Querying the CTAN with JSON
API version 1.2
The CTAN provides mean to access the database and retrieve the information in form of JSON responses. Several entities can be queried.
The queries can be sent to the portal in form of a HTTP GET or POST request with some parameters. The response has the JSON as body. The request URL and parameters as well as the response are described on the detail pages.
There is an related feature for retrieving XML. See Querying CTAN with XML for details.
- Note:
- This is an experimental feature and might be developed further in the future. The interface is versioned and incompatible changes are likely to go with a new version number.
Change Log
Version 1.2
- Contact channels added to package: support, bugs, announce, repository, development.
- Attributes female and died added to author information.