[Haskell-cafe] Hackage upload log

[Michael Snoyman]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 14:32 +0300, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > There used to be a log of Hackage uploads available at [1], but "it's
> just
> > > not here" anymore. Has that content moved to a different URL? Or is
> there
> > > some new way to get that information? I'd like to know the upload
> dates of
> > > every package. I could definitely screenscrape fro the date on the
> package
> > > listing pages, but I was hoping for something a bit more elegant.
> > >
> > > [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/log
> > >
> >
> > Just in case anyone else needs something like this, I ended up hacking
> > together a quick screen scraper, though it would be nice if this was
> > available via an API:
>
>
> > ...
> >     withResponse ("http://hackage.haskell.org/package/conduit-1.1.0") $
> > ...
>
> It is available directly at:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/conduit-1.1.0/upload-time
> and you may also be interested in
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/conduit-1.1.0/uploader
>
>
> How would you know this exists? The whole API is automatically (if not
> brilliantly) documented:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/api
> (which itself is mentioned on the front page)
>
> The goal has always been that all the info be publicly available in
> human and machine readable formats (at least JSON). There are certainly
> things missing, but we'll accept patches that exposes more stuff.
>
> Duncan
>
>

Thanks, I looked through that page, but somehow missed the upload-time call.

It would still be convenient to have the entire upload history in a single
page available, but this will provide what I need for now. Thank you!

Michael
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