Official repositories web interface

This article provides documentation for the web interface through which it is possible to query the official repositories and obtain results in JSON format.

Package information

Base URL: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/

Details

Syntax: /repository/architecture/package/json

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/coreutils/json/

Files

Syntax: /repository/architecture/package/files/json

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/coreutils/files/json/

Package search

The interface supports the same query parameters as the HTML search form, except for sort.

Base URL: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/json

Name or description

Parameter: q

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?q=pacman

Exact name

Parameter: name

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?name=coreutils

Description

Parameter:

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?desc=pacman

Repository

It is possible to use this parameter more than once in order to search in more than one repository (but note that omitting it altogether will search in all repositories).

Parameter:

Values: , , Testing, , Multilib-Testing, ,

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?q=cursor&repo=Community&repo=Extra

Architecture

It is possible to use this parameter more than once in order to search for more than one architecture (but note that omitting it altogether will search for all architectures).

Parameter:

Values: , ,

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?q=cursor&arch=any&arch=x86_64

Maintainer

Parameter:

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?repo=Community&maintainer=orphan

Packager

Parameter:

Flagged

Parameter: flagged

Values: ,

Example: https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?arch=x86_64&flagged=Flagged

See also

• Forum thread
• Initial feature request:
• Kittypack: A silly little tool to poke archlinux.org/packages for info