rfcsearch

rfcsearch

RFC search results in JSON format.

This is an API server written in Go that passes search parameters to RFC Editor's search page and returns the results in JSON format. It takes advantage of PuerkitoBio's excellent goquery package to parse the HTML results page and gather data for each RFC.

A live version is currently running on Heroku at https://rfcsearch.herokuapp.com/

Queries are made on either keywords or RFC numbers. A query containing only numbers is assumed to be the RFC itself and returns only that RFC. If any characters appear in the query then keywords and titles will be searched.

Title / Keyword search

$ curl -s "https://rfcsearch.herokuapp.com/?q=coffee" | json_pp
[
   {
      "title" : "The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)",
      "number" : "7168",
      "link" : "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7168",
      "authors" : "I. Nazar",
      "date" : "1 April 2014",
      "status" : "Informational",
      "moreinfo" : "Updates RFC 2324"
   },

...

RFC search

$ curl -s "https://rfcsearch.herokuapp.com/?q=4492" | json_pp
[
   {
      "number" : "4492",
      "status" : "Informational",
      "date" : "May 2006",
      "authors" : "S. Blake-Wilson, N. Bolyard, V. Gupta, C. Hawk, B. Moeller",
      "title" : "Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)",
      "link" : "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4492",
      "moreinfo" : "Updated by RFC 5246, RFC 7027, Errata"
   }
]