[Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability

[Marc-André Pelletier]

On 08/13/2014 11:15 AM, Hay (Husky) wrote:
> If you have a web-hosted tool, simply stick it in the root of your
> tools directory so that it's reachable by the crawler. Whenever your
> tool data changes, just update the file and the directory will
> automatically update the directory site.

I would actually prefer that the json file live in the tool's home, and
will shortly provide a means by which this can be fetched by HTTP.  Not
all tools provide web interfaces, and metadata about those would be just
as useful.

It would also make sense to have more than one url element; one
(optional) for a web interface, for instance, and one to documentation
at the least.

-- Marc