How to import Fenix to Obtainium from an HTML source? Tried but in vain. #2024

PumpkinJui · 2024-12-10T10:53:02Z

PumpkinJui
Dec 10, 2024

Hi everyone. I want to import Fenix (aka Firefox for Android) to Obtainium in HTML mode, but despite hours' effort, I got nothing except error: Could not find a suitable release. I wonder if anyone could help me out.

First of all, I should explain why I need to use HTML mode. As I live in Mainland China, Google Play is blocked and other sources are either blocked or extremely slow. Firefox in the store is a specially provided version and not the same as the international one. So I have to get my apk from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/, known as Mozilla FTP.

The directory structure is neat. For example, the 133.0 version, arm64-v8a architecture apk of Fenix is located at https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fenix/releases/133.0/android/fenix-133.0-android-arm64-v8a/fenix-133.0.multi.android-arm64-v8a.apk. fenix/releases/ holds all releases (compared with candidates and nightly), including stable releases and beta releases, using version name as the directory name. Beta uses another package name and has a trailing b in the directory name, and I don't want to use it at all. Then android/ holds all architectures' apk of this version.

So, I used https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fenix/releases/ as the source link, and \d{2,3}\.\d/android/fenix-\d{2,3}\.\d-android-arm64-v8a/.+\.apk as the custom apk link filter. The regex is exactly correct, and everyone can check it with regexlearn playground; but Obtainium just responded with error: Could not find a suitable release. I also tried using some other variants, all of which correctly matched the link but just responded as error in Obtainium. I even split it into different parts and add them as intermediate links, but failed as well.

I am at the latest version (v1.1.34) and I've read the wiki but found nothing useful to solve this. Could anyone explain where I was wrong, how to correct it, or even whether Obtainium is capable of doing that? Thank you all for any help.