Acrobat Reader update information

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July 20, 2018
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Hi,

Is there a way to get structured information about Adobe Acrobat Reader (and possibly other Adobe products) updates and patches? Something like an API or machine readable files. I know there are HTML pages that list updates, however my goal is to have a database with Acrobat Reader updates & patches and therefore structured information would be much better option.

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try67

Community Expert

Not sure if it exists, but since the updates are available on an FTP server you can quite easily write some kind of script that will monitor it and will let you know when a new folder is available. The location of the updates for the Windows version of Reader DC is:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/

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marcinbudnyAuthor

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Hi,

Thank you for your answer. I'm actually considering taking this approach. However what is also interesting for me, is the information on what the patch actually fixes. There is a lot of information related to a patch on the web pages (e.g. vulnerabilities that the patch fixes). But the FTP server only provides me with the file name.

try67

Community Expert

I think it should be possible to parse the name of the folder to a string and then extract the release notes for it automatically from the web-page, but it's not a simple task... Would be nice if there was an RSS feed with the release information and a link to the installation file.

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