Feature Request: Retrieve download link for package

[iskaleade]

It would be great if there was a way to not just download e.g. .tgz from NPM for a given package name & version but to also ouput the URL the package was downloaded from (for future reference / easy sharing etc.). I searched through the functions of OSSGadget already provided and could not find it (to stay with the NPM example: I do not mean the URL of the NPM page but the URL for the download - not GitHub, but the actual package).

Example: say I want to download the NPM package @fullstory/browser, Version 2.0.3. I can download the package using OSS-download. But if I want to share the location of the file I would have to figure out how the URL to https://registry.npmjs.org/ is structured, how they named the download etc.

Pretty sure the information is already there (?) (to perform the download) but it would be nice if it was also output for convenience.

Thanks!

[gfs]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I bet this is something we could include in the console output if that would meet your need.

[iskaleade]

That would be amazing and a great help! Thank you!

[gfs]

I looked into this a bit more, it looks like there is already a trace logging statement in the api that fetches the uri:

OSSGadget/src/Shared/PackageManagers/BaseProjectManager.cs

Line 111 in 4a24249

Logger.Trace("GetHttpStringCache({0}, {1})", uri, useCache);

, but it doesn't look like there is a command line parameter to enable trace logging. I think you should be able to enable it via an Nlog config file, but it seems like it would be nice to also have available as a command line switch.