Get maven package latest version

get-package-latest-version.py

import urllib.request
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

repository_url = "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/"
package_name = "org.junit.jupiter.junit-jupiter-api"

metadata_url = repository_url + package_name.replace('.', '/') + "/maven-metadata.xml"

# Send a GET request and retrieve the XML content
with urllib.request.urlopen(metadata_url) as response:
    xml_content = response.read()

# Parse the XML content using ElementTree
root = ET.fromstring(xml_content)

# Extract the latest version from the parsed XML
version_tags = root.findall("./versioning/versions/version")
latest_version = version_tags[-1].text  # The last version is considered the latest

# Print the latest version
print("Latest version of", package_name, "is", latest_version)