Released: appimage-updater

[royw]

Howdy!

I like AppImages! Thank you to all who have created this wonderful capability!

Several projects that I use regularly publish in AppImage format, but don't support the AppImage update feature. So I found myself having to periodically go to their repositories to see if they have a new release, and if so download it, verify the signature, move it to my local location, and usually replace a symbolic link to it (makes it easier to integrate with my desktop).

Well, I got tired of this maintenance so wrote, with the help of the windsurf AI, appimage-updater to handle all the grunt work. I just published it on PyPI at: https://pypi.org/project/appimage-updater/

My daily workflow is to update my OS (apt update; apt upgrade) then update my AppImage apps with: appimage-updater check

Simple. I stay current with nightly, weekly, or whenever releases.

I have appimage-updater working with almost all of the AppImages (LM-Studio being the exception) that I use. These include github, github API compatible (ex: codeberg), gitlab, sourceforge, and normal website hosted. I would be interested in any other repository types that appimage-updater does not support. Just FYI, LM-Studio hides its releases behind a javascript interface, not nice.

I hope y'all find appimage-updater as useful as I do.

Thank you,
Roy

[probonopd]

HI Roy. Can it be made to only update applications for which the user specifically requests an update? The least thing I'd like on my machine is a "moving target" with everything being updated all the time without any concrete reason.

[royw]

It's already there.

appimage-updater check NAME

where NAME is one or more app names or globs.

examples:

appimage-updater check --no # see what all has updates
appimage-updater check UltiMaker-Cura --yes # update just UltiMaker-Cura
appimage-updater check "FreeCAD*" # check all the FreeCAD apps (FreeCAD, FreeCAD_rc, FreeCAD_weekly)

HTH,
Roy

[probonopd]

Thank you very much. Added to
https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/awesome-appimage/blob/main/README.md#updaters