Latest Beta version update script

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Hi everyone,
I am trying to automate the updating process so that rclone is always on the latest Beta version.
Any simple way of doing this?
I thought of writing a script but I couldn’t figure out how to always point to the newest created directory.
Is there a shortcut like beta.rclone.com/latest that would point directly to it?
Like it is for the stable releases: http://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip

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There isn’t at the moment no…

You’d have to list the directory and sort it at the moment.

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Here’s what I use. It’s quick and dirty and bound to break. But it works for the time being…

VERSION=$(curl http://beta.rclone.org | grep -o '<td><a href=".*\/"' | tail -n1 | cut -c 14-30)
curl -O http://beta.rclone.org/$VERSION/rclone-$VERSION%CE%B2-linux-amd64.zip
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“bound to break” – unfortunately that statement is now true. $VERSION is now: v1.35/"

Which clearly doesn’t work.

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There is an open feature request for this and @ncw has said for the next release this will be possible

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Until then, here is my current update script.

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Your script will work only when there is max 99 beta versions and since current beta is already 114 the script is not functioning.

eg
curl -s http://beta.rclone.org | grep -P -o 'v\d+\.\d+-\d+-[a-z0-9]{8}' | tail -n1 will return xxx.99

c8d000d034.png144×987 31.7 KB

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almost posted my own thread about this till i saw this thread…
man a url like this would be sweet! http://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-beta-linux-amd64.zip

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Good catch @Ajki. I hadn’t been paying attention and didn’t notice it was not pulling three digit builds. I updated the gist to properly sort. No promises it won’t break again though. :slight_smile:

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I have wrote a version for powershell that works with windows.
I will release once i polish. ontop of that there is a bug right now with the amd64 download of the latest beta. It is missnamed within thin .zip
the rclone executable doesnt have .exe on the end. which i could fix but i am sure it was just an oversight and the next ones will be fine.

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Ok here is my powershell to download and extract the latest beta to a give location. I added two variables. The first one has to be a path that you have write access to. The second one is a boolean that will only move the exe file if set to true. It should detect 32 bit vs 64 bit and at least verify the path exists. Otherwise i havent done much error catching.


The only problem is currently the win64 builds are miss named within the .zip which i assume will be fixed so i programmed this with that assumption.

Let me know what you think.

EDIT
Quick update.
I actually coded a fix for the broken zip file by just renaming the file and put in the --version output at the end of the script just so you have visual confirmation that it updated.

EDIT2
Made a different script that removes the parsing since NCW added the file called rclone-beta-latest-

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Looks like NCW has added a letest beta zip.
http://beta.rclone.org/rclone-beta-latest-windows-amd64.zip
for example

Thanks NCW!

EDIT
Updated my script posted above.

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I did indeed! I also put a git-log.txt in the archive which gives some idea what has changed.

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Aaaawwesome!!! Thank you so much. This will make it so much easier to auto update my rclone copies :slight_smile: