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Get manifest only

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reading the existing get_bundles() and unzip() entry points to understand how bundle files are selected and downloaded. Add a get_manifests() option or equivalent that retrieves only manifest.json, and verify that large extraneous files are not downloaded.

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Description

Instead of get_bundles() can there be a function to get_manifests() or similar to unzip() as
get_bundles(..., files = "manifest.json")?

I frequently get asked about package versions used by different apps, especially for our in-house R packages. Some bundles are filled with extraneous or very large files and it can make downloading these bundles very slow.

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R
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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