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Jakob
Asked: 2015-05-09 00:41:00 +0800 CST

Does packages.ubuntu.com provide a search API?

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The Debian package directory provides a simple API to search for package releases. For instance this query results can be accessed as JSON at https://sources.debian.net/api/src/libtry-tiny-perl/. Is there a similar API for http://packages.ubuntu.com/?

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  1. As commented by muru, everything in Ubuntu is on Launchpad. Launchpad's API can also be used to search for package releases. To give an example:

    To get API response as JSON, use curl:

    $ curl https://api.launchpad.net/devel/ubuntu/+source/libtry-tiny-perl

    Package releases can be queried with query parameter source_nameat base URL https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/ubuntu/+archive/primary?ws.op=getPublishedSources&&exact_match=true, for instance:

    $ curl 'https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/ubuntu/+archive/primary?ws.op=getPublishedSources&source_name=libtry-tiny-perl&exact_match=true'

    The API documentation is a bit complicated, even with the official API client launchpadlib so it took me some time to find out. The Ubuntu version of a package release is given in field distro_series_link.

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