Apologies; I misspoke -- This is the first I'm hearing about NDJSON. However, we would like this archive to be consumable by both someone who wants to consume content in a stream or someone that just wants to download a concrete JSON file.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 12:15:28AM +0000, Morgan Adamiec via aur-general wrote: > > > On 10/11/2021 22:31, Kevin Morris via aur-general wrote: > > Hello AUR users, > > > > In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new > > archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC. > > > > Pre-existing archives: > > > > - packages.gz > > - Listing of all packages separated by line break. > > - pkgbase.gz > > - Listing of all package bases separated by line break. > > - users.gz > > - Listening of all users separated by line break. > > > > Metadata archives: > > > > - packages-meta-v1.json.gz > > - A complete `type=search` formatted JSON package archive. > > - packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz > > - A complete `type=multiinfo` formatted JSON package archive. > > > > All archives support Last-Modified and ETag. Each archive is updated > > on a rough ~5 minute interval. For any bulk users of the RPC, we ask > > that you consider these archives as a solution to repeated searches > > or bulk multiinfo requests. > > > > All archives are available for download at > > https://aur.archlinux.org/archive-name.gz > > > > Using these archives will drastically help the AUR with the amount > > of traffic required for API clients. Particularly with clients who > > are able to query by themselves en masse. > > > > We thank you all for contributing to the world of AUR and helping > > those who can use your maintained software as a result. > > > > Regards, > > Kevin > > > > I see the metadata is in an array instead of NDJSON like I suggested. > However Seems as the opening and closing array are on the first/last > line I guess they could be trimmed out. Could I be safe doing this > without the formatting changing? -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera
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