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Where do you all lookup "maven"? if i go here for example, <https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.squareup.okhttp3> its tough for me to figure out whats going on. meanwhile <https://maven.google.com> is so easy to navigate.

wdym by "lookup maven"?
Search a repository for an artifact? It depends on the artifact

pretty much yeah. like i typically do two things on <http://maven.google.com|maven.google.com> often

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1. lookup what versions of the dep exist. like so

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2. lookup what artifacts are available under a group

Well, if it's a Google library I use <http://maven.google.com|maven.google.com>
If it's hosted on central (ie most everything else), I use central search <http://central.sonatype.org|central.sonatype.org>
If I don't know where it comes from, <http://mvnrepository.com|mvnrepository.com> is an OK backup since it indexes a bunch of repositories

<@UN85K2RQR> what kind of stuff do you want to look up? just curious cause I had the same thing but to understand whether something was part of Jetpack Compose or CMP

my question is essentially

"<http://maven.google.com|maven.google.com> is really good and fast and light weight and im able to answer all of my questions about dependencies easily (that come from google maven)"

but i dont know what is the best lookup for mavenCentral since there seem to be a few websites that _seem_ official. but they all are kinda bad IMO (slow, hard to understand what artifacts exist in the group, etc)

<@U02G8M7PQJZ> thanks for sharing <http://central.sonatype.org|central.sonatype.org> it looks like i actually want the .com variant of that domain though?

so am i an idiot. how do i find all of the artifact in the okhttp3 group?

<https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.squareup.okhttp3/okhttp/overview>

Yeah that's the one, my bad I'm usually on .org for publishing docs :sweat_smile:

The mvnrepository link before already had all artifacts, but on mavencentral you can click the organization chip and it'll take you here <https://central.sonatype.com/namespace/com.squareup.okhttp3>

ah. the "organization" chip is the "group"

thanks okay. yeah i guess i didn't know the "official" source here. i definitely wasn't going to <http://central.sonatype.com|central.sonatype.com>. honestly its still a bit slow for my liking. but maybe thats because im used to <http://maven.google.com|maven.google.com>. its perfect :joy:

You can browse the directory structure of mavencentral if you prefer, but I think you'll see pretty quick why <http://maven.google.com|maven.google.com> doesn't scale to the size of central :stuck_out_tongue:
<https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/>

thanks. ill have to bookmark repo1 as well lol. that actually seems really helpful too.
thanks for teaching

<http://search.maven.org|search.maven.org> could be considered "official", it's the same infrastructure as central. it used to be something else but has been switched to redirect to sonatype search for maybe a year now

well ok it's a different URL that's hard coded into Gradle but after a redirect that's what it is <https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/constant-values.html#org.gradle.api.artifacts.ArtifactRepositoryContainer.MAVEN_CENTRAL_URL|https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/constant-values.html#org.gradle.api.artifacts.ArtifactRepositoryContainer.MAVEN_CENTRAL_URL>

similarly maven.google redirects to a content distribution network <https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/> for everything other than that basic web ui