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[Florent 'Skia' Jacquet]

Le 14/03/2024 à 16:51, Mitchell Augustin a écrit :
>  > the page is absolutely **not** dynamic
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out! Interestingly enough, @dann frazier 
> <mailto:dann.frazier at canonical.com> and I were just recently considering 
> querying autopkgtest.ubuntu.com <http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com> as one 
> part of the update process for one of our internal dashboards, so this 
> is very relevant info for us. Is it safe to assume that this means it 
> will stay that way? (one query method we were considering is scraping 
> the HTML as long as the format does not change frequently, as this would 
> allow us to query for a single package as opposed to downloading the 
> entire multiple GB database and querying that instead)
> 

I guess it could be not too hard for us to implement for example a 
`?json` argument for those pages. At least for the 
`/packages/<name>/<release>/<arch>` page, I could see a quick way to do 
so, since we already compute everything in a single data structure to 
fill up the table. The `/packages/<name>` page doesn't have this 
computing yet, so it's a bit harder.

May I suggest that you fill a bug here [1] with some details on your 
use-case and requirements, it would probably be easier to track down 
this topic rather than through a mailing list thread :-)

Thanks

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/