[aur-dev] [PATCH] Add newly submitted packages functionality with json interface

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Laszlo Papp <djszapi at archlinux.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:40 AM, elij <elij.mx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess I don't see the need for this.
>> If you want to see 'new packages', just use the rss feed.
>> Dumping this in the rcp api seems... wrong to me.
>>
>>
> Hello Elliot!
>
> Thank you the feedback! My opinion in this matter is that if I'd like to
> create a frontend program for AUR, especially console based e.g., or to
> create another API/backend for AUR, then the json interface/output would be
> more portable than parsing html/xml pages to get an option for a command
> line frontend to get the newly submitted/updated packages.
>
> Rss feed and this option are different purposes in fact.
> With this option from command line you could get anytime the newly
> updated/submitted packages, but with rss you see them continously. The first
> facility is really console based, but the second is webpage based, I think
> it's different or maybe I'm wrong.

You could do the exact same thing with an RSS feed... I don't
understand how this data being in RSS makes it so that you cannot
fetch the results whenever you want. RSS isn't made of magic.

$ cat aurpkgs.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

import feedparser

pkgs=feedparser.parse("http://aur.archlinux.org/rss2.php")

print pkgs.feed.title

for i in pkgs.entries:
    print i.title


$ python aurpkgs.py
AUR Newest Packages
munipack
rawtran
fitspng
sloppy
lib32-jack-audio-connection-kit
lib32-libsndfile
lib32-flac
perl-proc-pid-file
libcss-svn
libwapcaplet-svn
vpipe
aircrack-ng-cuda
perl-compress-zlib
generatorrunner
haskell-vty-ui
lua-md5
haskell-bindings-libcddb
geda-gaf
haskell-sample-frame
gdatacopier-svn