Automate check for a new Nvidia or Intel drivers

Sometimes you need to know when a new version of graphics driver is available and do not want to install constantly running in background tools from a manufacturer. Like Nvidia experience or Intel driver assist tool. Or you need notifications for the remote machine.

Luckily there is exists packages for Nvidia and Intel in the chocolatey project repository. And they updated pretty quickly. So using API it is possible to poll them for a new version.

https://github.com/kotofos/check-chocolatey-package-version

code example:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import zipfile
from io import BytesIO
from urllib.request import urlretrieve, urlopen

driver_url_map = {
    'nvidia': 'https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/nvidia-display-driver',
    'intel': 'https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/intel-graphics-driver',
}


def download(url):
    f = BytesIO()
    response = urlopen(url)
    f.write(response.read())
    return f


def get_current_version(name):
    url = driver_url_map[name]
    archive = download(url)
    zip = zipfile.ZipFile(archive)

    string = zip.read(url.rpartition('/')[-1] + '.nuspec').decode()
    string = "\n".join(string.split("\r\n"))
    root = ET.fromstring(string)

    tag_name = ('{http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2011/08/nuspec.xsd}' 

                'version')
    for elem in root.iter():
        if elem.tag == tag_name:
            return elem.text


if __name__ == '__main__':
    for name in ('nvidia', 'intel'):
        res = get_current_version(name)
        print('version for', name, res)