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Distro watch "integration"
How could we implement a distro watch command to pull info about various distros? What info is available to use? Do they have an api? Would we need to scrape? Let's brainstorm!
https://distrowatch.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/emvgdw/distrowatch_api/
https://github.com/Zzzul/diwa
https://github.com/sxiii/distrowatch-scraper
https://pypi.org/project/distrowatchapi/
https://www.postman.com/lunar-star-949386/workspace/shub-s-public-workspace/documentation/967908-be493a6f-ed95-4298-b410-5c453a673c6f
https://github.com/jamezrin/distrowatch-parser
the scraper is probably the WTG here, but only issue is where would it be put and how much space would it take..
probably going to be slow as hell and we would have to run it fairly often, also distrowatch may block our server ip or some of our developers ips
Interesting project https://github.com/devnyxie/distro-api
Added some other parsers/scrapers/unofficial apis tho above, worth looking thru them all.
one thing i think would be cool but (probably) unfeasable due to colors and stuff.. using like neofetch style ascii art
Use the distrowatch API but cache the 5 results of one day, and take from the cache instead. this should mean that there won't be that many hits on the API, since considering the scope of the bot, there is an extremely slim chance anybody tries more than those 5 cached results of the day.
