On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael@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:

{-# 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 []