The universe has cried and Kostyantin, the dev behind Whatsapp+ and Unigram+ NVDA addons, has delivered: Github-Release-Downloader, a NVDA addon that will happily download the latest release of any Github repo you throw at it. It's quite rudimentary at the moment i.e. we need to enter the URL manually, it can't handle multiple asset files etc. but I was just able to download some NVDA addons just fine. It's definitely a start.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/n7xn2fsv70c12ls41tgfm/GithubReleaseDownloader_1.0.0_Gen.nvda-addon?rlkey=giuk1emuxc8riz35iwbmcyx1p&dl=1
If you like this one and would like to support the dev, all the info you need is at https://t.me/unigramplus. Thanks, Kostya, and greetings to Ukraine! #NVDASR #Accessibility #Blind
@Piciok OK but why does this need to be an NVDA add-on?
@Brynify Because it has somehow become a fashion for all small, handy tools that are invoked with shortcut keys to be NVDA addons. haha Anyway: I threw the idea out there some weeks ago and nobody objected so I found a person who made it happen. It can be redone as an actual app, I guess if that's better.
@Piciok In my opinion that would be better, only reason I say that is not everybody uses NVDA and thus wouldn't be able to benefit from something like this that doesn't necessarily need to be an add-on anyway.