Can a URI to a specific version be crafted?

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Aurora offers a "Manual download" option: ¹

Can its logic be utilised to craft a URI to a specific version?

Footnotes

1. reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/qw9yc4/comment/k8h1vr6 ↩

[whyorean]

Hey @RokeJulianLockhart
I'm not sure I understood you correctly, can you please elaborate?

[RokeJulianLockhart]

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@whyorean, I'm trying to ascertain whether creating a URI for a specific version of an application is possible. Aurora Store is able to acquire specific versions from its GUI, but since users have no way to share a hyperlink to a version from the Aurora Store GUI, I'm asking whether it's possible for a user to create one themselves if they know the version code. Theoretically, like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks&version_code=454332287. If not, how does AS accomplish this? (Does it send some JSON to an endpoint and await a response?)

[whyorean]

I'm trying to ascertain whether creating a URI for a specific version of an application is possible.

No

I'm asking whether it's possible for a user to create one themselves if they know the version code.

I don't think it would be a functional URL, even if we do.

If not, how does AS accomplish this?

Aurora Store does a best effort query to GPlayAPI, it doesn't know the available version in advance.

Does it send some JSON to an endpoint and await a response?

Yeah, more or less, its just a protobuf request instead of a JSON request.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

I don't think it would be a functional URL, even if we do.

@whyorean, if you ever happen to see in the code a way to construct one, I'd love to know regardless, because my use case is linking to specific revisions in Google Play as a reference when reporting issues to Google themselves. I can't well link to APKMirror without upsetting them, but there's no other way to link to a specific version of a package.