Detection/Monitoring of major/minor FlashPlayer version updates across all supported platforms

Question

Is there any API we can use to call against or is there
another way of polling to monitor when new updates are released for
any/all platforms that FlashPlayer is published and maintained for?
I run a very large multinational consumer facing website with a ton
of Flash/Flex applications deployed on it and desperately need a
way of automating the process of making sure all of our apps work
between version updates to the player.
I see that in the client configuration settings for the
player, there is a way to configure the client to check for server
updates for itself periodically, the shortest interval being 7
days. Is the API it calls exposed in any public way that I could
use the same mechanism but also poll for updates for all supported
FlashPlayer versions? I tried to detect what it was using as an
endpoint on the Adobe.com with no success. Ideally I'd love to have
a daemon (I write myself obviously) on my end check the version
numbers periodically and send me messages when any of them change
so that way I can initiate the QA and any resulting development
updates to ensure that everything stay working nicely.

Answer 1

Thanks. Being able to do this would solve a ton of problems
for us as we get killed by version updates occasionally and I'd
rather be able to handle this as proactively as possible as opposed
to purely reactively. I was headed down the path of writing a cron
job to run some CURL code to just sniff at
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
until I realized that I was going to introduce two points of future
failure by hand-parsing the generated HTML to extract the version
string as well as having to seed the request header since the page
is dynamically generated based on the client browser. An external
API or at least a supported method of getting the same information
that I could rely on would help a TON.