BSD Portsdaemonports API
The ports trees of the BSDs as JSON.
Every page of daemonports.org that has data has an index.json beside its
index.html, with the same path: /www/nginx/ is the page,
/www/nginx/index.json the API. The files are static, rebuilt with the
site every 30 minutes, so a request costs the server what a page does;
cache them, and send If-None-Match (nginx answers with an ETag).
FreeBSD's pages are at the site root (/www/nginx/), every other
system's under its own path (/openbsd/www/nginx/). A FreeBSD port and
another system's category therefore have paths of the same shape
(/www/nginx/, /openbsd/www/); kind in the answer says which it is.
Version 1 only grows: fields are added, never renamed or dropped. A field
the data lacks is null, never absent. Search is mddb's own API, which
the site's search page calls.
Version 1 · OpenAPI 3.1.0
Servers
/— This sitehttps://daemonports.org— Production
Endpoints
Index — Where to start, the systems and what is new.
| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /index.json |
The systems, new ports and the latest vulnerabilities |
Ports — One port of one system, with the same software in the others.
| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /{category}/{port}/index.json |
A FreeBSD port, or a category of another system |
| GET | /{system}/{category}/{port}/index.json |
A port of a system other than FreeBSD |
Compare — One piece of software across every system that packages it.
| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /compare/{name}/index.json |
One piece of software in every system that has it |
| GET | /freshness/index.json |
How far behind each system's ports are |
| GET | /freshness/{system}/index.json |
One system's ports by how long they have been behind |
Browse — Systems and their categories.
| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /{category}/{port}/index.json |
A FreeBSD port, or a category of another system |
| GET | /{section}/index.json |
A system other than FreeBSD, or a FreeBSD category |
Search — Full-text search and suggestions, answered by mddb.
| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | /v1/fts |
Search the ports of every system |
| GET | /v1/autocomplete |
Suggest port names as they are typed |
Data types: Schemas.