x/tools/godoc/dl: provide a JSON feed of Go releases

[zachgersh]

Currently there seems to be no programmatic way I can consume a list of releases / checksums when a new release is published (especially relevant for CVEs).

It would be great if there was a JSON feed (or some other mechanism) that would allow users to determine what the latest release download links / checksums were.

Unsure what sort of URL this would be presented of off but I could imagine something like GET https://golang.org/dl/releases.json

[bradfitz]

I thought we had a bug about this, but maybe not. In any case, this came up somewhere and we agreed it as a good idea. It should be simple to add too, if you want to send a change to golang.org/x/tools/godoc/dl/dl.go

[zachgersh]

@bradfitz - sounds great, I'll get around to this during the weekend. Any thoughts on the releases.json URL? Could probably just be /releases

[bradfitz]

I don't care much. We use ?mode=json for https://build.golang.org/?mode=json though.

[zachgersh]

PR here: golang/tools#21

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/93080 mentions this issue: godoc/dl: provide JSON feed of releases