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patlefort

09-03-2025 03:05 AM

URL or API to check for current version of patch files?

I would like to automate version checks and updates. Does Project 1999 provide a way to query the latest version?

loramin

09-03-2025 10:31 AM

There's no API, but there's https://www.project1999.com/ ... new patches are always posted as news items on the front page

patlefort

09-03-2025 10:50 AM

Thanks for the answer. Scraping a website for a link is far from ideal. I'll have to think of a solution. My suggestion for the website would be to simply have a file that can be downloaded that contain the version or filename of the latest release of the patch files. Just a file containing a string.

loramin

09-03-2025 11:14 AM

... or you could just wait until you try to login and it tells you to patch (like everyone else) :)

patlefort

09-03-2025 06:32 PM

But why? It would be trivial to implement. I'm trying to create a launcher for linux that make it as easy as possible but for that, I need to automate the update process. Part of that process is converting everything to lower case to make sure files are all correctly overwritten. And yes I've had issues with that which is why I'm doing this.

Tann	09-05-2025 09:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patlefort (Post 3759515)

Scraping a website for a link is far from ideal

maybe not ideal but it's super simple, here:

Code:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as ec

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By



options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)

options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-logging"])

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)



driver.get("https://www.project1999.com/")



try:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ec.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#collapseobj_module_16 > tr > td > a:nth-child(7)"))).click()

except Exception as e:

    print(f"you dun goofed: {e}")

loramin

09-05-2025 11:09 AM

You ChatGPTed that didn't you ;)

Tann	09-05-2025 11:11 AM

that? no, i use scrapers on the daily so i just Frankensteined some of my other code.

loramin

09-05-2025 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tann (Post 3759807)

that? no, i use scrapers on the daily so i just Frankensteined some of my other code.

Heh, sorry:

Quote:

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ec.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELEC TOR, "#collapseobj_module_16 > tr > td > a:nth-child(7)"))).click()

looked like a selector (and just code in general) an AI would write.

Tann	09-05-2025 11:27 AM

I wouldn't put it past my former self to have used chatgpt originally, the websites I frequent are often slow to respond so I had to include a lot of wait timers and try/catches so the code wouldn't crap itself.

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