TeX Live / CTAN - List of all STY and CLS files

Question

Is there a database or tool that gives all the STY and CLS files that are part of TeX Live or CTAN?

I can do some basic web scrapping to retrieve this information, but I would like to avoid having to reprint the roll.

ctan's catalogue isn't public (too much personal data) but texlive's is see the /usr/local/texlive/2023/tlpkg/ data — David Carlisle, Nov 10 '23 at 19:32
Note that this is a moving target: the list changes continually. — cfr, Nov 10 '23 at 20:14
@DavidCarlisle -- nice list of class files, but I didn't see any .sty information that I know is in some of the packages shown. — barbara beeton, Nov 10 '23 at 21:35
@barbarabeeton because I filtered on .cls there as that was asked at the time, you could do the same for .sty (but the list would probably be too long for this site) — David Carlisle, Nov 10 '23 at 21:37
I suspect you could also use tlmgr, though I've not actually tried it. — cfr, Nov 10 '23 at 23:31
@cfr tlmgr list --all gives packages and classes, whereas the David Carliste's solution gives more information. — projetmbc, Nov 11 '23 at 08:19
@projetmbc Yes, but tlmgr has a lot of options and can use remote databases, too, but, as I said, I didn't test the idea. — cfr, Nov 11 '23 at 18:33
@cfr tlmgr info | grep english seems to be what I am looking for. — projetmbc, Nov 11 '23 at 22:08
Some packages, such as libertinus-fonts, have neither sty nor cls, just fonts. The related libertinus-otf package (separate installation) has sty. — rallg, Nov 25 '23 at 17:39
My concern is more about avoiding conflict names and unused packages. — projetmbc, Nov 25 '23 at 18:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 25 '23 at 15:33

From the comments, it looks like you found a solution.

But, as I was interested, I've created ctan-scraper.py

If you run, for example,

ctan-scraper.py --path "macros/latex/contrib/abnt/" --output myfile1.txt ".*?\.cls"

then you receive

INFO - [re.compile('macros'), re.compile('latex'), re.compile('contrib'), re.compile('abnt')]
INFO - mirror: https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/
INFO - https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/abntex2/tex/abntex2.cls
INFO - https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/abntexto/abntexto.cls
INFO - https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex2e/contrib/abntex2/tex/abntex2.cls
INFO - https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex2e/contrib/abntexto/abntexto.cls
INFO - https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/abntex2/tex/abntex2.cls
INFO - https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/abntexto/abntexto.cls
INFO - https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex2e/contrib/abntex2/tex/abntex2.cls
INFO - https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex2e/contrib/abntexto/abntexto.cls
INFO - match count: 8
INFO - directories searched count: 300
INFO - directories ignored count: 20102
INFO - output written to myfile1.txt
INFO - time: 59.2872476309999

and the output is written to myfile.txt

I don't know if this script is useful; if it looks helpful/promising, contributions welcome!

Thanks for sharing, even if I prefer to use click. – projetmbc Nov 25 '23 at 18:21 — projetmbc, Nov 25 '23 at 18:21

TeX Live / CTAN - List of all STY and CLS files

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