Electron Autoupdater with Private GitHub Repository?

Question

I have implemented Electron AutoUpdater with PRIVATE GitHub Repository as provider to publish electron application. Now, i can publish it using GitHub repository but Whenever Au

Answer 1

Are you using electron auto-updater module? from the API documentation, I can see that they don't support.

On the other hand, if you are using electron-updater module, make sure that you are following the recommended release workflow, and you should not use setFeedURL check the note here

Updated:

If you are using electron-updater and you are publishing to a private repository, you will need to make sure that your token will be available within the app-update.yml file, that's why many say it's not recommended, if the token is not set in your app-update.yml file you will get 404.

For electron-updater to auto add your token to the app-update.yml file the token should be set within the publish section like the following:

  "publish": [
    {
      "provider": "github",
      "private": true,
      "owner": "<github_owner>",
      "repo": "<repo_name>",
      "token": "<your github token>"
    }
  ],

This will produce a app-update.yml file like the following:

owner: <github_owner>
repo: <repo_name>
provider: github
private: true
token: <your github token>
updaterCacheDirName: electron-updater-private-updater

Check this small video

Here is my code https://github.com/linuxjuggler/electron-auto-update-example check the electron-builder.json file.

Update 2

Based on the note mentioned in the Quick Setup Guide section, you should never call setFeedURL.

Answer 2

Auto-Update - you can see that private github repos works only for very special cases, and they are recommending to have a separate release-only repository to distribute releases so source is locked down, and you can distribute to controlled machines. It is a useful feature since no server is required, but special use case. Also, you can make this work with s3 bucket or some other upgrade servers.