(short)Guide: bleepingcomputer.com

[Novae7]

I wanted to download AdwCleaner from Bleepingcomputer... but the download in the online Database didnt work (session id in the download link -.-")

 

so i tried to resolve it by myself...

This Solution should work for every Link on bleepingcomputer.com

 

First we have the link to the software

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

and the download link

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/dl/125/

 

because there is a session link in the download we can't use the direkt link :-(

 

so i juggle around with google and this forum

https://ketarin.org/forum/topic/3506-download-variable/ here where a very good RegEx postet (Regex: [^ "'<>\*]+\.exe)

i used that in a shorted form

 

so this one generates a valid download link for adwcleaner

 

next one is the Version

for that is used the "Content from URL" stuff

Just use the link to the software and after load the source mark <span itemprop="softwareVersion"> as start and </span> as end.

 

so we got the versionnumber between them

 

The last steps are using {url} as Download surce and version as indicator for changes

(can't add screenshots for that ^^ "You have exceeded your allotted disk space for attachments" but that point should be clear)

Thats it.

name your package, Ok, finished ^^

 

Any Suggestions? Improvements?

(Sry i'm not a native english speaker ^^)

[shawn]

Welcome aboard @Novae7 - great to have you here. Thank you for your contribution.

With Bleeping Computer not every download has a version number, so I use the date ("{yyyy}.{MM}.{dd}") for the ones that don't, like FRST.

I usually parse for the redirect, too. On the /dl/# page I use this regex pattern:

"\d+;\s*url=([^"]+)"

That captures the redirect from the download page so you can get the actual file URL.

 

Finally, because Bleeping Computer uses these session/temporary download URLs, I then upload the file to one of my servers using a static URL so I can automate downloading it on client devices. I use curl & ftp for that with the following syntax in the "execute after downloading" command:

curl --ssl-reqd -T "{file}" ftp://user:pass@server:port/path/