Fixed link to download last stable version
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Hi, Vivaldi does not provide a fixed link to download the last version without change the url, by example, actually in downloads the links points directly to actual version:
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable-2.4.1488.40-1.x86_64.rpm
but when the version changes, the link changes too, so the next version would behttps://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable-2.5.1488.40-1.x86_64.rpm
. The link is different by every change and can't be automated download.I am a Linux user (opensuse) and I have some robots to download the latest versions of several apps, so it downloads automatically the last version weekly, (and I create a Linux repository with that versions so all my clients machine synchronize with that repository automatically) so it will be useful to provide a link under
https://vivaldi.com/download/
with always the same link to get the latest version, maybe "get latest stable x64 rpm" linked tohttps://vivaldi.com/download/last-stable-x64.rpm
and that link send me the actualvivaldi-stable-2.4.1488.40-1.x86_64.rpm
. Got it?by example, dbeaver provides always this link
https://dbeaver.io/files/dbeaver-ce-latest-stable.x86_64.rpm
and it gets always the last version and the link never changes, today isdbeaver-ce-6.0.3-stable.x86_64.rpm
(go to the link and see the effect).Can you do it? I'ts simple to implement and very useful, thanks.
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@Gwen-Dragon I agree... the next version "is just an example" (a bad example)... may be I don't explain me good, mi intention is not have to need the version, it is possible to get the next version without be explicit in the link. Did you follow the dbeaver link? that link don't have a version, but always sendme the last.
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@Gwen-Dragon You got it! so my robot can get that link and always get the latest version. I do the same about 15 applications, and sure I don't want to go to 15 sites and click every one to see if the version change. I don't say replace the actual system to download it's perfect, just add a new one for nerds like me XD, greetings.
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@Gwen-Dragon consider that Linux users mostly uses the Vivaldi version provided from the Linux distribution repositories, so you can't know if I use Vivaldi or not, or the version I have, in fact, I use Vivaldi about 2 years, provided from opensuse repository (packman more precisely in version 2.1.1337.51 now), the last week was my first downloads from the site, so for Linux that statistic maybe are useless, perhaps for windows users are fine, because they don't have the Linux repository mechanism and they are forced to download from the site. Maybe the best mechanism for that is self Vivaldi sent usage statistics, that would be real.
I regret that you can not provide a better download mechanism just for keeping statistics. Is better to have a statistical datum than to provide a mechanism to automatically obtain the best version? maybe they could reconsider it.
Unfortunately if so, I do not want to manually download the application every time, I will return to synchronize with my repository by downgrading now to version to 2.1 (I will hate to loose picture in picture but Opera will save me for a while), at some point the repository will get the 2.4, maybe in some weeks, thanks anyway.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Fixed link to download last stable version:
You can write a script which scans the repo, create URL and fetch with curl, or use rsync to sync the complete Vivaldi RPM repo.
OMG.... jajaja.... why did not you tell me before that there was a repo? (why did not you ask that better you tell me...) that is the real solution ...
searching with google, the repo is https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/rpm/x86_64/ that is all I need, I will just add the repo and "thats all folks..."On the download page it could indicate that there is a repository, that would be good.
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