Lib.rs

Rido

Rido is a library crate which allows applications access to valid URLs and Checksums for various releases of Microsoft Windows. It is inspired by the Mido bash script and Fido PowerShell script.

Rido also provides a CLI, directly allowing users or applications to request URLs and checksums for various windows releases. This can be installed using cargo install rido. This CLI takes in a release, and optionally a language and architecture, and prints a URL and optionally a checksum to stdout, separated by spaces.

License

Rido is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3. This license prohibits the use of this crate as a library within nonfree software or any software licensed under incompatible licenses which enable the production of nonfree software, such as the MIT license.

Usage

Rido can be added to your project using cargo add rido

Optionally, you can enable enterprise windows releases with the enterprise feature.

A release can be fetched using the new method, which may return an error that must be handled. For example:

use rido::WindowsRelease;
let release = WindowsRelease::new("10", "English (United States)", "x86_64")?;

The WindowsRelease struct contains URL (String) and Hash (Option<String>) instance fields, which are populated by the new method.

Rido also supports downloading both 32-bit and 64-bit images for operating systems that support them. Windows 8, 10, and enterprise Windows 10 releases offer 32-bit images. Use the "i686" architecture to specify a 32-bit image, and "x86_64" for a 64-bit image.

Available Releases and Languages

10/11: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United States), English International, Estonian, Finnish, French, French Canadian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

8: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Traditional Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United States), English International, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

Enterprise:

10-ltsc/10-enterprise/11-enterprise: English (United States), English (Great Britain), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish

server-2012-r2/server-2016/server-2019/server-2022: English (United States), Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish