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diff --git a/archinstall/lib/packages.py b/archinstall/lib/packages.py
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+import urllib.request, urllib.parse
+import ssl, json
+
+BASE_URL = 'https://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?name={package}'
+
+def find_package(name):
+ """
+ Finds a specific package via the package database.
+ It makes a simple web-request, which might be a bit slow.
+ """
+ ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context()
+ ssl_context.check_hostname = False
+ ssl_context.verify_mode=ssl.CERT_NONE
+ response = urllib.request.urlopen(BASE_URL.format(package=name), context=ssl_context)
+ data = response.read().decode('UTF-8')
+ return json.loads(data)
+
+def find_packages(*names):
+ """
+ This function returns the search results for many packages.
+ The function itself is rather slow, so consider not sending to
+ many packages to the search query.
+ """
+ result = {}
+ for package in names:
+ result[package] = find_package(package)
+ return result \ No newline at end of file