Discover Amazing Open Source Code With the Freshmeat API

If you’re reading this, I probably don’t have to tell you about Freshmeat. This repository of open source code and projects has been around quite a while, and is used by a number of prominent projects. What you may not know, however, is that Freshmeat offers a well-designed Freshmeat API to help developers access the data on Freshmeat for any purpose that makes sense.

The API is RESTful, and accepts inputs in either JSON or XML. It requires an authentication token, which every active Freshmeat account already has. If you have an account already, get yours here. If not, make yourself an account, then go there. The API is completely free to use, and the only limitation is a request limit of 600 requests per hour.

For those who want even more simplicity, there’s a pretty good Perl library and a Ruby library for using the API. The documentation has a nice list of what one can access through the API:

    This API deals with data gathering and data entry for the following data types:

    Projects
    Comments
    Dependencies
    Project Filters
    Votings
    Releases
    Screenshots
    Subscriptions
    Tags
    URLs
    Search

Now, the question is, what would you build with it?

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