🚀 Developing a GUI for Scoop

[gihanrangana]

Hi everyone 👋,

I'm currently building a GUI application for Scoop as a fun side project. 🎨

While exploring the Scoop ecosystem, I found the following endpoint:

https://scoopsearch.search.windows.net/indexes/apps/docs/search?api-version=2020-06-30

From what I can tell, this API appears to return information related to available buckets rather than package manifests themselves.

My current approach is:

📦 Use Scoop CLI commands for install, update, uninstall, etc.
📄 Read package manifests directly from GitHub repositories when package details are needed.
🔍 Potentially use the search API to discover/search buckets.

Before I continue, I'd like to know:

1. Is this API considered stable and acceptable for community applications?
2. Is there a recommended way to discover/search buckets programmatically?
3. Are there any plans for an official API that GUI applications should use instead?

This is purely a community/fun project and is not intended to be an official Scoop client. 😊

🖼️ Sample UI attached below.

Any feedback or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! 🙏