Support packages where the version numbers are available via an 3rd party API

[akondas]

An example of such package would be the no-content package from WordPress which only contains the WordPress files you need to be able to install WordPress using composer.

{
  packages: {
    example/wordpress-no-content: {
      "%VERSION%": {
        "name": "example/wordpress-no-content",
        "version": "%VERSION%",
        "dist": {
          "type": "zip",
          "url": "https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-%VERSION%-no-content.zip"
        },
        require: {
          johnpbloch/wordpress-core-installer: "^1.0"
        },
        type: "wordpress-core"
      }
    }
  }
}
Where %VERSION% is the specific WordPress version.

The API for the latest version numbers is available from https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/

Would there be a way to automatically get the latest versions from the API, add those versions to some kind of storage/DB, and have the repository list all available versions, without having to fork the project? (even if it requires custom code to obtain and store the available versions)