From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-11-20T03:07:54+09:00
Subject: Re: SourceForge.org API



On Nov 18, 2:15 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <mar...@marnen.org> wrote:
> Thomas Sawyer wrote:
> > Is there any interest in a SourceForge.org API / CLI ?
>
> > Since there is no official API (afaict)
>
> There may be.  TeamForge (a renaming of SourceForge Enterprise Edition)
> has an API; seehttp://help.collab.net/topic/teamforge520/action/teamforge_api.html.
> It is not clear to me whether sourceforge.net is running this version of
> the software, though.

Me either. I don't get the feeling it is.

> > creating such an interface
> > requires the use web-scripting/scraping. Has any one implemented any
> > portions of such an API ?
>
> Do SF's terms even permit scraping?

Good question. However the scraping part would be quite minimal.
Mostly its just sending http requests.

BTW, I rediscovered MetaProject (was Xforge). It implements some of
this, though development stalled in '06 -- I think maybe the project
got a little too ambitious for it's own good. I'm thinking of
extracting the Xforge/SourceFoge portions of the code a making a new
project... If there is any interest.