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Advice on Automating Multiple Checks for Updates #24668

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Pamoho:

What I’ve tried so far is to open links in my App one after the other and compare Buffer Lengths / Checksums etc. with stored values. A difference flags a change, right?

That depends on whether the thing you download is meant to only change if there is a new release. If you download the releases page for a GitHub repository, there are a lot of other things that might change.

Using the REST API to get the latest release should work much better, and you don’t even need the checksum: Releases - GitHub Docs

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