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Debian Data Export (DDE)

DDE, Debian Data Export, is a system to make it easy to publish data.

DDE is not operational at the moment and looking for a new home.

Getting started, quick & dirty

DDE publishes Debian information so that you can easily see what is available and get the data that you need in a variety of formats.

The quickest way to discover DDE is to visit one DDE site and browse around: every DDE setup is self-documenting, and has instruction on how to use it. Try for example have a look at http://dde.debian.net/dde/

Information about DDE

Enrico's talk at FOSDEM 2009: slides, video, and blog post.
Tutorial: Tutorial showing DDE in more detail
Static data: How to share data files from your Debian home directory (currently disabled as it was not used)
Plugin writing: How to write a DDE plugin

List of existing DDE setups

http://dde.debian.net/dde/
- Data from UDD
- Data published by developers in their home directories
- Fast apt-file search
http://debtags.debian.net/dde
- Debtags data
- Data from apt-xapian-index

Softwares/sites using DDE

rapt-file (apt-file plugin)
screenshots.d.o (due to unresolved timeout problems when getting large amounts of data it's currently using the APT-get'able repository information directly)
http://neuro.debian.net (querying package information and combining with Debian Blends task information)
Debian website hit counts used for sorting page lists at Debian website translation statistics page

Other resources

Git repository