Use cURL, Jq, Pup, XmlStarlet and 7zip

To update Windows 10 applications from the command line

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Author: Fabrice Sanga

cURL

cURL is used to:

• Get update information (latest version, setup location, checksum) in the form of an HTTP response header or body.
• To download the requested resource, provided that the setup location is retrieved from the HTTP request.

Jq, Pup, XMLStarlet

The response body is in either JSON, HTML, or XML formats. Then Jq, Pup and XMLStarlet are used to parse the body in the previous data formats taken respectively and retrieve the requested update information as tokens.

Find and FindStr batch commands

They are equivalent to grep in Linux and help parse HTTP response headers that are not in the previously listed formats.

7zip

It is used to unzip compressed setups in zip archives files and self-extracting files like chromium setups.

Usage

The profile.init.bat file contains the installation folders of the apps to update and the path to the batchfile autorun script that is run at cmd startup. If the app id is not this script, then it is installed in the default folder or the autorun folder in case it is a console app.

@Echo OFF
If %~1==autorun_parent Echo Path\To\Autorun\Profile\Folder
If %~1==app_id Set program_data=Path\To\Installation\Folder

The usage :

Update-App [CopyToDirectory]
CopyToDirectory     The directory where to backup the installer
App                 GoogleChrome, AvastSecure, Chocolatey, 7zip, Hugo, GitHubCLI,
                    Jq, Yq, Pup, XML, WmiExplorer, Rufus, Rainmeter, FirefoxDev, 
                    MJML, VLC, YoutubeDL, etc.

Examples

Update curl and save the setup to C:\Backup\Curl.

> Update-Curl.bat C:\Backup\Curl
> curl --version
  7.83.1_3

Update chrome and save the setup to C:\Backup\Chrome.

> Type assets\profile.init.bat
  If %~1==autorun_parent Echo %ProgramData%\Autorun
  If %~1==app_id Set program_data=%ProgramData%\Chrome

> Update-GoogleChrome.bat C:\Backup\Chrome

> chrome --version
  102.0.5005.63