Repository Crawler 𝜷
A simple macOS utility for downloading, preserving and archiving Cydia/APT, Installer 3 & Installer 4 jailbreak repositories.
Repository Crawler is currently in an early beta stage. The application is designed to support three different jailbreak repository architectures (Cydia/APT, Installer 4 and Installer 3) spanning nearly 20 years of ecosystem evolution. While the software has been tested against many repositories, bugs, unexpected behaviour and compatibility issues may still occur.
If you encounter any issues, please report them to @SamGuichelaar.
What it does
Repository Crawler helps preserve Cydia/APT, Installer 4 and legacy Installer 3 repositories before they disappear. It can fetch repository metadata, list available packages, download selected or missing packages, and upload missing files to a central archive.
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Features
Repository support
- Cydia / APT repositories
- Installer 4 repositories
- Installer 3 repositories
- Automatic package metadata parsing
Package downloading
- Download individual, multiple or all packages from a repo
- Download packages missing from a local folder
- Queue-based downloading with progress
- Retry support for old or unstable servers
Archiving
- Optional APT repository metadata archiving
- Central online archive checking
- Upload packages missing from the archive
- Resume interrupted archive runs
Native macOS utility
- Should support MacOS 10.13 and above
- Search and filtering
- Package details panel for detailed viewing
- Built-in console with error filtering
Central archive
Repository Crawler can, if asked, compare a repository against a central online preservation archive. If packages are missing, it downloads them locally and uploads only the missing files. Running the same repository again will skip packages that have already been archived. This central archive will be used for backup purposes when a repository goes offline. More details to be released later.
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| Version | Beta 2 |
| Platform | macOS 14.3 and above. |
| Repository types | Cydia/APT, Installer 4, Installer 3 |