Re: How to get the package metadata as structured data?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

David Craven <address@hidden> skribis:

> All package metadata can be accessed easily through scheme. There is
> no way to export this data currently, although it probably wouldn't be
> too hard to implement.

One way is:

  guix package -s .

which returns a recutils database¹, which is essentially plain text.

Alternately we could write a snippet to export it as JSON if you prefer.

Ludo’.

¹ https://gnu.org/s/recutils/manual/html_node/The-Rec-Format.html