I wanted a dataset which lists many windows softwares according to their categories for a project. eg: anaconda: software development, roblox: gaming, VLC: video player etc. I searched but could not find anything similar to this. Please link me to one of them if you are familiar to any such dataset.
Topic windows dataset data-mining machine-learning
Category Data Science
If you can’t find an off-the-shelf dataset and have specific categories in mind, you could use the winget tags to crawl your own dataset (of winget listed software). e.g. by:
C:\Users\x>winget search --tag music
Name ID Version Übereinstimmung Quelle
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Live Event Sound & Music Panel 9WZDNCRDQVF1 Unknown msstore
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Music Mist 9WZDNCRDFGLG Unknown msstore
YouTube Music Desktop App Ytmdesktop.Ytmdesktop 1.13.0 Tag: music winget
网易云音乐 xiaozhu188.electron-vue-cloud-music 1.2.3 Tag: music winget
Kodi XBMCFoundation.Kodi 19.3.0.0 Tag: music winget
Anvil Studio WillowSoftware.AnvilStudio 21.08.01 Tag: music winget
Harmony VincentL.Harmony 0.9.1 Tag: music winget
Utsu titinko.utsu 0.4.5 Tag: music winget
...
Winget is a native windows package manager, which is shipped with newer versions but can also be installed manually. For more information see: http://woshub.com/using-winget-package-manager-windows/
I would crawl it by writing a small Python script, but it may also be worth it to check out the winget REST api for this purpose: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli-restsource
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