Downloading all information in JSON format

[Grant Murphy <grantcmurphy@gmail.com>]

Hi list,

I'm trying to build a tool that monitors security issues across a
number of different sources. One of which was the Debian security
tracker.

I had hoped to periodically poll this url:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json for changes and
update my local copy as required. After a bit of looking I was
surprised to see that:

  - The download size is ~30mb (Acceptable if the below measures had been taken)
  - The file has not had whitespace removed (will reduce file size by about 5mb)
  - The file is not compressed (gzip will reduce __total__ file size to ~2mb)
  - It is generated per request
  - The 'If-Modified-Since' header is not honored so the complete file
will need to be re-downloaded every time to check if it has changed.


So here are my questions:

  - Is there a better way to access this information than periodically
polling this URL
  - Can we at the very least get some form of compressed version of this data?
  - If nobody has time to fix this how can I contribute?

Thanks,

- Grant