Grab Download Links For Previous Versions of an App

[SmokeyStack]

Is it possible to grab download links for previous versions of an app?

I currently have a project which is a Minecraft Launcher specifically for the Bedrock Edition. We have been using the same API that https://store.rg-adguard.net/ uses to fetch the latest download links. Using this method, we are able to retrieve download links for previous versions of the app as well. The UUIDs of past versions are stored here.

As of Sept 9, 2025, Mojang announced that they're switching from UWP to GDK which means that the API above no longer returns download links for the game. Researching the web is how I came across this repo and it works for the GDK version. However, I have merely just scratched the surface of this repo by compiling it myself and adding TraceLines to see what methods are being called. I cannot seem to find whether the API returns a uuid that can reliably be called for a specific version in the past(in this case, for Sept 9, 2025) since it seems to only grab the latest.

[skydevil88]

If you need download links for older versions, you must save them yourself, as the API does not provide historical versions.

[rtm516]

For windows 10 versions this is how you can download them
https://gist.github.com/rtm516/725fa1e38aafd2600976113ccc45a496

[skydevil88]

For windows 10 versions this is how you can download them https://gist.github.com/rtm516/725fa1e38aafd2600976113ccc45a496

How to find the historical version VersionId?

[rtm516]

You can't from my knowledge, you just have to keep track of them.
This repo has the VersionIds: https://github.com/MinecraftBedrockArchiver/Metadata
And one with just the links: https://github.com/MinecraftBedrockArchiver/GdkLinks