software-updates-bot

🤖 A bot that looks for popular stuff updates, then push data into this repository as JSON, markdown report, and RSS/Atom feeds. Currently runs on a Raspberry Pi (every hour). See generated reports:

• JSON report
• Markdown report
• Markdown report (ordered by date)
• RSS feed
• Atom feed

This bot currently monitors updates for:

• 7+ Taskbar Tweaker
• Adoptium (previously AdoptOpenJDK): every LTS version
• Golang SDK
• GPG4Win
• Gradle
• Inkscape
• K-Lite Codec Pack Basic
• Les Cast Codeurs (a great French podcast)
• MariaDB
• Maven
• Nilesoft Shell (a powerful context menu manager for MS Windows File Explorer)
• NodeJS: LTS and current
• PostgreSQL
• Python 3
• Spring Boot
• ThrottleStop
• VeraCrypt
• Visual C++ Redistributable Runtimes All-in-One
• VLC

Update checkers code is here: source code. They are based on Jsoup scrapper, or simply by consumming JSON API.
Don't hesitate to submit new checkers.

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⚠️ deprecated, the task now runs on a GitHub workflow ⚠️

Scheduled tasks on my RaspberryPi (crontab -u pi -e, /etc/init.d/cron reload):

SHELL=/bin/bash
BASH_ENV="/home/pi/.bashrc"

# run software-updates-bot hourly
0 * * * * eval $(ssh-agent -s) && ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_************* && cd ~/projects/software-updates-bot/ && git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin && ./run.sh && pkill -f ssh-agent

# rotate software-updates-bot git log At 00:40 on Monday  https://crontab.guru/#40_0_*_*_1
40 0 * * 1 rm ~/projects/software-updates-bot/logs/git.log.gz && gzip ~/projects/software-updates-bot/logs/git.log && rm ~/projects/software-updates-bot/logs/git.log

Please note that this script is absolutely not optimized at all (especially the ssh part). It works, and I'm fine with that :-D