DUB packages announce Telegram bot

[Seb]

On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 08:41:36 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:59:11 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:49:00 UTC, Denis Feklushkin 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I also made a tool which periodically monitors code.dlang.org 
>>> for new packages and a notifies its Telegram subscribers.
>>>
>>> To subscribe just write something to @dlang_announce_bot
>>> Also it can be added to groups.
>>>
>>> Code: https://github.com/denizzzka/paper_plane_bot
>>
>> Cool!
>> BTW any reason why you parse the HTML and not use the JSON 
>> index?
>
> As I know, code.dlang.org provides JSON package list without 
> any additional info. Thus, it is need to parse every package 
> separately by calling https://code.dlang.org/packages/*.json to 
> get packages versions, and it is need to do for every registerd 
> package.

Hmm, I just wanted to point out that in the time it took you to 
write the HTML parser, you could have added an API method to the 
registry:

https://github.com/dlang/dub-registry/blob/master/source/dubregistry/api.d

I created an issue, s.t. this isn't lost in the NG space:

https://github.com/dlang/dub-registry/issues/326

Oh and the reason why I point out that parsing the HTML isn't 
ideal, it's because it might change soon, e.g.

https://github.com/dlang/dub-registry/pull/303