Package Feeds
The binary produced by cmd/scheduled-feed/main.go can be used to monitor various package repositories for changes and publish data to external services for further processing.
Additionally, the repo contains a few subprojects to aid in the analysis of these open source packages, in particular to look for malicious software.
These are:
Feeds to watch package registries (PyPI, NPM, etc.) for changes to packages and to make that data available via a single standard interface.
Publisher provides the functionality to push package details from feeds towards external services such as GCP Pub/Sub.
This repo used to contain several other projects, which have since been split out into github.com/ossf/package-analysis.
The goal is for all of these components to work together and provide extensible, community-run infrastructure to study behavior of open source packages and to look for malicious software. We also hope that the components can be used independently, to provide package feeds or runtime behavior data for anyone interested.
Contributing
If you want to get involved or have ideas you'd like to chat about, we discuss this project in the OSSF Securing Critical Projects Working Group meetings.
See the Community Calendar for the schedule and meeting invitations.