# FOSSASIA-Web/api.fossasia.net

FOSSASIA API

Repository: https://github.com/FOSSASIA-Web/api.fossasia.net
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/apifossasianet
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2019-01-11T03:49:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4301, "days_push": 2791, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1536, forks 8 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:59.888848+00:00)

## What it is
FOSSASIA API is a decentralized metadata API for open source communities and hackspaces across Asia, based on the Hackerspace/Freifunk API model. Communities host their own JSON files following a defined spec, which the project aggregates into a directory, feed merger, community map, and events timeline.

## Use cases
- aggregate metadata about open source communities in Asia
- generate an API-compliant JSON file describing my community
- build a map of hackspaces and community locations
- merge RSS blog feeds from multiple communities
- collect decentralized community contact and event data

## When to choose
- you want decentralized, self-hosted community metadata rather than a central database
- you need a directory, feed aggregator, or community map for FOSS groups
- you want to register an Asian open source community in a shared directory

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose REST API framework for your own app
- you need a node or firmware database for community networks
- you need actively maintained software - the last release was in 2019

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: api-framework, json, web-scraping, data-visualization
- domain: apis, self-hosted, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: community-directory, decentralized-metadata, hackerspaces, rss-aggregation, community-map, community, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- FOSSASIA-Web/api.fossasia.net (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.888848+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:03.008583+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FOSSASIA-Web/api.fossasia.net (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.888848+00:00, sha 4a35816e707c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.