direct downloads so they decided to not include it in brew cask anymore. See Homebrew/homebrew-cask#12972

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realies commented May 12, 2020

why should the brew cask repository care about limitations fosshub has?

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hacfi commented May 12, 2020

See the comment from @vitorgalvao here: Homebrew/homebrew-cask#27517
That’s their reason.

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