API and NuGet packages

[Guest]

Hi,

We're using the API to find out about packages and versions hosted in our various feeds. I looked through the API docs, but I didn't see a what to retrieve a package's ID in a NuGet feed based on the package name. How should we go about retrieving package IDs?

Thanks,
Joel

Product: ProGet
Version: 3.7.3

[Guest]

The api documentation on Inedo.com is a little outdated; visit /reference/api in your proget instance for the documentation.

Keep in mind, the "name" field is "display name", and thus is not indexed or searchable directly. You would use [NuGetPackages_GetPackages] method, then filter by name based on the result set.

[Guest]

Thanks, Alana. That's not clear based on the documentation, which mentions ways to get package info from the /api/json endpoint.

To access the nuget API endpoint, do I need to create a connector?

When I access the following, I'm told it doesn't exist:
http://(nugetserver)/api/json/nuget/Promoted?API_Key=12345
(where Promoted is the name of one of our feeds)
If this isn't the correct endpoint, what form might it take?

Thanks.

[Guest]

I was mistaken; I've updated the answer above!

[Guest]

Got it. So I query
http://(proget server)/api/json/NuGetPackages_GetPackages?API_Key=12345&Feed_Id=123

to get JSON for all the packages on the feed, along with their IDs and filter as needed.

Cool. Thanks.

[Guest]

Actually, one more comment re: this. It appears that the package ID is synonymous with its name. I thought there was a separate ID value.

When I grabbed all packages and versions and tried to serialize in PowerShell, it failed due to the size of the content, so it was good to discover that I can query for the specific package name/ID.