I use code-server daily, but there is [an restriction] to install latest awesome extensions, so I created a script to download and install extensions from the VSCode official marketplace. One issue for using this script is that it will sometime failed to download extension due to Microsoft’s requests limit. You can either retry or manual download.
It will:
- Check the list of extensions latest version, and
- Do nothing if you already on the latest
- Try to download if not installed or not latest
- If it failed to download, will print the url for you to manual download
#!/bin/bash
EXT_NAMES=(
redhat.vscode-yaml
PKief.material-icon-theme
dracula-theme.theme-dracula
)
get_ext_json()
{
URL=$1
JSON=$(curl -s "$URL" | grep jiContent | sed 's/<script class="jiContent" defer="defer" type="application\/json">//'|sed 's/<\/script>//')
echo "$JSON"
}
for EXT_FULL_NAME in "${EXT_NAMES[@]}"
do
INSTALLED_VERSION=$(code-server --list-extensions --show-versions | rg -o "${EXT_FULL_NAME}@(.*)" -r '$1')
JSON_RESPONSE=$(get_ext_json "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=${EXT_FULL_NAME}")
LATEST_VERSION=$(echo "${JSON_RESPONSE}"|jq -r .Resources.Version)
if [[ ${INSTALLED_VERSION} == ${LATEST_VERSION} ]]; then
echo "${EXT_FULL_NAME} already installed with the latest version ${LATEST_VERSION}"
else
if [ -z "${INSTALLED_VERSION}" ]; then
echo "[${EXT_FULL_NAME}] not installed, trying to download and install"
else
echo "[${EXT_FULL_NAME}] upgrading from ${INSTALLED_VERSION} to ${LATEST_VERSION}"
fi
AUTHOR=$(echo "${JSON_RESPONSE}"|jq -r .Resources.PublisherName)
EXTNAME=$(echo "${JSON_RESPONSE}"|jq -r .Resources.ExtensionName)
EXT_URL="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/${AUTHOR}/vsextensions/${EXTNAME}/${LATEST_VERSION}/vspackage"
EXT_FILENAME="${AUTHOR}.${EXTNAME}-${LATEST_VERSION}.vsix"
echo "Downloading..."
curl -sL "$EXT_URL" -o "/tmp/${EXT_FILENAME}.gz"
if [[ $(file -b "/tmp/${EXT_FILENAME}.gz") == "JSON data" ]]; then
echo "Failed to download ${EXTNAME}, manual download with: ${EXT_URL}"
else
gunzip "/tmp/${EXT_FILENAME}.gz"
echo "Saved to /tmp/${AUTHOR}.${EXTNAME}-${LATEST_VERSION}.vsix, installing now"
code-server --install-extension "/tmp/${AUTHOR}.${EXTNAME}-${LATEST_VERSION}.vsix"
rm -f "/tmp/${AUTHOR}.${EXTNAME}-${LATEST_VERSION}.vsix"
fi
fi
done