From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philippe Ombredanne Subject: How to get the package metadata as structured data? Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 20:37:30 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVNX3-0007vy-Bd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:38:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVNX1-0005sb-BI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:38:12 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::234]:35894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVNX1-0005sW-6c for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:38:11 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-x234.google.com with SMTP id x130so3097014ite.1 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 11:38:11 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Is there a way to get all the package metadata as pure data beside the html page [1] or the Guile sources [2]? Like some JSON of sorts or similar? That would be somewhat needed to audit the licenses asserted in the metadata and compare them with actually detected licenses. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/ [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/linux.scm -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne