From a90430f72f3a852c7b7f0fb3906e8c6ecd61c79e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: notfire <notfire@posteo.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:53:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add script to download ruffle for flash support

---
 .gitignore               |  4 +++-
 README.md                |  2 ++
 tools/download_ruffle.py | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/download_ruffle.py

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a0be5c16..5ad1b015 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ selenium-debug.log
 config/local.json
 config/local.*.json
 docs/site/
-.vscode/
\ No newline at end of file
+.vscode/
+tools/.venv/
+static/ruffle/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a44def70..4a5b7be9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
     - script to get new emojis is included for future unicode versions
 - add toggle for showing post edit notifications
 - add support for accepted follow request notifications
+- add a script to download ruffle for flash support (requires python3 and requests library)
+  - download by entering `tools/` and running `python3 download_ruffle.py`
 
 ---
 
diff --git a/tools/download_ruffle.py b/tools/download_ruffle.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7c4905a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/download_ruffle.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import requests, json, zipfile, os, glob
+
+if os.path.isdir("../static/ruffle/"):
+    print("Flash is already downloaded, clearing old directory and updating...")
+    rm = glob.glob("../static/ruffle/*")
+    for x in rm:
+        os.remove(x)
+else:
+    print("Flash is not downloaded yet, creating directory...")
+    os.mkdir("../static/ruffle/")
+
+releases = requests.get("https://api.github.com/repos/ruffle-rs/ruffle/releases?per_page=1")
+releasesJsonified = json.loads(releases.text)
+
+for asset in releasesJsonified[0]["assets"]:
+    if "web-selfhosted" in asset["browser_download_url"]:
+        newFlashFiles = requests.get(asset["browser_download_url"])
+        flashDumped = open("flash.zip", "wb+")
+        flashDumped.write(newFlashFiles.content)
+
+        flashZip = zipfile.ZipFile("flash.zip", "r")
+        flashZip.extractall("../static/ruffle/")
+
+        rmglob = glob.glob("../static/ruffle/*.map")
+        rm = ["../static/ruffle/README.md",
+              "../static/ruffle/LICENSE_MIT",
+              "../static/ruffle/LICENSE_APACHE",
+              "../static/ruffle/package.json"]
+        for item in rmglob:
+            rm.append(item)
+
+        for item in rm:
+            os.remove(item)
+
+        flashZip.close()
+
+        os.remove("flash.zip")
+
+        print("Flash was successfully downloaded and extracted")
+        exit()
+
+print("Flash not found, download it manually at https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/releases")