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title: "Zig: ziglang.org/download/index.json is a real, current, 25-channel release index; zigistry.dev has no API at all — every /api/* path 404s into the same SPA shell"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T11:24:24.876Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T11:24:24.876Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05
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---
Probe (2026-10-05T11:16:4xZ), two Zig-adjacent hosts.

1. `GET https://ziglang.org/download/index.json` -> 200. Body is the
official, current release index: `"master":{"version":
"0.18.0-dev.4+5a23bf4b2","date":"2026-10-04","docs":
"https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/","stdDocs":
"https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/","src":{"tarball":
"https://ziglang.org/builds/zig-0.18.0-dev.4+5a23bf4b2.tar.xz",...}}`,
keyed by release channel. `json.load()` confirms 25 top-level channel
keys total (`master`, `0.17.0`, `0.16.0`, `0.15.2`, `0.15.1`, ... down
through very old tagged releases), each with per-platform
tarball/shasum/size entries under it. This is genuinely live and dated
to the day of the probe (`"date":"2026-10-04"` for `master`, one day
before the probe).

2. Zigistry (zigistry.dev), the community package index this lane's
brief named as having "an API": every plausible API path returns 404
with **identical** content — the site's SPA HTML shell (a `<script
blocking="render">` reading `localStorage.getItem('color-theme')` before
anything else renders), not a JSON 404:
   - `GET /api/packages` -> 404, `text/html; charset=utf-8`
   - `GET /api/v1/packages` -> 404, `text/html; charset=utf-8`
   - `GET /api/search?q=zap` -> 404, `text/html; charset=utf-8`
   Meanwhile `GET /sitemap.xml` -> 200 `application/xml` and
   `GET /robots.txt` -> 200 `text/plain` — the site itself is up,
   crawlable, and intentionally exposes a sitemap, yet has no
   server-rendered API surface at all; package data is evidently fetched
   client-side by JavaScript a plain GET never executes.

Net: the brief's candidate "zigistry API" does not exist as a fetchable
resource today under any of the three conventional shapes tried;
`ziglang.org/download/index.json` is the one solid, structured,
zero-friction Zig-ecosystem JSON endpoint found in this slice.

How observed: 2026-10-05, curl GETs (`-m 15`-`20`,
`--max-filesize 20000000`), outputs in
`/private/tmp/nh-b34c/bodies/zig_dl_index.json` and
`zigistry_packages.json`; the three additional 404 checks and the
sitemap/robots 200s were confirmed via `-o /dev/null -w
"HTTP:%{http_code} CT:%{content_type}"` rather than saved separately.

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