[Feature]: Deprecation warning for OmahaProxy, alternative might be needed?

[Hrxn]

What is your feature request?

Not sure when/if/how this will be a problem for Chrome?

evergreen/Evergreen/Manifests/GoogleChrome.json

Lines 1 to 7 in fc1b684

	{
	"Name": "Google Chrome",
	"Source": "https://cloud.google.com/chrome-enterprise/browser/download/",
	"Get": {
	"Update": {
	"Uri": "https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/json"
	},

This is basically the same what I've been doing in my own scripts:

$response = irm 'https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/all.json'
$versstr  = (($response | where {$_.os -eq 'win64'}).versions | where {$_.channel -eq 'stable'}).current_version

Problem is, there has been this warning at the top of the OmahaProxy page for quite some time now:

OmahaProxy will be turned down on April 14, 2023. Use ChromiumDash.

I mean, it's still up and running, but who knows?

I couldn't find any JSON endpoint on that ChromiumDash page yet, and I've also tried to ask this question in chromium-discuss but for reasons I do not understand my question has not appeared there yet...

An alternative might be needed, I think.

I've only found this ChromeForTesting project, and they provide JSON API info, but, in the current case, the version number for latest windows stable is not entirely correct..

Have you tested against the current version?

• Yes, I've updated Evergreen and tested against the current version.

Have you reviewed the documentation?

• Documentation at: https://stealthpuppy.com/evergreen/

[aaronparker]

We've used the Chrome for Testing feed for GoogleChromeDriver #537

[aaronparker]

ChromiumDash has this to query releases which might work:

https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/fetch_releases?channel=Stable&platform=Windows

[Hrxn]

You're right, good find.

That seems like the right URL for this.

As I see it, returns values in a JSON array, latest being in first position, so the correct version number would simply be $response[0].version?

[aaronparker]

Correct