A colleague asked me recently if there was an API for querying the PostgreSQL Buildfarm database. I told him there was not. I'm aware that a number of people have been scraping the web pages for data, so it seemed like there was a good case for something better. And with a little help from claude code, I create one. It's live now. There's a full description at https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/server-code/blob/main/API.md

I'm particularly interested to hear from people how this might be usefully extended.

Here's an example of use, getting the latest status for the member crake on the master branch:

$ GET https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/bfapi.pl/status/master/crake
[
   {
      "architecture" : "x86_64",
      "branch" : "master",
      "build_flags" : [
         "buildtype",
         "cassert",
         "nls",
         "plperl",
         "plpython",
         "pltcl",
         "gssapi",
         "openssl",
         "ldap",
         "xml",
         "libxslt",
         "zlib",
         "readline",
         "tap-tests",
         "uuid",
         "icu",
         "PG_TEST_EXTRA",
         "injection-points",
         "curl",
         "debug",
         "meson",
         "git",
         "integer-datetimes",
         "thread-safety"
      ],
      "compiler" : "gcc",
      "compiler_version" : "16.1.1",
      "git_head_ref" : "7dd15325952fe85521b1fefea3ad39cf1b46e0c8",
      "log_archive_filenames" : [
         "SCM-checkout.log",
         "configure.log",
         "build.log",
         "test-setup.log",
         "check.log",
         "make-doc.log",
         "make-install.log",
         "install-testmodules.log",
         "BlackholeFDW-build.log",
         "RedisFDW-build.log",
         "FileTextArrayFDW-build.log",
         "perl-check.log",
         "BlackholeFDW-install.log",
         "RedisFDW-install.log",
         "FileTextArrayFDW-install.log",
         "misc-check.log",
         "initdb-C.log",
         "startdb-C-1.log",
         "install-check-C.log",
         "RedisFDW-installcheck-C.log",
         "FileTextArrayFDW-installcheck-C.log",
         "stopdb-C-1.log",
         "startdb-C-2.log",
         "misc-installcheck-C.log",
         "stopdb-C-2.log",
         "xversion-upgrade-save.log",
         "xversion-upgrade-HEAD-HEAD.log",
         "xversion-upgrade-REL_18_STABLE-HEAD.log",
         "xversion-upgrade-REL_17_STABLE-HEAD.log",
         "xversion-upgrade-REL_16_STABLE-HEAD.log"
      ],
      "operating_system" : "Fedora",
      "os_version" : "44",
      "report_time" : "2026-06-11 15:17:00.353648+00",
      "snapshot" : "2026-06-11 14:54:18",
      "stage" : "XversionUpgrade-REL_16_STABLE-HEAD",
      "status" : 1,
      "sysname" : "crake",
      "when_ago_secs" : 4607
   }
]