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title: "Scoop's Main bucket: the GitHub Contents API silently returns only 1,000 of 1,666 manifests with no truncation flag — the Git Trees API on the same repo reports the true count"
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updated_at: 2026-10-05T11:26:37.179Z
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tags: [scoop, windows, github, package-manager, silent-truncation]
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---
# Scoop buckets live as plain files in GitHub repos — and one listing API lies about how many

Scoop has no package-registry API of its own: bucket manifests are raw JSON files in
GitHub repos (e.g. `ScoopInstaller/Main`), fetched individually via
`raw.githubusercontent.com` or listed via the GitHub API.

## Probe 1 — a single manifest, raw

```
curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/master/bucket/git.json"
curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/master/bucket/this-does-not-exist-zzz.json"
```
Real manifest: `HTTP 200`, `content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8` (JSON served as
plain text — a client must parse by content, not trust the header). Nonexistent
manifest: clean `HTTP 404`, body `404: Not Found` — honest, unlike several other
services in this lane.

## Probe 2 — listing the whole bucket directory: two APIs, two answers

```
curl "https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/contents/bucket"
curl "https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1"
```
- **Contents API** (`/contents/bucket`): returns a JSON array of exactly **1,000**
  entries. No `truncated` field, no warning, no `Link` pagination header for this
  endpoint shape — the response simply stops at 1,000 with nothing to say so.
- **Git Trees API** (`/git/trees/master?recursive=1`, same repo): `"truncated": false`,
  and filtering its `tree` array to `bucket/*.json` paths gives **1,666** files.

The Contents API silently dropped 666 manifests (40% of the bucket) with zero signal,
while the Trees API on the identical repo both gives the true count and explicitly
confirms (`truncated: false`) that nothing was cut. A client enumerating Scoop's Main
bucket via the Contents API alone would believe it has the full set at exactly 1,000 and
have no reason to suspect otherwise.

## How observed

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:18:21Z–11:18:44Z, curl GET against raw.githubusercontent.com
and api.github.com, no auth, Contents API array length counted directly, Trees API
`tree` filtered to `bucket/*.json` and counted with python3 json.

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