Freshermeat is an open source software directory and release tracker. Main functionalities are the following:
- tracking of software releases, vulnerabilities (CVE) and news;
- subscribe to releases of a project or an organization via an ATOM feed;
- JSON-based API in order to manages projects, releases, CVEs, etc. and documented with Swagger;
- management of organizations.
Freshermeat instance for tracking security-oriented projects: https://open-source-security-software.net
$ sudo apt install postgresql npm$ git clone https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/freshermeat
$ cd freshermeat/
$ poetry install
$ poetry shell
(freshermeat) $ npm install
(freshermeat) $ export APPLICATION_SETTINGS=development.py
(freshermeat) $ flask db_create
(freshermeat) $ flask db_init
(freshermeat) $ flask create_admin --login <login> --password <password>
(freshermeat) $ flask import_osi_approved_licenses
(freshermeat) $ flask run --debug
* Debug mode: on
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment. Use a production WSGI server instead.
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000
Press CTRL+C to quit
* Restarting with stat
* Debugger is active!
* Debugger PIN: 315-271-316You can configure the application in instance/development.py or create
your own file and export it in the variable APPLICATION_SETTINGS.
Workers are located in the folder freshermeat/workers/ and can be launched periodically with cron.
$ poetry run flask fetch_cves$ poetry run flask fetch_releases$ poetry run flask fetch_newsThis software is licensed under GNU Affero General Public License version 3
Copyright (C) 2017-2024 Cédric Bonhomme