fake up an AUR RPC responder?

[Jelle van der Waa]

Hey,

On 15/06/2022 07:39, Greg Minshall via aur-dev wrote:
> hi.  i'm doing some coding around AUR, and appear to have gone over the
> daily limit (apologies for which).
> 
> i'm wondering if anyone knows of (or has) any simple code that would
> use, e.g., `packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz`, the AUR metadata pointed at
> here:
> ----
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2021-November/036659.html
> ----
> or any other information, to
> present a responder to the AUR RPC protocol?
> 
> to be clear: i don't want to mirror aur.archlinux.org, just the
> search/info from as described in
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Aurweb_RPC_interface so i can bang on
> it locally without consuming resources on aur.archlinux.org.

There is https://github.com/moson-mo/goaurrpc which you can try to run 
locally. It mimmicks the AUR API and fetches data from the metadata gz file.