Package: mozilla-devscripts
Version: 0.35
Severity: wishlist
I'd like mozilla-devscripts to include a tool that will download
"Version History"[0] page of an add-on, and then generate upstream
changelog from it. I've attached prototype that I used to generate
upstream changelog for openinbrowser.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/${addon}/versions/
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Jakub Wilk
#!/usr/bin/python3
import argparse
import urllib.request
import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument('extension')
options = ap.parse_args()
url =
'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/{ext}/versions/format:rss'.format(ext=options.extension)
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as file:
for event, element in etree.iterparse(file):
if element.tag != 'item':
continue
title = element.find('title').text
print(title)
print('=' * len(title))
descr = element.find('description').text
print(descr)
print()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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