

Ketarin
Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates and optionally installs setup packages by monitoring web pages for changes. As opposed to other tools, Ketarin is not meant to keep your system up-to-date (like a package manager), but rather to maintain a compilation of...
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- LordNecron reviewed Ketarin
This unique tool is geared less to keeping your installed apps up to date and more to computer techs to have the latest tools available at all times. Program installers, standalone malware scanners, definition files for AV and Malware tools, etc.
Depending on what you want can GREATLY increase the difficulty. If you just want things available from FileHippo or that someone else has scripted, easy. If you want something else be ready to use RegEx...
- TBayAreaPat reviewed Ketarin
Realize that you have to populate/add the programs that you want monitored . No automatic scanning of your computer like Patch-my-PC. That could be quite tedious. Perhaps there is a way to import a list from another update program.. it does have an import/export feature.
- Danilo_Venom added Ketarin as alternative to IObit Software Updater
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- 138 Stars
- 18 Forks
- 8 Open Issues
- Updated Jul 15, 2023
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I haven't really found anything that replaces Ketarin. Great for techs that try to keep their software tools updated so that if they do an on-site call at a place with slow or no internet, they still have up-to-date tools. The only caveat is that it is not easy to use with most sites OTHER THAN Filehippo. If it worked with, say, the bleepingcomputer.com download section that would be great.
Every once in a while it stops working with Filehippo and we have to wait until the author gets around to updating it. This last time it took a while, and after it was updated I had to update some of my Filehippo IDs with new(?) URLs.
This unique tool is geared less to keeping your installed apps up to date and more to computer techs to have the latest tools available at all times. Program installers, standalone malware scanners, definition files for AV and Malware tools, etc.
Depending on what you want can GREATLY increase the difficulty. If you just want things available from FileHippo or that someone else has scripted, easy. If you want something else be ready to use RegEx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
I haven't really found anything else like it.
Realize that you have to populate/add the programs that you want monitored . No automatic scanning of your computer like Patch-my-PC. That could be quite tedious. Perhaps there is a way to import a list from another update program.. it does have an import/export feature.
Ketarin is so good:
That it is the only update manager, other than ninite's simple web one, I trust for my releases
That you can trust it to NOT infect your users
That file Hippo doesnt slap them with a defamation suit, if fact Ketarin makes them MORE popular
Thats its under 4.5mb: You can include in in your projects, with the authors express permission
That it has an Italian How Too guide on http://www.megalab.it, here and MEGALAB is huge in Italy
[Edited by aazard, October 15]
automatic updates and optional install setup packages by monitoring web pages. I like it!
Amazingly simple and useful, other ones I have tried are full of bloat. Ketarin does what it says on the box perfectly
I have been waiting for something like this for a long time, i used ninite for a while but didn't really like it. Ketarin does what it says perfectly.