[New App Request] VLC Media Player

[AScott-WWF]

As VLC often publish a new version before updating their release notes or status downloads (Which EverGreen relies on) it often results in out of date information being served by EverGreen (example issue), I think it would be more reliable to use NeverGreen to scrape the VLC Download Page where the latest versions appear to be published earliest.

The script:

# Get-VLCMediaPlayer

$AppName = "VLC Media Player"

$Platforms = @(
    @{Architecture = 'x86'; Type = 'exe'; VerPattern = '"latestVersion":"(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'; FilePattern = 'vlc-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)-win32\.exe'}
    @{Architecture = 'x64'; Type = 'exe'; VerPattern = '"latestVersion":"(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'; FilePattern = 'vlc-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)-win64\.exe'}
    # N.B. MSI not currently available for v3.0.21
    @{Architecture = 'x86'; Type = 'msi'; VerPattern = '"latestVersion":"(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'; FilePattern = 'vlc-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)-win32\.msi'}
    @{Architecture = 'x64'; Type = 'msi'; VerPattern = '"latestVersion":"(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'; FilePattern = 'vlc-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)-win64\.msi'}
    @{Architecture = 'x86'; Type = 'zip'; VerPattern = '"latestVersion":"(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'; FilePattern = 'vlc-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)-win32\.zip'}
    @{Architecture = 'x64'; Type = 'zip'; VerPattern = '"latestVersion":"(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'; FilePattern = 'vlc-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)-win64\.zip'}
    #@{Architecture = 'ARM64'; Type = 'zip'; VerPattern = '"latestVersion":"(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'; FilePattern = 'vlc\d+\.\d+\.\d+_win64\.zip'}
)

foreach ($Platform in $Platforms) {

    $ReleaseURL = 'https://www.videolan.org/vlc/'
    $SearchCount = 1
    [version]$Version = (Get-Version -Uri $ReleaseURL -Pattern $Platform.VerPattern)

    do {
        if (($Platform.Type -eq "msi") -or ($Platform.Type -eq "zip")){
            if ($Platform.Architecture -eq "x86"){
                $Arch = "32"
            } else {
                $Arch = "64"
            }

            $BaseDownloadURL = "https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc"
            $DownloadURL = "$($BaseDownloadURL)/$($Version)"

            #Build the URL
            $URL = "$($DownloadURL)/win$($Arch)/vlc-$($Version)-win$($Arch).$($Platform.Type)"
            # Test the existence of download by sending a HEAD request to the URL
            try {
                $response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -Method Head -ErrorAction Stop

                # Check the status code of the response (If the file exists add to NevergreenApp list)
                if ($response.StatusCode -eq 200) {
                    New-NevergreenApp -Name $AppName -Version $Version -Uri $URL -Architecture $Platform.Architecture -Type $Platform.Type
                    break
                }
            } catch {
                Write-Verbose "File 'vlc-$($Version)-win$($Arch).$($Platform.Type)' does not exist at URL: $url"
            }

        } else {
            $URL = Get-Link -Uri $ReleaseURL -MatchProperty href -Pattern $Platform.FilePattern
            if ($URL) {
                $URL = "https:$($URL)" # Prepend "https:" infront of returned URL
                New-NevergreenApp -Name $AppName -Version $Version -Uri $URL -Architecture $Platform.Architecture -Type $Platform.Type
                break
            }
        }
        $SearchCount--
    } until ($SearchCount -eq 0)

    if ($SearchCount -eq 0) {
        Write-Warning "Could not find release for $($AppName) $Version ($($Platform.Architecture)) $($Platform.Type) type"
    }

}