mozdownload

mozdownload is a node.js / coffeescript server to make it easier to download Firefox without knowing the version number associated with a given channel.

The parser is largely based on mozilla/mozdownload which is a python CLI tool.

Running it

1. Push it to heroku
2. npm install && PORT=8080 node boot.js

API

JSON with version & download URL

http://mozdownload/firefox/{lang}/{platform}/{type}/{channel}

Where:

• lang is a language that Mozilla build for (see latest mac for a sample list). Note: for nightly builds typically only en-US will be available.

• platform is the OS/architechture. Valid values at time of writing are linux, linux64, mac, and win32. mac64 and win64 may become available later.

• type is release or nightly

• channel will depend on type:

  • for release, typical values are latest (the current stable release) or beta (the latest beta). Additionaly other folder names found in the releases may work.

  • for nightly, typical values are trunk (the latest nightly) or mozilla-aurora (the latest aurora). Other folder names (starting with latest in nightly may work.

Redirect to download URL

http://mozdownload/firefox/{lang}/{platform}/{type}/{channel}/redirect

Will do a 302 redirect to the download URL

Redirect to download URL

http://mozdownload/firefox/{lang}/{platform}/{type}/{channel}/version

The body will simply be the version string (not enclosed in JSON).

Improvements

You could improve this app by taking advantage of libs/product-details which could reducing the scraping required.

Please consider changing the user-agent sent to Mozilla in directory_parser.coffee.