It would be helpful to have a button to download installers for all selected apps at the same time (even if they can't be zipped into one file, it would be fine they were automatically downloaded separately).

Error: invalid json response body at https://api.winstall.app/packs reason: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

Chinese users can't access to twitter and login to winstall. If winstall supports microsoft, wechat, or qq account login, we will be able to login.

Description:

I'm having this bug since Winstall was created where the profile area doesn't display correctly. I'm attaching a screenshot to this post to illustrate what's happening. I also disabled all my extensions temporarily to see if any of them were interfering with the layout of the website, but it didn't change. I tested loging in on another browser (Brave) and the bug didn't occur, which leads me to believe that is some related to Edge.

Basic info:

OS: Windows 11, but it was also happening on 10
Browser: Microsoft Edge (only occurs on Edge)

Screenshot:

Recently Winget allowed to submit download URLs that don't have a specific version label, and just add latest as a package version in the yaml manifest:

PackageVersion: latest

Winstall parses the latest string as a regular version, and the result looks like this:

As an option, it can be displayed as Latest (without the v).

After microsoft/winget-cli#823 is implemented, there will be a possibility to sort apps by installation mode - interactive or silent.

Would be useful to add a new section to app descriptions with the supported modes.

The modes in the manifests are found here:

InstallModes:
  - interactive
  - silent
  - silentWithProgress

To Reproduce:

1. Create a New Pack, add title, description, and 5 packs.
2. Save => Shows correctly in the view packs page.
3. Select Edit Pack that was just created from the steps above.
4. Make changes to title, desc and add more packs
5. Press Update Packs
6. View Packs page did not display updated changes.

If you search for onlyoffice it does not appear as a search result, despite being in the repository
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors

The app uses a simple concept of rehydration to make sure the local cache is updated every 5 hours -- but when a user manually clears the cache, the last rehydration time is not reset and therefore. It should reset the last rehydration time as clearing the cache fetches the latest data and there won't be any need to re-fetch the data till the next rehydration.

Hi, I noticed that when you change the version selection on an app page, the download snippet isn't updated to match.

I'm not a front-end dev, or I'd submit a PR.

Thanks!

Can't seem to use or view any packs on site. Has the token you used expired? https://api.winstall.app/packs > Could not authenticate access token, sorry!

Hello I'm Daniel and I would like to place an order, I found the winstall sensational! But I can't install the winget, and I like chocolatey better, you could add a way to install via chocolatey on the Get the pack script screen, thanks!

Some useful things

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45602103/get-list-of-chocolatey-packages-using-api

choco list --limit-output

Example

My mistake when installing the winget is this:

Application installation failed with the error message: error 0x80070005: Failed to open the package from location a.appxbundle. (0x80070005)

Hey, thanks for everything you've done so far with the neat website UI and scripting generation. It's really cool! 😁

For now, I've brought some ideas on note and I'd like to share with you.

Show amount of downloaded times for each pack (on results/pack page, if possible)
Provide source /website (if possible)

Issue - When leaving a page to view the app info, it discards changes without notice
Issue - When deleting the first letter it reloads and stops you from typing for a small amount of period
Show app versions next to the package names (optional setting)
Scroll down to the previous position of the page when going Next/Previous pages on browsers (currently it bumps back to the top)

That's what I got for now. If I have some more ideas/issues/feedback, I'll try to note them again and post here or in a new thread.

Keep up the good work. 👍🏻

This would be helpful to download the latest versions of a number of apps or to share the app configuration with someone else.

I get invalid json response body at https://api.winstall.app/packs reason: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0 error at https://winstall.app/packs

I created a collection of around 35 apps, which is superb

However some of them throw errors and kill it.
While obviously they need reporting individually, it would make sense to allow the script to continue, otherwise its somewhat of a chore to manually re-paste in

Also, if a app is already found, if possible it should give you an option to skip or re-install (pre download)
I might look at BAT file options for this.#

Finally the cut and paste would be easier to read for resarting purposes if there was a line break at the end of each comment, after the &&

Packs are no longer possible to load. Clicking on one will create an error

Recieved error: [object Object]

Exemple

The text in the pull down menu in dark mode is unreadable. I use the latest MS Edge Canary.

Issue

When using dark mode, the drop down with all the available versions for an app is displayed with dark text on a dark background making it unreadable.

Screenshot

Captured on Microsoft Edge (85.0.564.63)

There are over 300 items and sometimes you have to scroll a little bit .
Adding a scroll to top button should improve the experience

Since a few days I get an error when trying to visit my packs:

JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Could you help me?

created a pack and went to authorize my twitter login and nothing happened.

Amazing project.

