Hello, I'm trying to create a bot for getting the documentation of an object/member in Kotlin from t...

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[Ayfri]

Hello, I'm trying to create a bot for getting the documentation of an object/member in Kotlin from the standard library (a class/property/method etc), but I'm wondering multiple questions :
1. Is it allowed ? Will I hit any limitations doing this by scrapping the website each time ? (if yes at how many ?)
2. Is there any export I can find anywhere ? This will avoid me scrapping

[ephemient]

it's all from kdocs in the source code, you can build your own with https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/libraries/tools/kotlin-stdlib-docs

[Ayfri]

Yes I know, but will it be simpler to create a scrapper or a Kotlin KDoc analyser ? 🤔
Or maybe there is already some library I can use to retrieve the KDoc of an element from a fqname (for example kotlin.Long or kotlin.Long#and ?

[ephemient]

I mean you can just ./gradlew buildLatestVersion instead of scraping

[Ayfri]

Ah sorry, code source seems to be mainly contained in the build.gradle.kts and it's big, is there any documentation on what it does in details ?

[ephemient]

runs dokka

[Ayfri]

Okay I see, so then I could just clone this folder of the repository, run the script on each new major Kotlin release, and use the local export to extract the data I need ?
I asked Claude AI and it also says that dokka has a plugin to export to JSON, I just have to create a new task for it and then I could directly use that, is it true ?

[ephemient]

there isn't any maintained dokka json exporter as far as I know, but it shouldn't be hard to write

[Ayfri]

(I never used dokka so I don't know exactly its features and how to use it)

[Ayfri]

Okay I see, I'll try that when I have time to, thanks for the answers !

[Adam S]

https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/621