(python3 script)

fetch.py

from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.parse import urlencode
import json

# get a client_id and client_secret from Github -> Settings -> Developer -> Register New Oauth
# then use those and the below curl command to get an access_token
# curl -X POST https://api.github.com/authorizations --data '{"note": "Updater", "client_id": "XXX", "client_secret": "XXX"}' -u USERNAME --header "X-GitHub-OTP: 2FACODE"
ACCESS_TOKEN = "XXXX"

REPO = "https://switchbru.com/appstore/"

def github_check(url, repo_version, name):
    authenticated_url = "%s?access_token=%s" % (url, ACCESS_TOKEN)
    try:
        response = urlopen(authenticated_url).read()
    except Exception as e:
        print("ISSUE: fetching %s (%s)" % (url, e))
        return False

    releases = json.loads(response)

    last_release = None
    last_published = None

    if len(releases) == 0:
        # no releases made
        return False

    for release in releases:
        current_published = release["published_at"]
        if not last_published or current_published > last_published:
            # current relesae's publish date is more recent
            last_release = release
            last_published = current_published

    # get the version, strip, and compare to our cache from the repo
    github_version = last_release["tag_name"].lower().strip("v")
    github_version = github_version.split(" ")[0].replace(name.lower(), "").replace("switch", "").strip("-")

    if github_version != repo_version.split(" ")[0].lower():
        # version mismatch, something may be out of date
        return github_version

    # version matched
    return False

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # get info about the version of every package from the repo
    response = urlopen("%srepo.json" % REPO)
    contents = response.read().decode("utf-8")
    packages = json.loads(contents)["packages"]

    for package in packages:
        if "version" in package and "url" in package and "name" in package:
            repo_version = package["version"].lower().strip("v")

            # get the url, if it's a github link, convert it to an api link
            url = package["url"]
            if "github.com" in url and not "gist" in url:
                components = url.split("/")
                username = components[3]
                project = components[4]

                api_url = "https://api.github.com/repos/%s/%s/releases" % (username, project)

                name = package["name"]
                result = github_check(api_url, repo_version, name)

                if result:
                    print("[%s] may be out of date (ours is %s, github's is %s)" % (name, repo_version, result))


    # fetch("https://api.github.com/repos/vgmoose/spacenx/releases")
    # fetch("https://api.github.com/user")