Programmatically get URL of latest file released in a Google Code project's Downloads section?

Question

My C# app needs to check for updates at http://code.google.com/p/cmissync/downloads

I could scrap the HTML, but is there a better solution?
I did not find any Google API that allows this.

Note: I don't want to maintain a text file containing the version number somewhere, because it would make the release process a bit less lean.

Answer 1

I have just found an URL that returns an Atom description of the latest downloads:

https://code.google.com/feeds/p/cmissync/downloads/basic

Excerpt:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
 <updated>2013-03-14T04:37:53Z</updated>
 <id>http://code.google.com/feeds/p/cmissync/downloads/basic</id>
 <title>Downloads for project cmissync on Google Code</title>
 <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml;type=feed" href="http://code.google.com/feeds/p/cmissync/downloads/basic"/>
 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://code.google.com/p/cmissync/downloads/list"/>

 <entry>
 <updated>2013-03-14T04:37:53Z</updated>
 <id>http://code.google.com/feeds/p/cmissync/downloads/basic/CmisSync_0.4.6.msi</id>
 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://code.google.com/p/cmissync/downloads/detail?name=CmisSync_0.4.6.msi" />
 <title>
 CmisSync_0.4.6.msi (1.5 MB)
 </title>
 <author>
 <name>nicolas.raoul@gmail.com</name>
 </author>
 <content type="html">
&lt;pre&gt;
CmisSync 0.4.6

&lt;a href=&quot;http://cmissync.googlecode.com/files/CmisSync_0.4.6.msi&quot;&gt;Download&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/pre&gt;
 </content>
</entry>


 <entry>
 [...]

Even without an Atom library, it should be easy enough to filter only the <id> elements, which gives the feed identifiers of the 100 most recent files. From these identifiers, a list of download URLs can be extrapolated:

http://code.google.com/feeds/p/cmissync/downloads/basic/CmisSync_0.4.6.msi → http://cmissync.googlecode.com/files/CmisSync_0.4.6.msi

Another easier solution is warmly welcome!