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Firmware Downloads
FYI here's a little script that downloads all available firmware versions starting with v6.0.0. It'll be good to keep them on hand for the day that they go away online. Unfortunately, however, so...
There are KB articles here
In your travels, have you come across a single page that lists all KB download articles? I've decided to take a different approach in the script and instead scrape the article pages for the links.
We're able to cycle through the version numbers easily enough (see above), but coming up with the KB articles will prove to be a cumbersome bottleneck. I guess we could start with the KB# for v6.0.0 and increment +1 from there, but that'd be a lot of useless traffic (and 404 wait time) until we hit a legitimate page. That'd be my last choice for a design, frankly.
I know the odds of such a central KB page existing are slim, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
If it weren't for those blasted KB numbers in the URLs, we'd be home free!
In your travels, have you come across a single page that lists all KB download articles?
No. I believe CrimpOn has created an index of the complete KB, but I don't know how he does that.
FWIW, I think the loss of the Netgear repositories (which has already happened) is a bigger deal than the firmware. Another challenge for some is the loss of licenses for Surveillance and Milestone Arcus after a factory reset.
Though I have kept my own archive of 6.10.x firmware releases.
I'd be very interested to hear from him.
Try a private message (PM) using the envelope icon in the upper right of the forum page.
CrimpOn reports that the URL is https://kb.netgear.com/sitemap.
He's written Python programs that go through the file and build various summaries.
His current use is:
- I run a Python program every day to process the file and create a csv file with only the English articles (about 8,897 out the total of 25,354).
- Then run another Python program comparing this file with the previous day and find:
o Every article that is "new"
o Every article that no longer appears
o Every article where the title has changed
o Every article where the title remains the same but the "last update" date has changed - It's pretty clear that no one is updating articles most weekends
- Twice this year, Netgear completely reloaded the Knowledgebase, which changed the date of last update on every article to that date. i.e. indicating that the date that appears when an article is displayed was not entered by the author, but has been set by the loading process.
(a major annoyance because I have to delete all those rows from the results file).
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