Getting deployed_version howto

[123mariachi123]

First of all let me say that this is a great project! Thanks for all your efforts.

However, i fail in understanding how i can get the version number of my deployed versions.
Fortunately the docs already cover a lot of services that i am using but not e.g.

• https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
• https://github.com/nzbgetcom/nzbget
• https://github.com/fallenbagel/jellyseerr or
• https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop

just to mention 4 of them.

Can anyone guide me and tell me how to get the version number in general? Is there a certain approach that you usually follow?
In all software i can browse to a page where i can find the version but trying to use regex to extract it from that page fails.

How do you usually approach this? How can i find out if e.g. a path like .../health or .../about or .../api/... exist and i can access the information?

Thanks a lot for your help and keep the good work going 😄

[JosephKav]

Hi, glad you're liking it :)

To get the deployed versions, I'd normally go to my deployed instance and see if the version is displayed anywhere. Then open the network tab in my browser and find where it's going to get that data. Or I'd try searching for a list of api endpoints on the GitHub page

[123mariachi123]

Alright, this was already helpful, although i am really bad when it comes to web related stuff 😫

Concerning my 4 examples above i was able to solve 2 so far with your hint and a bit of luck.
Just in case anyone has the same issue or you want to add it to your docs:

Jellyseerr

  fallenbagel/jellyseerr:
    latest_version:
      type: github
      url: fallenbagel/jellyseerr
      url_commands:
        - type: regex
          regex: v([0-9.]+)$
    deployed_version:
      method: GET
      url: https://jellyseerr.example.io/api/v1/status
      json: version
    dashboard:
      icon: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/selfhst/icons/png/jellyseerr.png
      web_url: https://github.com/fallenbagel/jellyseerr/releases/v{{ version }}

NZBget (i am no fan of services that require authentication just to get the version number though)

  fnzbgetcom/nzbget:
    options:
      semantic_versioning: false
    latest_version:
      type: github
      url: nzbgetcom/nzbget
      url_commands:
        - type: regex
          regex: v([0-9.]+)$
    deployed_version:
      method: GET
      url: https://nzbget.example.io/jsonrpc/version
      basic_auth:
        username: <username>
        password: <password>
      json: result
      regex: v([0-9.]+)$
    dashboard:
      icon: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/selfhst/icons/png/nzbget.png
      web_url: https://github.com/nzbgetcom/nzbget/releases/v{{ version }}

Still struggling with PairDrop and Homepage though. I am open for ideas 😄

[r4nchy]

I use almost all of my deployed services with sablierapp. It is a service which monitors my caddy and network requests for services and then starts or stops the respective docker containers. Very useful for low powered systems. As a result I cannpt use deployed_version type of url, as it fires up the containers randomly.

1. The manual type for deployed_version is a relief as it doesn't make random network requests to the service. However if there is a way to manually test the deployed_version instead of automatically using the type url. Like a button on the WebUI which upon clicking will be able to test the deployed_version using the url type and get the version number.

2. additional, the manual type also should have the ability to list the version tag numbers for selection from a drop down list (if argus stores the history of tag numbers) OR maybe just have a button on the WebUI that will just copy the latest_version number to the manual version number field. It will help as it removes the requirement of manually typing in the version number.