Is there a drupal.org API for retrieving the list of available modules, a description of them and available versions?
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There is no such API or mechanism at this time.
There is talk about extending Drush to support a Search functionality: https://drupal.org/node/1389460
But that's after a database of dependencies is created for all modules and stored in a binary-ish form fetchable by Drush: https://drupal.org/node/1299332
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1Can't help but mention that I made a really simple drush search extension: drupal.org/sandbox/Letharion/1833420 – Letharion Mar 20 '14 at 15:46
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changed the answer to the one just submitted by pcambra as it the up to date one now.. – vfclists Jan 21 '15 at 8:03
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Turns out there is a big machine-readable list of Drupal projects available here:
http://updates.drupal.org/release-history/project-list/all
Warning: Very large. :-)
Courtesy of this comment, which also tells you a URL pattern to crawl for release information: https://groups.drupal.org/node/65023#comment-204808
I wish there were good documentation about the availability of other such easter eggs.
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There's an issue to Expose list of projects to external services (via JSON, XML, etc). That issue ended up providing a tsv file with a list of all stable releases (no -dev) for all projects in drupal.org. The list is generated each 4 hours, after http://updates.drupal.org/release-history/project-list/all is regenerated.
https://drupal.org/files/releases.tsv (~4MB)
The rationale for this file is in comment #88 if the linked issue.
modulestoprojectsis a common mistake. Projects are compound of modules (or themes, or install profiles,...). – jonhattan Jun 29 '14 at 9:28