The winget install --id=Google.Chrome -e snippet can be simplified to winget install Google.Chrome since v0.1.42101-preview.

HI,
would be possible to add for example this 3 are really crucial for my work in Company :)

-o,--log Log location (if supported)
-l,--location Location to install to (if supported)
--force Override the installer hash check

The scripts generated will not work with some specific packages, like Git and GIMP since there are multiple packages with the same name (capitalized and non capitalized), for it to work you need to add -e / --exact to be able to install the package.

The Packs aren't great for managing a list of apps you use, to install on new systems. The format of .bat/.ps1 files with winget commands is pretty standard. Which a little bit of loose whitespace handling and ignoring extra args, it would probably be pretty easy to read winstall exported ones, ones exported by other sites, and even some manually authored ones.

It would be great to have a "Load" (or "Load from Batch/PowerShell") button that would let us choose say a winstall.bat file and have all the apps in the file selected (with an option to override or merge if some are already selected).

Then it would be possible to download a winstall.bat, load it later, and download a new one - in order to essentially edit the winstall.bat.

the Sorting Order by Name Descending/Ascending on the App-Page is mixed up.
Ascending is supposed to sort from A - Z
Descending should sort from Z - A

Hello,
Please use transparent apple-touch-icon.

Light:

Dark:

Like title

With the addition of icons comes the question: where does the winstall api get app icons from? The winget manifest does not seem to support icon urls.

It's been some months I started using Winstall.App, but I hadn't submitted feedback for you.

I have some stuff to share and thoughts on this in order to make it a better product.

1. (suggestion) Sort by Popularity filter (most/less popular);
2. (suggestion) Add # of installs to the packages and main pages;
3. (suggestion) Add "View source" link to the project (if it's open-source);
4. (suggestion) Scroll back to previous position after browsing back from the package's page (remember scrolling position);

5. (issue) Prompt for unsaved changes on custom pack page (warn before leaving, changes will be lost, see video above);
6. (issue) Sometimes the packages pages take too long to load (see video above);
7. (suggestion) Add email and more OAuth login options: GitHub, Google, Facebook;
8. (suggestion) Add full dump plain page with a list of all available packages, # of downloads and latest versions (if possible);
9. (suggestion) Add "Missing a package? Ask to be added here." link for people that want to include new packages to the repositories;
10. (suggestion) Add support for reactions on pages (likes/dislikes/hearts/similar to GitHub's posts) and comments on each packages pages (Discourse would be my suggestion here);
11. (issue) Make software/package favicon/logo fetching better (many software are missing their icons).

That's all I can remember for now. Thanks for maintaining this useful tool.

Maybe I can help in the future with some other stuff, who knows... 🤷‍♂️

Take care.

Would it possible to show app icons on the all apps page? The logos would make it easier to skim the page.

can winstall detect that a program is already installed, OR WAS JUST Installed and just skip over it?? there seems to be a hiccup when "reinstalling" brave / winrar for example. it halts progress and does not over-install over those. here is the winstall one i generated and used.

winstall (2).zip

i generated one package with 8 apps. forgot an app, and re-generated another winstall but when i tried to run that, i was getting errors. does this winstall software support "over installing" already installed apps?

and also Installer failed with exit code: 1223 too.

Powershell's been the defacto scripting language for Windows since 2007. No reason anyone should be writing .bat scripts anymore.

Why am I forced to log into Twitter for a pack?

Seems like a completely disconnected login process, I would understand if it was the Microsoft account login.

When you use the export bat file, it doesnt handle a failure well and its all a bit clunky.
So i set about improving it, and also it should make the generation of the BAT file easier

Sorry I dont have time or the project knowledge to do a pull request

https://github.com/Senses-Web-Solutions/wInstall_bat/blob/main/example.bat

Add the radio button to the --force parameter to force installations. This will help to create scripts for GPO management and deployments.

The ability to sign in to one or more of the following would be a great addition.

• google
• Facebook
• apple
• microsoft

That way, you can directly send the install command. Something like what Cydia does perhaps?

When turning the webpage into a Edge Webapp, it uses the description.

Instead of doing winget install A; winget install B, do winget install A B

EDIT: Sorry, my mistake. I thOught it did support that back in the days but I guess it was just me wishing it was that way :')

The search seems to not include the tags fields from the manifest yaml file.

I'm running Winstall in the Install as Application in Edge. It works great, but now there is no back button anymore. So when I press on more info for a App, I cannot go back to the overview.

Winget shows 7zip as 19.0.0. Winstall shows 16.0.4. It looks like both are available as manifests, but only the older one in Winstall.

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/7Zip/7Zip

Typo is "Septeember" in the month array.