Re: [directory-discuss] Machine readable dump of Free Software Directory

[Andrew Engelbrecht]

On 03/13/2018 10:17 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to support Free Software Directory in https://repology.org, a
> service which tracks packages versions across hundreds of repositories.
> This will both allow to enrich Repology with another source of verified
> information on free software projects, and to keep Directory more up to
> date by detecting outdated information.

That sounds great! :D Repology sounds like a cool project.

> I need a machine readable dump for FSD for this purpose, as scrapping
> and parsing individual wiki pages does not look viable. Something like
> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/All, but in XML/JSON and with additional
> version column would be sufficient. Is something like that possible?

We do indeed have such a database dump here:

http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/directory/directory.xml
http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/directory/directory.xml.bz2

Thanks, :)
Andrew

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