WebPicDownloader/webpicdownloader/util/UpdateUtils.py

from re import fullmatch, Pattern
from urllib import request as http
from urllib.error import HTTPError


def fetch_version(url: str) -> str:
    """
    Retrieve the latest webpicdownloader version available.
    This method, only accept 200 http response.

    * :url: -> Url of the "VERSION" file on the repository.
    * RETURN -> the latests 'VERSION' file content.
    * THROWABLE -> can raise HTTP or URL error see urllib doc.
    """
    request = http.Request(
        url=url, 
        headers={'User-Agent': "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 11.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/604.1"}, 
        method='GET'
    )
    response = http.urlopen(request)
    if response.getcode() != 200:
        raise HTTPError("Bad response returned by server")
    return response.read().decode('utf-8')

def check_for_update(version_current: str, version_url: str, version_pattern: Pattern) -> bool:
    """
    Verify if a new version is available.

    * :current: -> Current version
    * :version_url: -> Url of the VERSION file on the repository.
    * :version_pattern: -> Patter to match version retrieved with the version_url.
    * RETURN -> True means a new version is available, False else.
    """
    version = fetch_version(version_url)
    if not fullmatch(version_pattern, version):
        raise ValueError('The version retrieved from the remote server is not valid')
    return version_current != version