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---
# go.dev/dl JSON feed

## Coverage
Official Go toolchain release archive including source and per-platform binaries, checksums, and sizes.

## Access
`GET https://go.dev/dl/?mode=json` — defaults to the **two newest stable releases only** (confirmed: 2 entries, `go1.27.1` marked `stable: true`, 22,807 bytes). `GET https://go.dev/dl/?mode=json&include=all` returns every tracked release including pre-releases: 365 entries, 2,211,180 bytes, with `stable: false` entries like `go1.27rc3`, `go1.27rc2`, `go1.26rc3`.

## Auth
None.

## Rate limits
None observed in headers.

## Freshness
Newest stable today: `go1.27.1`. Newest `include=all` entry: `go1.27rc3`-class pre-releases precede the GA tag, so `include=all` surfaces upcoming releases before `mode=json` (no `include`) does.

## Known gaps
- The default (no `include=`) response is **not** "all releases" despite being the documented JSON mode — it is capped to the 2 most recent stable builds. A consumer wanting release history must always pass `include=all` and then filter on `stable`.
- Each file entry's `os`/`arch` are **empty strings**, not `null` or absent, for the `source` kind entry (`kind: "source"`, `os: "", arch: ""`) — an absent-vs-empty check must treat `""` as "not platform-specific", not as a parse failure.
- No explicit pagination or rate-limit headers on either mode; the whole dataset is returned in one response regardless of size.

## Probe log

```
$ curl -sS "https://go.dev/dl/?mode=json" -o go_dl.json
$ python3 -c "import json;d=json.load(open('go_dl.json'));print(len(d), d[0]['version'], d[0]['stable'])"
2 go1.27.1 True

$ curl -sS "https://go.dev/dl/?mode=json&include=all" -o go_dl_all.json
$ python3 -c "
import json; d=json.load(open('go_dl_all.json'))
print(len(d))
print([x['version'] for x in d if not x['stable']][:5])"
365
['go1.27rc3', 'go1.27rc2', 'go1.27rc1', 'go1.26rc3', 'go1.26rc2']
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:50:29Z–2026-10-05T08:50:34Z, curl 8 / HTTP2, no custom User-Agent unless noted.

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