Hollywood forums

Here is a first screenshot of a program which displays a list of available Hollywood plugins and checks which version is installed.
If its not available if will be displayed in italic style, if there is a newer version available it will be display in red color.
Sorting is possible.

Todo: download a plugin, unpack it, and start the installer.

http://igracki.square7.ch/tmp/HollywoodUpdater.png

Nice, this looks like a useful addition! Does it parse the HTML of the Hollywood homepage or do you use your own database?

Yes, it parses the download page. So it will be always uptodate.

Cool. Like the Idea.

Here is a little YouTube video showing the current version
https://youtu.be/rEz31pLWGMg?si=vBDQWYsTPGD7KA74

Getting the file version should work for all Amiga systems, but opening the downloaded archive is MorphOS only for now, because I open a Ambient Lister with rxcmd.
If someone has the commands to open the archive in a lister on other systems, please send them to me!

bitRocky wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 7:28 pm Yes, it parses the download page. So it will be always uptodate.

Unless Cloudflare steps in and sends a HTML page verifying if you're a human or not

Well I wouldn't mind if there would be a PHP script I could call to get a json list of the plugins with the name, version, download url, a little description and the supported systems...

bitRocky wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 8:07 pm Well I wouldn't mind if there would be a PHP script I could call to get a json list of the plugins with the name, version, download url, a little description and the supported systems...

That still wouldn't solve the problem that Cloudflare could also kick in when you try to download the archives from my web page. The only safe solution would be a mirror on some unprotected site but Cloudflare probably won't interfere that much with IPs from countries that aren't notorious for lots of bots so it's probably not that likely that Cloudflare blocks connections of your tool...