How to download latest version of MK programatically

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@thl-cmk

there is a JSON blob in the source of the download URL, there you can “grep” all the data from you need. I use this in my CMK update check, so have a look if you like
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Very interesting, parsing with Python seems to make it easier than strictly with Ansible in this specific case.

@martin.hirschvogel

We are rebuilding the download page and plan to launch it this month. The JSON blob will be split into several ones as far as I know as the one just got too large now. The structure stays mostly the same I think, but instead of one super big JSON, we will have several smaller ones.
Thus, be aware as it will likely impact you.

Thanks for the heads up, I will wait a little bit in this case. If the JSONs could be in separate files rather than directly within the download page, it could almost be called like a REST API rather than having to parse the webpage for the JSONs.

Alternatively if the raw/free versions were in a different directory that is not password protected and allows listing, that would work as well.