static list of released Splunk versions

[utoddl]

We have automation which compares installed versions of Splunk (universal forwarder mostly, but other instances) with released versions. Until very recently, we could easily scrape released Splunk versions from https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/VersionCompatibility/current/Matrix/CompatMatrix. However, that page now requires specific browsers, javascript, etc. which together makes pulling that data with curl particularly impractical.

Is there a web-accessible static source of released Splunk versions that's usable by automated processes?

[PickleRick]

Remember that:

1) Compatibility matrix contains only supported versions. Older versions are not covered

2) The matrix can lag behind current releases (today morning 9.2.8 still wasn't on the list, for example).

[utoddl]

Thanks to both @ITWhisperer and @livehybrid for these helpful solutions. Wrt setting the User-Agent header, I assumed (yeah, I should know better by now) that the page wouldn't claim to require specific browsers when plain old `curl` would work. The compatibility-matrix page seems like it ought to be the canonical source for this information, but looking at the actual content doesn't instill a sense of confidence. (It already broke recently for silly monkey reasons.) @livehybrid 's version.list page seems intended to be consumed by automation/scripts/etc., but it's also farther "downstream" from the source of truth than the matrix page. Either can be made to work today. Tomorrow? Job security for my successor. 🙂

[ITWhisperer]

Try setting the User-Agent header - for example

curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0" https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/release-notes-and-updates/compatibility-matrix/splunk-products-version-compatibility/splunk-products-version-compatibility-matrix

[livehybrid · Accepted solution]

Hi @utoddl 

Check out https://raw.githubusercontent.com/livehybrid/downloadSplunk/refs/heads/main/version.list

This is automatically updated daily with new builds based on the original work from ryanadler.

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