I’m looking for a database of commonly installed Windows software. At minimum I need the name of the software and the executable name, but it’d also be nice to have the publisher and the common installation path, etc. Basically, I’d like to be able to query it to find all the software by Adobe and the associated executable name, etc.
Basically I’m looking to be able to do
SELECT * FROM Software WHERE Publisher = 'Microsoft' SELECT * FROM Software WHERE Executable = 'devenv.com' I came across an effort to create such a database a long time ago, but can’t seem to find it now. Maybe it fizzled out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
So, someone asked a question on reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7civs/ask_prog_where_can_i_find_lists_of_data_in_useful/) that contained the original website I was looking for.
Anyone looking for a database of general information (including the database of software I was looking for) can find it at http://www.freebase.com/.
There were also a couple other interesting open databases at http://infochimps.org/, http://theinfo.org/ and http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-web