version

Version is a simple API for finding the latest release version of a project on GitHub. It's built for projects that are distributed through GitHub's release functionality, and meant to be run on a project's own domain, e.g. version.writefreely.org.

Features

• Lightweight wrapper on top of GitHub's API
• Resilient / still functional when GitHub is down
• Useful public API for varying use cases
• Minimal logging

Getting Started

With Go installed, run these commands:

go get github.com/writefreely/version/cmd/version

export VER_ORG=writeas
export VER_REPO=writefreely
export VER_PORT=8080
version

Then open your browser to http://localhost:8080

API

GET /

Returns version number / tag as plain text, e.g. v0.8.1

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Use
v	String	Supply a version number to get a response of whether or not it's the current one