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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
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