• download-apprise.mjs
  • // Go to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apprise/ using fetch api, where it is a apache directory listing page
    // Use cheerio to parse the html and get the latest version of Apprise
    // call curl to download the latest version of Apprise
    // Target file: the latest version of Apprise, which the format is apprise_{VERSION}_all.deb
    
    import * as cheerio from "cheerio";
    import semver from "semver";
    import * as childProcess from "child_process";
    
    const baseURL = "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apprise/";
    const response = await fetch(baseURL);
    
    if (!response.ok) {
        throw new Error("Failed to fetch page of Apprise Debian repository.");
    }
    
    const html = await response.text();
    
    const $ = cheerio.load(html);
    
    // Get all the links in the page
    const linkElements = $("a");
    
    // Filter the links which match apprise_{VERSION}_all.deb
    const links = [];
    const pattern = /apprise_(.*?)_all.deb/;
    
    for (let i = 0; i < linkElements.length; i++) {
        const link = linkElements[i];
        if (link.attribs.href.match(pattern) && !link.attribs.href.includes("~")) {
            links.push({
                filename: link.attribs.href,
                version: link.attribs.href.match(pattern)[1],
            });
        }
    }
    
    console.log(links);
    
    // semver compare and download
    let latestLink = {
        filename: "",
        version: "0.0.0",
    };
    
    for (const link of links) {
        if (semver.gt(link.version, latestLink.version)) {
            latestLink = link;
        }
    }
    
    const downloadURL = baseURL + latestLink.filename;
    console.log(`Downloading ${downloadURL}...`);
    let result = childProcess.spawnSync("curl", [ downloadURL, "--output", "apprise.deb" ]);
    console.log(result.stdout?.toString());
    console.error(result.stderr?.toString());
    process.exit(result.status !== null ? result.status : 1);