Get SHA256 hash for Visual Studio Code installer file programmatically

[amtadev]

Hello,

Is there a web API (or otherwise) which would allow an automatic downloader script to fetch vscode installer's SHA256 hash, for any version of vscode including the latest? This would allow the script to verify the downloaded files automatically by comparing the hashes.

The hashes, for the latest version only, are currently shown in the bottom of the download page in a folded mode (i.e. it needs to be expanded for the browser to fetch the hashes and show them). This doesn't present an easy way for an automatic script to fetch them.

Thanks

[amtadev]

@joaomoreno what was the resolution for this?

[joaomoreno]

@amtadev I was waiting for the code to be deployed.

You now have the following API available:

https://update.code.visualstudio.com/api/versions/commit:COMMIT_ID/PLATFORM/QUALITY

Examples:

https://update.code.visualstudio.com/api/versions/commit:c7119ae8b6390a5700f6b28f0f1511d676c96562/win32-x64/insider
https://update.code.visualstudio.com/api/versions/commit:c7119ae8b6390a5700f6b28f0f1511d676c96562/darwin/insider
https://update.code.visualstudio.com/api/versions/commit:054a9295330880ed74ceaedda236253b4f39a335/darwin/stable

[joaomoreno]

@amtadev, you can help us out by confirming things are working as expected. If things look good, please leave a comment with the text /verified to let us know.

[amtadev]

@joaomoreno , This is /verified .. Thank you.

I accessed the link:
https://update.code.visualstudio.com/api/versions/1.56.0/win32-x64/stable
and got a json:
{"url":"https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/cfa2e218100323074ac1948c885448fdf4de2a7f/VSCodeSetup-x64-1.56.0.exe","name":"1.56.0","version":"cfa2e218100323074ac1948c885448fdf4de2a7f","productVersion":"1.56.0","hash":"ab40232ae7fd669effe6c35ea34948349c273a11","timestamp":1620165132598,"sha256hash":"9719979567f6788bcddc675df29a028e995c2724b7a714280c1e14302c2d6faa","supportsFastUpdate":true}
The sha256hash key gives the requested hash which is matching the hash calculated locally.

[amtadev]

@joaomoreno is there any documentation for the update.code.visualstudio.com API?

[joaomoreno]

To some extent: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/swagger.json