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Querying the CTAN with JSON

The CTAN provides mean to access the database and retrieve the information in form of JSON responses. Several entities can be queried.

  1. The list of packages can be obtained under the URL http://www.ctan.org/json/2.0/packages
  2. Extract the key from the above list and obtain detailed information about the package using that key.
  3. The information about a single package can be obtained under the URL like http://www.ctan.org/json/2.0/pkg/{key}

Getting detailed information of all packages using the above method is very slow. Therefore, use ofanin to speed it up.