Preserving local web-ui, added --force-update-gui option to force che…

…ckout a new copy of web ui (#2117)

Co-authored-by: kuba <xnetcat.dev@gmail.com>

spotdl/console/web.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import logging
 import sys
 import webbrowser
+import os
 
 from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
@@ -62,13 +63,14 @@ def web(web_settings: WebOptions, downloader_settings: DownloaderOptions):
 
     downloader_settings["simple_tui"] = True
 
-    # Download web app from GitHub
-    logger.info("Updating web app \n")
+    # Download web app from GitHub if not already downloaded or force flag set
     web_app_dir = str(get_spotdl_path().absolute())
-    download_github_dir(
-        "https://github.com/spotdl/web-ui/tree/master/dist",
-        output_dir=web_app_dir,
-    )
+    if not os.path.exists(web_app_dir) or web_settings["force_update_gui"]:
+        logger.info("Updating web app \n")
+        download_github_dir(
+            "https://github.com/spotdl/web-ui/tree/master/dist",
+            output_dir=web_app_dir,
+        )
 
     app_state.api = FastAPI(
         title="spotDL",

spotdl/types/options.py

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ class WebOptions(TypedDict):
     ca_file: str | None
     allowed_origins: Optional[List[str]]
     keep_sessions: bool
+    force_update_gui: bool
 
 
 class SpotDLOptions(SpotifyOptions, DownloaderOptions, WebOptions):

spotdl/utils/arguments.py

@@ -659,6 +659,13 @@ def parse_web_options(parser: _ArgumentGroup):
         help="Keep the session directory after the web server is closed.",
     )
 
+    # Add keep sessions argument
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--force-update-gui",
+        action="store_const",
+        const=True,
+        default=False,
+        help="Refresh the web server directory with a fresh git checkout",
     # Enable TLS for the web server
     parser.add_argument(
         "--enable-tls",

spotdl/utils/config.py

@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ def get_parameter(cls, key):
     "ca_file": None,
     "allowed_origins": None,
     "keep_sessions": False,
+    "force_update_gui": False,
 }
 
 # Type: ignore because of the issues above