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