How to automatically update Adnauseam on Chrome/Mac ?

[davids74]

Since 2022 Adnauseam ad blocker for Chrome has to be loaded from and stored in a separate folder somewhere on a hard drive.
Downloading the latest release as a .zip file and extracting copying over the previous version is mildly tedious.

I wonder if there is a OSX terminal command that could be run to compare the local version to online one ?
I've looked around and it does not seem to be described anywhere...

[davids74]

I tried
/Downloads/gh_2.39.2_macOS_amd64/bin/gh repo clone dhowe/AdNauseam
but is says

dyld: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime
  Referenced from: /Volumes/Docs/david/Downloads/gh_2.39.2_macOS_amd64/bin/gh
  Expected in: flat namespace

Trace/BPT trap: 5

I did not install it via brew because brew asks for xcode which does not install on my old computer.

[mneunomne]

Hi @davids74, that's a good idea yes.

I made this simple shell script that compares the online latest non-prerelease with the local one. I guess you can set it in some sort of auto-run?

#!/bin/bash

# Path to the adnauseam.chromium directory
EXTENSION_DIR="adnauseam.chromium"

# Path to the manifest.json file
MANIFEST_FILE="$EXTENSION_DIR/manifest.json"

# Check if the directory exists
if [ -d "$EXTENSION_DIR" ]; then
    # Get the current version from the manifest file
    CURRENT_VERSION=$(jq -r .version "$MANIFEST_FILE")
    CURRENT_VERSION="v$CURRENT_VERSION"
    echo "Current version: $CURRENT_VERSION"

    # Replace URL with the actual URL you want to use
    URL="https://api.github.com/repos/dhowe/AdNauseam/releases/latest"

    # Get the latest release information using curl and jq
    LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -s "$URL" | jq -r '.tag_name')

    # Check if the latest version is different from the current version
    if [ "$LATEST_RELEASE" != "$CURRENT_VERSION" ]; then
        echo "Updating AdNauseam extension..."

        # Download and extract the latest release
        curl -L -o "$EXTENSION_DIR.zip" "https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/releases/download/$LATEST_RELEASE/adnauseam.chromium.zip"
        unzip -q "$EXTENSION_DIR.zip" -d "./"
        rm "$EXTENSION_DIR.zip"

        echo "Update complete. Installed version: $LATEST_RELEASE"
    else
        echo "AdNauseam is already up to date. Installed version: $CURRENT_VERSION"
    fi
else
    echo "AdNauseam extension directory not found. Please make sure it is installed."
fi

[davids74]

I copy pasted it into terminal and got response
AdNauseam extension directory not found. Please make sure it is installed.

[davids74]

I tried
Davids-iMac:~ david$ cd $EXTENSION_DIR
-bash: cd: adnauseam.chromium: No such file or directory
Davids-iMac:~ david$

[davids74]

I replaced extension dir with "/Volumes/Docs/david/Documents/adnauseam.chromium" and it did something

`Davids-iMac:~ david$ if [ -d "$EXTENSION_DIR" ]; then

# Get the current version from the manifest file
CURRENT_VERSION=$(jq -r .version "$MANIFEST_FILE")
CURRENT_VERSION="v$CURRENT_VERSION"
echo "Current version: $CURRENT_VERSION"

# Replace URL with the actual URL you want to use
URL="https://api.github.com/repos/dhowe/AdNauseam/releases/latest"

# Get the latest release information using curl and jq
LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -s "$URL" | jq -r '.tag_name')

# Check if the latest version is different from the current version
if [ "$LATEST_RELEASE" != "$CURRENT_VERSION" ]; then
    echo "Updating AdNauseam extension..."

    # Download and extract the latest release
    curl -L -o "$EXTENSION_DIR.zip" "https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/releases/download/$LATEST_RELEASE/adnauseam.chromium.zip"
    unzip -q "$EXTENSION_DIR.zip" -d "./"
    rm "$EXTENSION_DIR.zip"

    echo "Update complete. Installed version: $LATEST_RELEASE"
else
    echo "AdNauseam is already up to date. Installed version: $CURRENT_VERSION"
fi

else
echo "AdNauseam extension directory not found. Please make sure it is installed."
fi
-bash: jq: command not found
Current version: v
-bash: jq: command not found
(23) Failed writing body
Updating AdNauseam extension...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 9 100 9 0 0 10 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10
[/Volumes/Docs/david/Documents/adnauseam.chromium.zip]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /Volumes/Docs/david/Documents/adnauseam.chromium.zip or
/Volumes/Docs/david/Documents/adnauseam.chromium.zip.zip, and cannot find /Volumes/Docs/david/Documents/adnauseam.chromium.zip.ZIP, period.
Update complete. Installed version:
Davids-iMac:~ david$
`

[mneunomne]

Ah yes, sorry I forgot to say that you need to be in the folder where your adnauseam.chromium is located...

Also you need jq installed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37668134/how-to-install-jq-on-mac-on-the-command-line

[davids74]

I try to run Xcode to install brew but it just hangs on verification.

It seems strange that you need to download and install a 2GB app to download and install 2kb of code.

[dhowe]

it sure does... talk to apple

[mneunomne]

True you are running an old version of Mac, sometimes it's hard to install things on terminal with them from my own experience...

[dhowe]

This is a difficult but important problem/feature, but I do think we need to maintain cross-platform compatibility, which includes, however unfortunately, windows...