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SimpleHTMLUpdateChecker

This simple Python script can be used to check for updates by parsing HTML sources using regular expressions.

Usage

Modify the file updateList.txt. Some examples are included. This file is a semicolon delimited ASCII-file with four columns:

Column 1: Name of the Webseite/Software (used for displaying updates only)
Column 2: URL
Column 3: Regular expression, e.g. <h2>Current Version – (.*?)</h2> where (.*?) is the extracted value of the version information
Column 4: Currently installed version

Install all prerequisites and run the main file SimpleHTMLUpdateChecker.py in Python.

Prerequisites

Python packages:

os
shutil
requests
ssl
urllib
chardet
re
tkinter