Automatic download/update of diyabc/abcranger latest release

[gdurif]

Write a script to automatically download latest release of diyabc and abcranger

[gdurif]

Two needs (but more or less same implementation):

• download latest release at package installation
• download latest release before standalone app build

[fradav]

Needs curl and jq.
Suppose you want the latest release of diyabc binary for windows (not drafted or prerelease)

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/diyabc/diyabc/releases | \
  jq -r '[[.[] |
    select(.draft != true) |
    select(.prerelease != true)][0] |
    .assets |
    .[] |
    select(.name | startswith("diyabc-windows")) |
    .browser_download_url][0]' | xargs curl -LO

[fradav]

If you want to do in R, the most obvious way is to get the https://api.github.com/repos/diyabc/diyabc/releases content in JSON and parse it for the binary link

[gdurif]

Done in diyabcGUI with dl_latest_bin and dl_all_latest_bin functions

Also check script update_bin_release.R