archlinux
Create a real REST API for accessing package data
Currently we have no real official REST API or consistent JSON API. We need to figure out what data we want to have easily query'able for users.
Current "API":
- http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?q=$search term
- https://www.archlinux.org/packages/$repo/$arch/$pkgname/json/
- https://www.archlinux.org/packages/$repo/$arch/$pkgname/files/json/
- https://www.archlinux.org/todo/$todoname/json
- https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/json/
- https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
- https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/tier/1/json/
- https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/locations/json/
- https://www.archlinux.org/master-keys/json/
- https://www.archlinux.org/releng/releases/json/
What's missing
- A generic way to create a token and for example mark signoffs securely. arch-signoff now relies on doing http basic auth
- Todo list overview endpoint https://www.archlinux.org/todo/json
- Documentation
- Performance
may i help you with Django restframework? and maybe a little more detail about what you want?
From task 57137, it would be nice to be able to query the last version of a bunch of packages, AUR provides such interface:
https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=spotify&arg[]=pacaur
Right now the query has to be done per-package, which is extremely inefficient.
Other APIs provide similar queries, where you can get a specific attribute for a bunch of IDs, some limit the number, like 20.
For example:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages?ids=spotify,pacaur&attributes=version
it's been a long time..., but I'm still willing to do it because I love the arch community :)