On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Michael Snoyman
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.
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: {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} import Text.XML.Cursor import Text.HTML.DOM (sinkDoc) import Network.HTTP.Client.Conduit import Data.Conduit import Control.Monad.IO.Class import qualified Data.Text as T import Data.Time import System.Locale main = withManager $ do withResponse ("http://hackage.haskell.org/package/conduit-1.1.0") $ \res -> do doc <- responseBody res $$ sinkDoc let uploadDate = fromDocument doc $// element "th" >=> hasContent "Upload date" >=> followingSibling &/ content liftIO $ print (parseTime defaultTimeLocale "%c" $ T.unpack $ T.concat uploadDate :: Maybe UTCTime) hasContent t c = if T.concat (c $// content) == t then [c] else []