Datasources

Datasources are used in Renovate primarily to fetch released versions of packages.

getReleases

The minimum exported interface for a datasource is a function called getReleases that takes a lookup config as input.

The config contains:

• lookupName: the package's full name including scope if present (e.g. @foo/bar)
• registryUrls: an array of registry Urls to try

getReleases should return an object containing:

• releases: an array of strings of matched versions. This is the only mandatory field.
• deprecationMessage: a string description of the package's deprecation notice, if applicable
• sourceUrl: a HTTP URL pointing to the source code (e.g. on GitHub)
• homepage: a HTTP URL for the package's homepage. Ideally should be empty if the homepage and sourceUrl are the same
• changelogUrl: a URL pointing to the package's Changelog (could be a markdown file, for example). If not present then Renovate will search the sourceUrl for a changelog file.
• tags: an object mapping tag -> version, e.g. tags: { latest: '3.0.0' }. This is only used by the followTags function.

getDigest

Datasources that support the concept of digests (e.g. Docker digests and Git commit hashes) also can export a getDigest function.

The getDigest function has two inputs:

• config: the Renovate config for the package being updated, contains same fields as getReleases
• newValue: the version or value to retrieve the digest for

The getDigest function returns a string output representing the digest value. If none is found then a return value of null should be returned.