Eclipse Marketplace REST API Documentation

Marketplace supports three different types of URLs to fetch data in XML format.

this will return a listing of solution title as well as the id of that node for use in node URLs
% is defined as the ID of a category.
If you wish to cross-reference a category with a market you would seperate the ids by a , (comma) in the % argument.
example: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/taxonomy/term/2/xml will return all results for the Code Management category.
example: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/taxonomy/term/2,39/xml will return all results for the Code Management category and Tools Market

this will return a listing of contents of a node.
Most fields in the XML document are self explanitory. However there are a few fields that require explanation.
Type - this is the type of listing being returned. 'training' is for a Training and Consulting Listing, 'resource' is for a solutions listing.
Body - this field can and most likely contains HTML markup. This also applies to the Training and Consulting Fields (trainingdesc and consultingdesc)
Created - this field is when the listing was first created. It is the number of seconds since the epoch. See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.time.php for more details.
Changed - this field is the last time this listing was changed. It is the number of seconds since the epoch. See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.time.php for more details.
FoundationMember - this is a boolean field. 0 meaning No, 1 meaning Yes.

Building a Catalog

In terms of building your own catalog with this data you would follow a three step process.

Query the Base URL for a listing of Markets and their categories.
Iterate through that query to retrieve listings for each category using the Category URL.
Finally iterate through the Category Query to retrieve the data related to each node.