Search Windows packages on Chocolatey.

Searches the Chocolatey Community Repository for Windows software packages like its packages page: package id, title, version, download count, description, author and package page link. First page of results (up to 30 packages).

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Site: Chocolatey Community Repository, United States
Version: v1
Runs, last 7 days: No reports yet
sha256: 5115ed72ba3f…

Run it with your agent

after installing Wield

Ask in plain words. Your agent finds this recipe and calls it:

“Search Windows packages on Chocolatey.”

Read-only: it changes nothing on the site. No login needed.

{
  "tool": "run",
  "arguments": {
    "recipe_id": "community.chocolatey.org/search-packages",
    "params": {
      "query": "7zip"
    }
  }
}

Requests

sent from your browser, in order

1GET/packages?qServer-rendered packages search page /packages?q=...; read-only GET. Each package is an li.package-listing with data-package-id, the title and version in h5 a, the download count, description and author.

Parameters

from your agent

querystringrequiredPackage name or keyword, e.g. '7zip', 'notepad++', 'git'

Returns

to your agent

packagesobject[]author, description, downloads, id, title, url, version

querystring

Where it can send

community.chocolatey.org

Anything else is blocked by the extension.

Reads from your session

Nothing. Your browser attaches the site's cookies by itself.

Used only in requests to the addresses on the left. Never sent to wield.run or your agent.

Checks

a run passes when

length(output.packages) > `0`
length(output.packages[?starts_with(url, 'https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/')]) == length(output.packages)
length(output.packages[?title != `null`]) == length(output.packages)

Raw recipe

Served as canonical JSON from /api/v1/recipes/community.chocolatey.org/search-packages, so its sha256 matches the ETag and the index.

Check it yourself

curl -s https://wield.run/api/v1/recipes/community.chocolatey.org/search-packages | shasum -a 256
# 5115ed72ba3fba76e367a1ab580568d109c5cc752ec9af725a48c44903828855

community.chocolatey.org/search-packages.json, v1

{
  "description": "Searches the Chocolatey Community Repository for Windows software packages like its packages page: package id, title, version, download count, description, author and package page link. First page of results (up to 30 packages).",
  "effect": "read",
  "id": "community.chocolatey.org/search-packages",
  "keywords": [
    "chocolatey",
    "windows",
    "packages",
    "software",
    "install",
    "choco",
    "nuget",
    "package manager",
    "download",
    "apps",
    "open source",
    "community"
  ],
  "output": {
    "schema": {
      "properties": {
        "packages": {
          "items": {
            "properties": {
              "author": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "description": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "downloads": {
                "type": [
                  "integer",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "title": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "url": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "version": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "id",
              "url"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "type": "array"
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "query",
        "packages"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "value": "{query: params.query, packages: steps.search.packages[?id != `null` && href != `null`].{id: id, title: title || `null`, version: version || `null`, downloads: (downloads && to_number(replace(downloads, ',', ''))) || `null`, description: description || `null`, author: author || `null`, url: join('', ['https://community.chocolatey.org', href])}}"
  },
  "params": {
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "properties": {
      "query": {
        "description": "Package name or keyword, e.g. '7zip', 'notepad++', 'git'",
        "maxLength": 100,
        "minLength": 2,
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "query"
    ],
    "type": "object"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "method": "har",
    "notes": "GET /packages?q=<query> returns server-rendered HTML with the first page of packages as li.package-listing elements (data-package-id, h5 link to /packages/<id>, version and download count spans, description, author link). Relative links are made absolute on community.chocolatey.org. No hashed CSS classes are used. The recipe does not call other hosts.",
    "recorded_at": "2026-11-08T16:40:23.000Z",
    "recorded_by": "wield-forge (claude-haiku agent)"
  },
  "requires_login": false,
  "schema": "https://wield.run/schema/recipe/v1.json",
  "site": {
    "country": "US",
    "id": "community.chocolatey.org",
    "language": "en",
    "name": "Chocolatey Community Repository",
    "origin": "https://community.chocolatey.org",
    "origins": [
      "https://community.chocolatey.org"
    ]
  },
  "steps": [
    {
      "description": "Server-rendered packages search page /packages?q=...; read-only GET. Each package is an li.package-listing with data-package-id, the title and version in h5 a, the download count, description and author.",
      "expect": {
        "content_type": "html",
        "status": [
          200
        ]
      },
      "extract": {
        "html_items": {
          "packages": {
            "fields": {
              "author": {
                "attr": "title",
                "selector": "li.package-listing-author a"
              },
              "description": {
                "selector": "p.package-listing-description"
              },
              "downloads": {
                "selector": "span.package-listing-downloads"
              },
              "href": {
                "attr": "href",
                "selector": "h5 a[href^='/packages/']"
              },
              "id": {
                "attr": "data-package-id",
                "selector": ":scope"
              },
              "title": {
                "selector": "span.package-listing-title"
              },
              "version": {
                "selector": "span.package-listing-version"
              }
            },
            "max": 50,
            "selector": "li.package-listing"
          }
        }
      },
      "id": "search",
      "request": {
        "headers": {
          "Accept": "text/html"
        },
        "method": "GET",
        "query": {
          "q": "{{params.query}}"
        },
        "url": "/packages"
      }
    }
  ],
  "task": "Search Windows packages on Chocolatey",
  "tos": {
    "notes": "Not reviewed. One search page per call, the same page a visitor loads. The site's terms on automated access were not checked.",
    "reviewed": false
  },
  "verify": {
    "checks": [
      "length(output.packages) > `0`",
      "length(output.packages[?starts_with(url, 'https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/')]) == length(output.packages)",
      "length(output.packages[?title != `null`]) == length(output.packages)"
    ],
    "example_params": {
      "query": "7zip"
    },
    "max_ms": 5000
  },
  "version": 1
}