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+"""
+checks local verions against published verions.
+
+Usage:
+
+python .github\scripts\check_version_has_incremented.py js .\apps\js-sdk\firecrawl @mendable/firecrawl-js 
+Local version: 0.0.22
+Published version: 0.0.21
+true
+
+python .github\scripts\check_version_has_incremented.py python .\apps\python-sdk\firecrawl firecrawl-py             
+Local version: 0.0.11
+Published version: 0.0.11
+false
+
+"""
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import requests
+from packaging.version import Version
+from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
+
+
+def get_python_version(file_path: str) -> str:
+    """Extract version string from Python file."""
+    version_file = Path(file_path).read_text()
+    version_match = re.search(r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]", version_file, re.M)
+    if version_match:
+        return version_match.group(1).strip()
+    raise RuntimeError("Unable to find version string.")
+
+def get_pypi_version(package_name: str) -> str:
+    """Get latest version of Python package from PyPI."""
+    response = requests.get(f"https://pypi.org/pypi/{package_name}/json")
+    version = response.json()['info']['version']
+    return version.strip()
+
+def get_js_version(file_path: str) -> str:
+    """Extract version string from package.json."""
+    with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
+        package_json = json.load(file)
+    if 'version' in package_json:
+        return package_json['version'].strip()
+    raise RuntimeError("Unable to find version string in package.json.")
+
+def get_npm_version(package_name: str) -> str:
+    """Get latest version of JavaScript package from npm."""
+    response = requests.get(f"https://registry.npmjs.org/{package_name}/latest")
+    version = response.json()['version']
+    return version.strip()
+
+def is_version_incremented(local_version: str, published_version: str) -> bool:
+    """Compare local and published versions."""
+    local_version_parsed: Version = parse_version(local_version)
+    published_version_parsed: Version = parse_version(published_version)
+    return local_version_parsed > published_version_parsed
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    package_type = sys.argv[1]
+    package_path = sys.argv[2]
+    package_name = sys.argv[3]
+
+    if package_type == "python":
+        # Get current version from __init__.py
+        current_version = get_python_version(os.path.join(package_path, '__init__.py'))
+        # Get published version from PyPI
+        published_version = get_pypi_version(package_name)
+    elif package_type == "js":
+        # Get current version from package.json
+        current_version = get_js_version(os.path.join(package_path, 'package.json'))
+        # Get published version from npm
+        published_version = get_npm_version(package_name)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("Invalid package type. Use 'python' or 'js'.")
+
+    # Print versions for debugging
+    print(f"Local version: {current_version}")
+    print(f"Published version: {published_version}")
+
+    # Compare versions and print result
+    if is_version_incremented(current_version, published_version):
+        print("true")
+    else:
+        print("false")