Is there a way to get list of all available projects on google code?

Question

Like in title, I would like to fetch a list of all available projects on Google Code, best if it can be list + project short description, only this, nothing more is needed.

Is it can be done in an automatic way?

Answer 1

You can list hosted projects via category (platform), and/or further drill down with a search, at the link below.

Google Code Project Hosting

Answer 2

The FLOSSmole project collects and publishes monthly data about all Google Code projects.

A listing of project info including project name and project summary is available. For example here is a link to the dataset for November 2011:

• http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/detail?name=gcProjectInfo2011-Nov.txt.bz2

The file format is one project per line, with tab-delimited fields. The first field is the project name and the 8th field is the project summary. So assuming you use wget to grab the file...

wget http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/detail?name=gcProjectInfo2011-Nov.txt.bz2
bunzip2 gcProjectInfo2011-Nov.txt.bz2
cut -f 1,8 gcProjectInfo2011-Nov.txt

A couple of notes:

1. Google Code has over 200,000 projects, so even in summary form, this is a lot of data!
2. Obviously this is a snapshot of Google Code projects, not a live, real-time listing. I'm not sure if one exists.