Integrate with portscout about freshports HOT 4 OPEN

Are you happy to do the coding?

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That was just a question, not a requirement.

Can you help with some of the examples etc?

I looked at my own feed: https://portscout.freebsd.org/rss/[email protected]

I see port:portnamepy-hared</port:portname> but not the category for that port in a distinct field.

Parsing the XML shouldn't be too difficult.

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Possibly even easier than the RSS feeds; Portscout generates a dump.json file that is a large array of objects representing the ports with potential updates. Should be simpler to integrate since it's just a single file that doesn't need to be kept in sync with a list of maintainers.

Each object looks like:

    {
        "ver": "4.1.2",
        "name": "py-cbor2",
        "checked": "2021-05-17 04:18 GMT",
        "maintainer": "[email protected]",
        "newurl": "https://pypi.org/packages/source/c/cbor2/cbor2-5.2.0.tar.gz",
        "discovered": "2020-10-01 06:11:43.490839",
        "cat": "devel",
        "method": "G",
        "newver": "5.2.0",
        "updated": "2021-05-17 02:13 GMT"
    }

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I'm happy for anyone to take this over. Write it in the scripting language you prefer (we're already using perl, /bin/sh, and python in the backend). When you need to check or store a database value, I'll help you code that part.

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