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Matt - sanemat
Matt - sanemat

Reputation: 5618

How to get all Gems names via web?

https://rubygems.org/api/v1/search.json provides only 30 gems, but in my local machine I can get all gems using gem list --remote.

I read http://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api/ , and an API which can get all gems in the list does not exist. How can I get the list via the web? Or, does anyone provide this?

I want the gem's name at a minimum but, if possible, I want to get the name and version.

I think gem list --remote is via web, so I can get all gem lists.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 256

Answers (2)

mechanicalfish
mechanicalfish

Reputation: 12826

You could use https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz which returns gzipped marshal dumped array like this:

[["abscss", Gem::Version.new("0.0.1"), "ruby"],
["absee", Gem::Version.new("1.0"), "ruby"],
["absentee_camper", Gem::Version.new("0.0.7"), "ruby"],
["absgit", Gem::Version.new("0.3.0"), "ruby"],
["absinthe", Gem::Version.new("0.0.3"), "ruby"],
["absolute", Gem::Version.new("0.0.5"), "ruby"],
["AbsoluteRenamer", Gem::Version.new("1.1.2"), "ruby"],
["AbsoluteRenamer-date", Gem::Version.new("0.1.0"), "ruby"]]

But if you're in Ruby, I strongly recommend using the gem fetcher:

require 'rubygems/spec_fetcher'
fetcher = Gem::SpecFetcher.fetcher
tuples = fetcher.detect(:released) { true }

tuples is now an array of tuples of [Gem::NameTuple, Gem::Remote]. Some examples of what you can do with this:

tuples[1337][0].name # => GraphvizR
tuples[1337][0].version.to_s # => "0.1.0"

Upvotes: 12

Jon Cairns
Jon Cairns

Reputation: 11951

You can provide the page query parameter to paginate through the list, e.g.:

https://rubygems.org/api/v1/search.json?query=main&page=2

Upvotes: 1

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