Re: I need help getting a web page with curl

ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 10/12/21 21:55, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> Well, the whole page is dynamically generated.  It's more accurate and >> meaningful to say that the commit message and commit ID (the revision) >> come from the API, which you can query with curl and jq. > > Oh ya. No fooling. The way OI am getting the revison of > the program is the worst way of doing it. > > And I have no choice: > > Spice Guest Tools Downloads are not versioned > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/spice-nsis/-/issues/6 These are both the same binary: https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-gues... https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-gues... So the number you are getting from scraping the commit message (the harder way) isn't even accurate as far as I can tell. It seems like you're asking for help solving the wrong problem (or, at least, a harder problem than necessary). And even when folks suggest better ways to solve that problem --using a proper API or calling git directly-- you're still doing it the more fragile way in the end. I'd be inclined to suggest taking a step back and try to describe the actual end goal and determine if the problem you're trying to solve is even the right one to solve. :) Whether that ends up being something relevant to this list or not, I don't know.