Guix Package Search API Server

Guix Package Search API Server

[Sai Karthik]

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Hello everyone!, I was unable to find any API for querying guix package 
info on official guix website. So, I have created a very simple REST API 
server for searching/querying package info in Javascript. It parses the 
package info from https://guix.gnu.org/packages.json file & returns the 
results.

It currently uses Deno runtime to execute. I have just started learning 
guile, So, i will try to recreate this in guile as well, Once i am 
confident :)

Project URL:  https://gitlab.com/kskarthik/guix-packages-api

I have documented it's usage too. Feel free to explore it & let me know 
your thoughts!

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Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 15:50, Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone!, I was unable to find any API for querying guix package 
> info on official guix website. So, I have created a very simple REST API 
> server for searching/querying package info in Javascript. It parses the 
> package info from https://guix.gnu.org/packages.json file & returns the 
> results.

Maybe you could be interested by <https://hpc.guix.info/browse>.  Or by
<https://data.guix.gnu.org/revision/cc33f50d0e2a7835e99913226cb4c4b0e9e961ae/package/emacs/27.2>



Cheers,
simon

Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[Sai Karthik]

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Nice! I didn't knew about this earlier. Does hpc.guix.info exposes API ?

On 30/12/21 19:50, zimoun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 15:50, Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> wrote:
>> Hello everyone!, I was unable to find any API for querying guix package
>> info on official guix website. So, I have created a very simple REST API
>> server for searching/querying package info in Javascript. It parses the
>> package info from https://guix.gnu.org/packages.json file & returns the
>> results.
> 
> Maybe you could be interested by <https://hpc.guix.info/browse>.  Or by
> <https://data.guix.gnu.org/revision/cc33f50d0e2a7835e99913226cb4c4b0e9e961ae/package/emacs/27.2>
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> simon

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Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 22:33, Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> wrote:

> Nice! I didn't knew about this earlier. Does hpc.guix.info exposes API ?

I do not know.

Unrelated naive question, what is the aim to have an API for packages?


Cheers,
simon

Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[Sai Karthik]

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I have observed that debian provides a similar api 
https://sources.debian.org/doc/api/

On 30/12/21 23:23, zimoun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 22:33, Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> wrote:
> 
>> Nice! I didn't knew about this earlier. Does hpc.guix.info exposes API ?
> 
> I do not know.
> 
> Unrelated naive question, what is the aim to have an API for packages?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> simon

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Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> skribis:

> Nice! I didn't knew about this earlier. Does hpc.guix.info exposes API ?

It runs hpcguix-web¹, which exposes a big (but gzipped) JSON file at
<https://hpc.guix.info/packages.json>.  Everything else happens in
client-side JavaScript code.

Ludo’.

¹ https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/hpcguix-web

Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[Tissevert]

Hi,

This JSON file sounds nice and useful. By the way, it may only be a
transient error but the instance of hpcguix-web running at UMC Utrecht
mentioned in the github repos seems to be down
(https://hpcguix.op.umcutrecht.nl/). Is it supposed to be so ?

Tissevert

Le Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:27:56 +0100,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :

> Hi!
> 
> Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> skribis:
> 
> > Nice! I didn't knew about this earlier. Does hpc.guix.info exposes
> > API ?  
> 
> It runs hpcguix-web¹, which exposes a big (but gzipped) JSON file at
> <https://hpc.guix.info/packages.json>.  Everything else happens in
> client-side JavaScript code.
> 
> Ludo’.
> 
> ¹ https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/hpcguix-web
> 

Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[Roel Janssen]

On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 08:38 +0100, Tissevert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This JSON file sounds nice and useful. By the way, it may only be a
> transient error but the instance of hpcguix-web running at UMC Utrecht
> mentioned in the github repos seems to be down
> (https://hpcguix.op.umcutrecht.nl/). Is it supposed to be so ?
> 
> Tissevert
> 

I can comment on that because I worked at UMC Utrecht and set this particular instance up.
It only responds to certain IP addresses (those within the IP range of UMC Utrecht).

So this is normal.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen

Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[Sai Karthik]

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You could also obtain the json file from https://guix.gnu.org/packages.json

On 05/01/22 13:08, Tissevert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This JSON file sounds nice and useful. By the way, it may only be a
> transient error but the instance of hpcguix-web running at UMC Utrecht
> mentioned in the github repos seems to be down
> (https://hpcguix.op.umcutrecht.nl/). Is it supposed to be so ?
> 
> Tissevert
> 
> Le Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:27:56 +0100,
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> skribis:
>>
>>> Nice! I didn't knew about this earlier. Does hpc.guix.info exposes
>>> API ?
>>
>> It runs hpcguix-web¹, which exposes a big (but gzipped) JSON file at
>> <https://hpc.guix.info/packages.json>.  Everything else happens in
>> client-side JavaScript code.
>>
>> Ludo’.
>>
>> ¹ https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/hpcguix-web
>>
> 

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Re: Guix Package Search API Server

[Tissevert]

I see. Thank you very much for this piece of information ! And I'm
relieved to know everything is fine with the UMC Utrecht instance.

Le Fri, 7 Jan 2022 00:13:40 +0530,
Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> a écrit :

> You could also obtain the json file from
> https://guix.gnu.org/packages.json
> 
> On 05/01/22 13:08, Tissevert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This JSON file sounds nice and useful. By the way, it may only be a
> > transient error but the instance of hpcguix-web running at UMC
> > Utrecht mentioned in the github repos seems to be down
> > (https://hpcguix.op.umcutrecht.nl/). Is it supposed to be so ?
> > 
> > Tissevert
> > 
> > Le Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:27:56 +0100,
> > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
> >   
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Sai Karthik <kskarthik@disroot.org> skribis:
> >>  
> >>> Nice! I didn't knew about this earlier. Does hpc.guix.info exposes
> >>> API ?  
> >>
> >> It runs hpcguix-web¹, which exposes a big (but gzipped) JSON file
> >> at <https://hpc.guix.info/packages.json>.  Everything else happens
> >> in client-side JavaScript code.
> >>
> >> Ludo’.
> >>
> >> ¹ https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/hpcguix-web
> >>  
> >   
>