Nixbuild.net now has an HTTP API

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We’ve launched an API for nixbuild.net!

Authentication is based on the awesome Datalog-powered Biscuit tokens.

Here’s a usage example (API reference docs):

$ curl -s \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://api.nixbuild.net/builds?derivation_path=/nix/store/dkrh838n9rkc6xwjd9diimhssihfx5rx-snix-qemu-6.1.0.drv" \
  | jq .

[
  {
    "build_id": 805823,
    "create_time": "2022-08-19T07:33:16.069456Z",
    "start_time": "2022-08-19T07:33:17.53853Z",
    "queue_time_seconds": 1.469074,
    "duration_seconds": 459.689893,
    "status": "built",
    "status_message": "",
    "cpu_count": 4,
    "allocated_megabytes": 6270,
    "cpu_seconds": 1839,
    "peak_memory_use_kilobytes": 1648064,
    "peak_storage_use_kilobytes": 2157808,
    "derivation_path": "/nix/store/dkrh838n9rkc6xwjd9diimhssihfx5rx-snix-qemu-6.1.0.drv",
    "outputs": [
      {
        "name": "out",
        "path": "/nix/store/f00405bw7avnd5asafvvq4dgh6y33brc-snix-qemu-6.1.0",
        "nar_hash": "sha256-eZHcD/obb1YmCiQ2T3111Zxjpp48bWA5Vw/PVFW9i8s=",
        "nar_size_bytes": 256898464
      }
    ],
    "system": "x86_64-linux",
    "tags": {}
  },
  {
    "build_id": 805810,
    "create_time": "2022-08-19T07:31:24.523633Z",
    "start_time": "2022-08-19T07:31:25.398907Z",
    "queue_time_seconds": 0.875274,
    "duration_seconds": 23.74416,
    "status": "client_disconnect",
    "status_message": "ssh session closed",
    "cpu_count": 4,
    "allocated_megabytes": 6270,
    "cpu_seconds": 95,
    "peak_memory_use_kilobytes": 822832,
    "peak_storage_use_kilobytes": 248712,
    "derivation_path": "/nix/store/dkrh838n9rkc6xwjd9diimhssihfx5rx-snix-qemu-6.1.0.drv",
    "outputs": [],
    "system": "x86_64-linux",
    "tags": {}
  }
]
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The nixbuild-action for GitHub Actions is now using the API to generate summaries looking like this:

summary
summary1924×1006 145 KB

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It’s kind of off topic, but is nixbuild planning to support Darwin at some point?

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@kubukoz Yeah, Darwin support is planned, but we have no timeline for it yet.

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