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Screen in the app to show and download APKs from github releases. #1520

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krtkush opened this issue Jul 2, 2018 · 32 comments
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Screen in the app to show and download APKs from github releases. #1520

krtkush opened this issue Jul 2, 2018 · 32 comments

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krtkush commented Jul 2, 2018 •
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Feature request/ idea

Currently, F-Droid takes too long to update its repo with the latest version of the app. Also, there must be users who don't have/ want F-Droid installed but still want to track the latest version of NewPipe.

For these users and to counter the slowness of F-Droid APK updates, I suggest that we have an inbuilt system in the app which shows and notifies the availability of the latest APKs. We can use the Releases API to get the latest info from github itself.

I'm willing to take up this task if the general idea is approved.
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Yum I'm at your side here :)

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krtkush commented Jul 3, 2018

Great! I'll start working on it, then.

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TobiGr commented Jul 3, 2018

I am not sure which information you want to get, but you can use the api we created for the website to get the current version: TeamNewPipe/web-api
You can fetch the data from https://newpipe.schabi.org/api/data.json

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krtkush commented Jul 3, 2018 •
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@TobiGr The API you mentioned does not provide link to download the release APK.

My idea is to provide a functionality to notify the user about a new APK availability and then let the user download it from within the NewPipe app. I, personally, would like this way of updating the app because I find that F-Froid is not quick enough to make the latest APK available for download.

https://api.github.com/repos/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases gives the assets_url for every release; which further provides browser_download_url. This url can be used to download the APK of that release.

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TobiGr commented Jul 3, 2018

It's no problem to include it into the web-api. We'd only need to make a difference between F-Droid and GitHub releases. @TheAssassin What do you think about this?

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krtkush commented Jul 3, 2018

It's no problem to include it into the web-api.

That sounds good.

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@TobiGr this should be doable, although I'm a bit worried about the GitHub rate limit. I think we should use some cheap web scraping to get the information we need.

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TobiGr commented Jul 3, 2018

The rate limit is at 60 requests per hour for non authorized applications. As long as we keep the cache this won't be a problem.

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This is not the only application I run that uses the GitHub API, @TobiGr...

TobiGr added a commit to TobiGr/web-api that referenced this issue Jul 4, 2018
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Add apk url for latest GitHub release as "github_apk"
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This provides the data for TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#1520
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theScrabi commented Jul 4, 2018 •
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This is not the only application I run that uses the GitHub API, @TobiGr...

... NewPipe is a scraper ... so maybe, just maybe we could scrape that value as well 🙈

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TobiGr commented Jul 4, 2018

@theScrabi. Jup. I just opened a PR which does the scrapping.

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It's "scraping", not "scrapping"...

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TobiGr commented Jul 4, 2018

@krtkush I've updated the API and the changes should be online soon. Tell me when you need additional information which could be provided by the API.

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Deployment just finished in this

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@krtkush closing for now, feel free to reopen if you need more assistance.

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@krtkush Are you working on this ?

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krtkush commented Jul 18, 2018

Yes. Should have a working prototype by end of next weekend.

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Cool. Great to know that.

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krtkush commented Aug 11, 2018

@TheAssassin In the data api will it possible to get the version_code under the github too? Like we already get under F-droid?

Comparing version code makes more sense than comparing version names.

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krtkush commented Aug 11, 2018

@TheAssassin The API seems to be down.

Getting <html><title>500: OK</title><body>500: OK</body></html> as output.

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Works fine on my end. https://newpipe.schabi.org/api/data.json?json

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krtkush commented Aug 11, 2018

Yep! It's up now.

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TobiGr commented Aug 11, 2018

In the data api will it possible to get the version_code under the github too? Like we already get under F-droid?

Yep. That's possible. I can take a look on this next Friday (just in case you don't want to do it, @TheAssassin)

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TobiGr commented Aug 14, 2018

@krtkush I just merged my changes to display the version code. We just need to wait until the new version will be deployed.

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krtkush commented Aug 14, 2018

@TobiGr Thank you! How soon will that be?

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F-droid works with repositories much like linux, can't you make a one that you can update with more frequency

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krtkush commented Aug 15, 2018 •
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@TobiGr All the values are -1 under the github object.

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TobiGr commented Aug 15, 2018

That's strange. It worked for me locally.

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TobiGr commented Aug 15, 2018

GitHub just renamed some CSS classes 🙄

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@TobiGr patch has been deployed as well.

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TobiGr commented Aug 15, 2018

@TheAssassin Thanks

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krtkush commented Aug 16, 2018

Thanks, guys.

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