[cups.general] Searching for PPD in Driver list

[Helge Blischke]

Alexander Cohen wrote:

> 
> On May 22, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>> On May 22, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Alex Cohen wrote:
>>> Hello, Does the CUPS website give an API or some sort of access for
>>> programmatically searching for a driver or PPD for a named printer?
>> 
>> 
>> See the discussion of CUPS-Get-PPDs in the following document:
>> 
>>    http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/spec-ipp.html
>> 
>> You'll need to create your own IPP requests to get the list of matching
>> PPDs, and then do a CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer request with the
>> corresponding ppd-name:
>> 
>>    http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/api-httpipp.html
>> 
>> The source for lpinfo can be used as a template for the first part, and
>> the source of lpadmin for the second:
>> 
>>    http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/trunk/systemv/lpinfo.c
>>    http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/trunk/systemv/lpadmin.c
> 
> My question was not clear, sorry. I know how to use the cups API to get
> local PPD's. What im looking for is a WebService or some sort of online
> repository that I can programmatically query in order to find a PPD for a
> specific printer.
> 
> thx
> 
> AC

Try the printer database at openprinting.org (though they prefer to present 
the PPDs generated from their own XML based repository instead providing the 
vendor's original PPDs).

Helge