An example of searching for packages against the new fedora-packages app

search-example.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pprint
import json
import urllib

BASE_URL = "https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/" + \
        "fcomm_connector/xapian/query/search_packages/"

query_params = {
    "filters": {"search": "awesome"},
    "rows_per_page": 10,
    "start_row": 0,
}

query_as_json = json.dumps(query_params)

URL = BASE_URL + query_as_json

response_as_json = urllib.urlopen(URL).read()

response = json.loads(response_as_json)

pprint.pprint(response)