Github release downloads slice is empty

[xor-gate]

I expect the uploaded files to the github releases added to the release.Downloads slice. But it stays empty. Probably the github API must be used to itterate over this because the atom file doesn't contain the files.

https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases.atom at https://api.github.com/repos/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases

Docs: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/

[xor-gate]

Fetching a release by id:

 > curl -s https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases.atom | grep id | grep v0
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.46-1</id>
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.33-1</id>
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.8-2</id>
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.8-1</id>
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.8</id>
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.7</id>
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.6</id>
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.5</id>
    <id>tag:github.com,2008:Repository/60985120/v0.14.4</id>

the id could be used to fetch the release:

 > curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/tags/v0.14.46-1 | grep browser_download_url
      "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.46-1/Syncthing-0.14.46-1.dmg"

the whole list

 > curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases | grep browser_download_url
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.46-1/Syncthing-0.14.46-1.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.33-1/Syncthing-0.14.33-1.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.8-2/Syncthing-0.14.8-2.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.8-1/Syncthing-0.14.8-1.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.8/Syncthing-0.14.8.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.7/Syncthing-0.14.7.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.6/Syncthing-0.14.6.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.5/Syncthing-0.14.5.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.4/Syncthing-0.14.4.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.3-4/Syncthing-0.14.3-4.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/0.14.3-3/Syncthing-0.14.3-3.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.3-1/Syncthing-0.14.3-1.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.14.3/Syncthing-v0.14.3.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.13.10/Syncthing-v0.13.10.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.13.9/Syncthing-v0.13.9.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.13.6/syncthing-v0.13.6.dmg"
        "browser_download_url": "https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/releases/download/v0.13.5/syncthing-macosx-v0.13.5.zip"

[xor-gate]

To answer my own question, in the meantime I switched from go-appcast to google/go-github where I am able to fetch the release assets.

[victorpopkov]

Exactly. GitHub Atom Feed shows only some basic information about the releases and much important data is omitted. For example, releases stability and downloads, as you have already mentioned.

I was planning to add GitHub API support for quite a while in order to retrieve the missing data. I will definitely add this feature alongside with #1 in the next couple of days.

Thank you @xor-gate for all your suggestions. You are awesome!

[xor-gate]

No problem @victorpopkov, for now I will use my own simple implementation but if you need some feedback or a little help let me know by '@' mentioning me.

[xor-gate]

So I created a "production" script to transpile which is just a single file https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos/blob/develop/script/ghreleases2appcast.go. Maybe usefull for inspiration.