Static "latest" headless download link

[quyxkh]

From what I can tell,

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https://www.factorio.com/get-download/latest/headless/linux64

downloads the experimental release if available. I haven't been able to find a way to download the latest stable release. Does one exist?

A little light scraping seems to work pretty well:

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#!/bin/sh
mylatest=
check=https://www.factorio.com/download-headless/stable
latest=$(curl -sL $check | awk '/get-download/{print get""$2;exit}'  FS=\" get=${check%/down*})
[[ $latest != $mylatest ]] && {
  curl -sL "$latest" > newrelease.tar.xz
  sed -i '0,/mylatest/s|mylatest=.*|mylatest='$latest'|' "$0"
  haveyourwaywith newrelease.tar.xz
}

[dgw]

Why would you wait for the stable ?

It's not for me, it's for a potential Hacktoberfest contribution to resolve a feature request in Bisa's init script I'm toying with.

Edit (didn't see the second page on mobile): Thanks for the Bash snippet, I might end up using that.