wine users - Jan 2013 - WineHQ Web API?

Hi Wine users & developers!
First of all, thank you for the awesome work for the decades of Wine 
development. :)

I'm writing right now a little app to get my list of Steam games list, and 
determine which of them could be ran on Wine, and I have a little trouble 
with WineHQ web site.
The only way to get game page, as I see now, is to use google custom search, 
which is ugly and not universal. Is there any other way to get my app id, its
status, etc by its name? May be some web api not mentioned on wine wiki or 
anything?

Thank you for your answers,
Mikhail



P.s. when answering, please add me to Cc: or to To: field, because I'm not a
subscriber of Wine-Users mailing list.
P.s.s If I'm inventing the wheel, please point me at any ready-to-use
solutions.

Hi!
Thank you for your answer.
It is not, script is (almost) ready for me.
However, parsing of HTML directly is ugly, inefficient and buggy
In some cases, you won't be able to pick up exact application you want with
100%
confidence without fetching some pages & over-bloated HTML parsing (e.g.:
instead
of getting exact info I need I get 200% more and need to cut the needed part).
Any ways API (or such a service under appdb.winehq.org site) would have been
nice.

P.s. you forgot to add wine-users@ to Cc:
:)



On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 09:41:40AM -0500, Seth Jenkins
wrote:
> It would not be difficult to write a Linux script to do so, I think.
>

Yes, I agree, it would have been nice :)

Although, I would suggest that instead of making your script really bogged
down with  removing data, to just use head and tail to isolate what you
need. Or, since these words are only likely to appear once in the app page,
and not anywhere else, you could just search for the words gold, platinum,
silver, bronze, garbage, etc. using grep.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Mikhail Krutov <neko at takino.org>
wrote:
> Hi!
> Thank you for your answer.
> It is not, script is (almost) ready for me.
> However, parsing of HTML directly is ugly, inefficient and buggy
> In some cases, you won't be able to pick up exact application you want
> with 100%
> confidence without fetching some pages & over-bloated HTML parsing
(e.g.:
> instead
> of getting exact info I need I get 200% more and need to cut the needed
> part).
> Any ways API (or such a service under appdb.winehq.org site) would have
> been nice.
>
> P.s. you forgot to add wine-users@ to Cc:
> :)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 09:41:40AM -0500, Seth Jenkins wrote:
> > It would not be difficult to write a Linux script to do so, I think.
> >
>


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