Get url of a package

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In this thread, Get url of package, the way of getting url of a package is provided.
However, the way cannot be used for Julia 1.x because of package manager change.
Is there a good way to get url of a package for Julia 1.x?

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I don’t think that this is exposed by the Registry API, but perhaps you can parse the relevant Package.toml file in the registry.

But why do you need this?

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Thank you.

But why do you need this?

I want to access the package repo from REPL sometimes. Maybe not only me: More hyperlinks · Issue #5509 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub

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Need to get the origin of the package for License compliance book-keeping. Anyone have an idea on how to easily pull the repo’s URL from the package info?

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Do you need it to be done in the REPL? It probably would be easier to do via JuliaHub

https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages

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You can get the license and more information about a package with PackageAnalyzer.jl, but the entry point is looking up the registry. It’s a TOML file and there is a TOML parser in Julia, that’s all what you need.

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Ok. I got it to work. Thank you.