Update Checker

A Python utility for automatically checking and downloading updates for files and GitHub releases. It supports MD5 verification, automatic process management, and archive handling.

Features

• Download and update files from URLs and GitHub releases
• MD5 checksum verification
• Automatic backup of existing files
• Process management (kill and relaunch capabilities)
• Archive extraction support
• Concurrent processing with thread pooling
• Configurable logging

How it works

1. Reads configuration entries
2. For each entry:
   • Downloads file from URL or GitHub release
   • Verifies MD5 checksum if provided
   • Creates backup of existing file
   • Updates file if necessary
   • Handles process termination if file is locked
   • Extracts archives if specified
   • Launches/relaunches applications as configured

Getting Started

• Create %USERPROFILE%\updatechecker.yaml (or just updatechecker.example.yaml in the cloned repository folder) from updatechecker.example.yaml
• Modify its values according to the examples

Installation

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ALERTua/updatechecker.git

2. Install uv
3. Execute updatechecker.cmd