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I'm trying to implement a system that notifies the users when an update for my addon is available.

In this case my addon is uploaded to gumroad.

My thoughts about approaching this was:

I thought about directly type the current version of my addon in my addon page, so I can execute some kind of httprequest, get the text, and check if the version there was higher than the installed.

The problem:

It seems that the httprequest module is not installed by default with python (as I saw here (also tried it and effectively, is not installed)). So a question arises for me; if I use a python module that I have to install manually, I guess the user won't be able to execute in their side any function of that module? (or am I wrong?).

If so, then I simply don't know how to approach the problem without httprequest.

So, any idea about how to solve the problem?

Any idea is welcome, thank you so much

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Blender is shipped with requests library.

C:\Users\user>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender\blender.exe" --factory-startup -b --python-expr "import requests; print(requests.__file__); print(requests.__version__)"
Blender 4.1.0 (hash 40a5e739e270 built 2024-03-26 02:02:39)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender\4.1\python\Lib\site-packages\requests\__init__.py
2.27.1
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  • $\begingroup$ Aw, I should have tried my script inside Blender. I tried it in my python's console and since the default python installation didn't had it installed I thought Blender would neither had it. Thanks man, that makes everything easier. $\endgroup$
    – Ommadawn
    Commented Apr 19 at 10:47

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