Now all packages, including those without exposed modules, are included. Also, I've attempted to parse the author lists into JSON arrays. Due to the free format of many fields in the .cabal package descriptions, including author list, there are many exceptional cases where they are ill-parsed, but at least the JSON file is well-formed and validates at jsonlint.com. Once more: JSON Schema: http://www.fremissant.net/portackage/packages.schema.json.txt Hopefully compressed JSON data: http://www.fremissant.net/portackage/packages.php Raw JSON data in case the compressed doesn't work: http://www.fremissant.net/portackage/packages.json The hackage data updated as of yesterday (June 14). Will work on daily incremental updates from Hackage RSS feed soon. -Andrew On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Andrew Seniuk wrote:

I discovered http://jsonlint.com/ and got it to validate. :)

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Andrew Seniuk wrote:

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Hi ___,

Thank you for your suggestion to provide JSON, which seconds Derek's earlier suggestion. I have anonymised your name since you wrote to me but didn't CC the list. :)

As much as I wish the web interface was up to snuff, it is really too slow. While I continue to try to resolve that, there is something like a JSON feed available now. I'm new to these things and may be doing it wrong. Any advice would be appreciated, either in accelerating the web interface or in providing the JSON. I have no idea whether it parses or not.

JSON Schema: http://www.fremissant.net/portackage/packages.schema.json.txt

Hopefully compressed JSON data: http://www.fremissant.net/portackage/packages.php

Raw JSON data in case the compressed doesn't work: http://www.fremissant.net/portackage/packages.json

The hackage data updated as of today (June 14).

For now this is only the packages which expose modules (i.e. not including binary packages). No particular reason, I just ran out of time this afternoon and thought I'd post what I've got.

The fields present in the JSON are those available on the HTML table version. There are several dozen other fields which come up more or less infrequently in the Hackage packages, and they could all be included. The complete list of modules is included (rather than the summary versions used in the HTML table version).

A next step would be for the server to incrementally update the JSON data based on the Hackage RSS feed.

Kind Regards, Andrew

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Hi Andrew

Portackage is a great site for browsing packages, but it's really really slow for filtering per column. What about offering an additional non-javascript version of the pages -- searching with plain text in a browser works quite well.

On 4/30/12, Andrew Seniuk wrote:

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Oops, the three links in summary are:

module tree: http://fremissant.net/portackage/modules.php library packages: http://fremissant.net/portackage/portackage.php other packages: http://fremissant.net/portackage/binary.php

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