[Feature Request] Adding PPSSPP

[privateemu]

This may be difficult to do, not sure Obtanium is capable yet it seems flexible for custom scripts off GitHub, but it would be wonderful if this script could add the ability to autoupdate PPSSPP's buildbot builds. They're hosted on ppsspp's website, not GitHub, so it will be more difficult.

[privateemu]

There's some discussion on the Obtanium main repo on this: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/issues/629

[privateemu]

The PPSSPP main build has been added to the Obtainum list of apps (https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/?categories=emulator):

{"id":"org.ppsspp.ppsspp","url":"https://www.ppsspp.org/download/","author":"PPSSPP","name":"PPSSPP","additionalSettings":"{\"about\":\"PPSSPP is an open source, fast and portable PSP emulator\",\"appName\":\"PPSSPP\",\"customLinkFilterRegex\":\"\\\\/[0-9]+(?:_[0-9]+){1,2}\\\\/ppsspp\\\\.apk$\",\"filterByLinkText\":false,\"matchGroupToUse\":\"$1$3.$2$4$6$5\",\"reverseSort\":false,\"skipSort\":false,\"sortByLastLinkSegment\":false,\"trackOnly\":false,\"useVersionCodeAsOSVersion\":false,\"versionDetection\":true,\"versionExtractWholePage\":false,\"versionExtractionRegEx\":\"\\\\/(?:(?:([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)\\\\/ppsspp\\\\.)|(?:([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)\\\\/ppsspp(\\\\.)))apk$\"}","overrideSource":"HTML"}

I'm trying to modify it to detect the dev builds

[RJNY]

Thanks for your suggestion and patience.

So I did a 15 minute investigation on this and mostly thanks to all the resource you shared, I was able to come up with a solution I think might work.

So if I curl their development page, the page is not generated by the backend, so it doesn't give us anything useful to regex. That would suggest that the page is generated by the front-end. With that in mind, I took a look at the dev tools network tab and this link popped out to me: https://builds.ppsspp.org/meta/history-20.json

This is just a theory, but I think we can do the following:

• use this as the preliminary link: https://builds.ppsspp.org/meta/history-20.json
• Set the latest_version = response[0].description
• use the latest_version to populate the download link like so: https://builds.ppsspp.org/builds/${latest_version}/ppsspp.apk
• profit: https://builds.ppsspp.org/builds/v1.17.1-817-g13506d3d02/ppsspp.apk

I would have to still apply this logic to an obtainium script, but what are your thoughts?

[RJNY]

Actually, I don’t see a good way to grab and set variables from preliminary links. If that’s not supported, this method can’t work either.

[RJNY]

I've added PPSSPP in the latest release (v3.1.0) Let me know if that satisfies this feature request