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Posted: **10 Apr 2009 15:12**

Hi, it will be great to add a fixed URI to last version to have always the same link to download the last version.

Now the update link (7z version) are:

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 9-win32.7z
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 9-win32.7z

and future version will have different URI (in accord to version number), while a fixed link (that could be a php page pointing to last version file, in example "http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... n32-7z.php") could maintain a static link.

Anyway I've just automated a procedure to check and download automatically new versions, it could be useful to other users and I post it here (I'm sure it can be optimized with pipes or in other ways...):

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cd {local path where you want to save the .7z file}
wget -d -S http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win32/
grep -G 7z..vlc index.html > index1.html
wget -B "http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win32/" -d -N -i index1.html -F
del index*

N.B.: The script above require 2 commands anyway: "wget" and "grep", freely available on this pages:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin ... -1-bin.zip
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin ... -1-dep.zip
http://fastbull.dl.sourceforge.net/sour ... .4-bin.zip
http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/source ... .4-dep.zip

Lorenzo Ciuciat

The VideoLAN Forums

Request new web URI resource to automate update on Windows

Request new web URI resource to automate update on Windows