MJ PDF repo not working

[berserkwarwolf]

https://gitlab.com/mudlej_android/mj_pdf_reader

It has a direct link to the APK in the releases section, packages. What is happening?

[ImranR98]

The GitLab releases page cannot be scraped using the existing solution used in Obtainium, because the release info is dynamically loaded in with JavaScript. So the only way to currently get this info is through the tags RSS feed. Unfortunately it looks like this feed doesn't always contain a link to the release APK like I thought it did - it depends on how the app developer does things. Here's the Aurora Store RSS feed for comparison.

For now, nothing can be done until someone finds a way to scrape the releases page itself. I'll add a more informative error message about this later.

[ImranR98]

Closing as there does not seem to be any way to enable this.

[m-rey]

while trying out other open source apps like Obtainium, I've noticed that Android OSS Release Tracker supports adding GitLab repos.

Maybe it's worth checking out how it's done there?

edit: while that app seems to detect the latest release version, it then merely links to it'
s release webpage. It doesn't scrape that page to retrieve the link to the actual apk file. my bad.

[ImranR98]

Not sure whether they actually scrape the APK file, but looking through their code reminded me that Obtainium now has an option to add a GitLab Access Token to enable search. The same token could be used to get release data via the API instead of the RSS feed (which is what it uses now).

The next update will use the GitLab API for better APK discovery, with the RSS feed as a fallback.

Thanks for bringing up this old issue.