Just my 2 cents, if you move to something like github's "latest" binary 
releases approach for projects, it works really well. 

I do that for a few of mine and it works great. As simple as a latest.zip that 
is them most recent version binary for Linux, OSX, & Windows. 

> On Dec 14, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Roger Dingledine <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 05:55:39PM +0100, MacLemon wrote:
>> I???d like to automate notifications about official new tor stable/unstable 
>> source versions like they???re linked on the downloads page. I???d like to 
>> regularly grab the versions and alert if the published version is newer than 
>> what I have.
>> 
>> Is there a URL where I can grab these version numbers in machine readable 
>> form since scraping the download page???s HTML is quite inelegant. (simple 
>> plaintext or JSON for example)
> 
> You might enjoy
> https://www.torproject.org/include/versions.wmi
> (the top two lines are what you want)
> 
> and/or
> 
> https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/
> (requires a bit more scraping)
> 
> In theory, one day we're going to switch away from wml for the website,
> so that wmi file will break then. But that theory could continue to take
> a good long while to come true.
> 
> --Roger
> 
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