Programmatically resolving version aliases like stable/console/switch into version numbers?

[jeff.s]

Is there some endpoint to programmatically resolve Factorio version aliases like

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stable

or

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experimental

or

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console

into firm version numbers like

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1.1.74

?

I know there are these aliases on Steam but that information doesn't seem to be readily consumable by code. I'm looking to offer hosting for Switch players and would like to be able to automatically rebuild server images to keep up with the software running on their consoles.

An example of the type of thing I'm looking for:

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GET https://www.factorio.com/get-download/<ALIAS>/version.txt

returning a response like

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1.1.74

. Or just a fixed-url

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versions.json

with something like

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{"stable":"1.1.74", "console":"1.1.70"}

, or really anything that would be automation-friendly and not a burden to serve.

Thanks!

[Bilka]

You can get experimental and stable from https://factorio.com/api/latest-releases. Console should be the same as stable, but there is no guarantee that it is. I don't know of any place other than the steam branch that currently indicates the console version.

I'm looking to offer hosting for Switch players and would like to be able to automatically rebuild server images

Out of personal curiosity, how do you plan to deal with the fact that headless servers are not listed in the browse multiplayer game GUIs on switch?

[jeff.s]

Thanks for that link, that's great to know about. Is it possible for that to list the console version too, or is the Switch side of the release process less automated (due to review policies / etc, no need to get detailed) and that tag is just manually updated on Steam?

If not, since updates are fairly infrequent these days, I imagine I can get away pretty well with monitoring logs for version mismatch errors and making it easy for players to tell me via a side channel as well.

Out of personal curiosity, how do you plan to deal with the fact that headless servers are not listed in the browse multiplayer game GUIs on switch?

I'll give them a host/port to connect to directly, which I assume still works on the Switch. Not an ideal user experience but as long as they _can_ connect directly to a server it will work for what I'm trying to do.