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Timeline for CTAN : raw datas for user

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Jan 7, 2014 at 13:00 comment added Maïeul yes, that is why I was thinking. But I don't know if the CTAN gentlemen have time ...
Jan 7, 2014 at 12:51 comment added Paulo Cereda @Maïeul: Thanks! I wrote this humble code in 10 minutes, I guess. :) You are right, I retrieve data from the HTML page, parse and then serialize into an XML file, so if things change in the future, I might get into trouble. :) I think the best option is then kindly ask the CTAN gentlemen to include some sort of web service or even statically generated .json file with the author metadata.
Jan 7, 2014 at 12:00 comment added Maïeul that is a great think. Thanks very much. But, as I could see in the code, you take the information from the .html webpage, which structure could change. So I think it don't solve the main problem. A second point is that, in my case, I would like to make request automatically with PHP... so your tools is useful for local use, but not if we want to make automatically request.
Jan 7, 2014 at 1:33 history answered Paulo Cereda CC BY-SA 3.0