APK Updater

This python script downloads all new APKs for your local f-droid repo from apkcombo.

Prerequisites

Use Ubuntu 22.04 server (headless) with at least 1 GB RAM
Install python 3.10 and PIP
apt install python3 python-pip3
Install selenium
pip install selenium
Install MySQL Connector
pip install mysql-connector-python
Download latest firefox binary (do not use apt install!) from: https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/linux/ and extract into /opt
tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2 && mv firefox /opt
ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Download latest geckodriver from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases and extract into /opt
tar -zxvf geckodriver-*.tar.gz && mv geckodriver /opt/
ln -s /opt/geckodriver /usr/bin/

Installation

Download python-script and edit values for paths (regaring your f-droid config) and mysql connection details.
Execute db.sql file in your database to set up the working database.
Execute the python-file for the first test run and watch console outputs.
python3 updater.py
If everything went well, configure crontab to run the script hourly (this is the refresh interval of the apkcombo RSS feed).
crontab -e
30 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /mnt/data/updater/updater.py > /dev/null 2>&1
In case you want to have a logfile, use this line:
30 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /mnt/data/updater/updater.py >> /mnt/data/updater/updater.log

Remarks

I am not affiliated with any APK developer, nor f-droid or apkcombo. All rights belong to their owner.