[aur-general] New AUR Metadata Archives

[Kevin Morris]

Apologies; I misspoke -- This is the first I'm hearing about NDJSON.
However, we would like this archive to be consumable by both someone
who wants to consume content in a stream or someone that just wants
to download a concrete JSON file.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 12:15:28AM +0000, Morgan Adamiec via aur-general wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/11/2021 22:31, Kevin Morris via aur-general wrote:
> > Hello AUR users,
> > 
> > In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new
> > archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC.
> > 
> > Pre-existing archives:
> > 
> > - packages.gz
> >     - Listing of all packages separated by line break.
> > - pkgbase.gz
> >     - Listing of all package bases separated by line break.
> > - users.gz
> >     - Listening of all users separated by line break.
> > 
> > Metadata archives:
> > 
> > - packages-meta-v1.json.gz
> >     - A complete `type=search` formatted JSON package archive.
> > - packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz
> >     - A complete `type=multiinfo` formatted JSON package archive.
> > 
> > All archives support Last-Modified and ETag. Each archive is updated
> > on a rough ~5 minute interval. For any bulk users of the RPC, we ask
> > that you consider these archives as a solution to repeated searches
> > or bulk multiinfo requests.
> > 
> > All archives are available for download at https://aur.archlinux.org/archive-name.gz
> > 
> > Using these archives will drastically help the AUR with the amount
> > of traffic required for API clients. Particularly with clients who
> > are able to query by themselves en masse.
> > 
> > We thank you all for contributing to the world of AUR and helping
> > those who can use your maintained software as a result.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Kevin
> > 
> 
> I see the metadata is in an array instead of NDJSON like I suggested.
> However Seems as the opening and closing array are on the first/last
> line I guess they could be trimmed out. Could I be safe doing this
> without the formatting changing?

-- 
Kevin Morris
Software Developer

Identities:
 - kevr @ Libera
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