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A comment on Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?.

Re:Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API? by psoots on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:07PM (#16691754)
I would like to see software producers provide an API to download the latest release and a list of previous releases. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to automate the installation of (primarily desktop) software (Slack, IntelliJ, etc.)
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Re:Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API? by RunningDroid on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:21PM (#16691880)
I think a Metalink* file would work for this as long as the software can figure out the versioning scheme in use.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink

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Re:Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API? by ivanfon on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:46PM (#16693847)
Linux package managers are a beautiful thing.
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