Comment 0 for bug 1663097

snapd added a new feature with store sections. This can be used to get the featured snaps that should be promoted.

$ nc -C -U /run/snapd.socket
GET /v2/find?section=featured HTTP/1.1
Host:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 02:55:26 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

121e
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