Mirroring the official nuget package repository

At my place of employment we have a temperamental proxy server which often makes the nuget packages window unusable (the same is true for the nuget command line). I've started copying the packages we use most often to a local mirror on a network share, but doing this manually has become tedious. I've experimented with using powershell to download the packages automatically, but can't seem to get the odata ur开发者_StackOverflowi to show more than a few packages. For example running the following query:

$feed = [xml]$webClient.DownloadString("http://feed.nuget.org/ctp2/odata/v1/Packages?$filter=startswith(Title,'O') eq true&$top=100")

Should return the top 100 packages that have a title beginning with 'O', but no packages are returned. Weirdly this works fine with package names that are in the default list of packages returned by hitting http://feed.nuget.org/ctp2/odata/v1/Packages. I'm guessing that there's some kind of paging going on, where I'm only querying over the first page. Playing with the parameters I don't seem to be able to change to the next page...

Has anyone else tried to do this? Has anyone else noticed timeouts/bad requests using nuget?

Jon Galloway posted a PS script that downloads the whole repository. I've used it on a couple of machines and it works great for me.

http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/downloading-a-local-nuget-repository-with-powershell

My suggestion is to use the New-ODataServiceProxy or even Doug Finke's PSOdata project

With just the proxy function you can do this:

New-ODataServiceProxy http://packages.nuget.org/v1/FeedService.svc/ NuGet
 # Chain up calls to AddQueryOption (please excuse my line wrapping):
$NuGet.Packages.AddQueryOption( '$filter',"startswith(Title,'O') eq true"
              ).AddQueryOption( '$top','3' ) |
Format-Table Id, Version, Authors, Description -Wrap -Auto

You need to be careful when using string in double quotes. Try to evaluate the url first, or only a part:

PS> "?$filter=startswith(Title,'O') eq true&$top=100"
?=startswith(Title,'O') eq true&=100

PS> "?`$filter=startswith(Title,'O') eq true&`$top=100"
?$filter=startswith(Title,'O') eq true&$top=100

Escape the dollar sign with backtick.

Then I tried to query the site with (hopefully) correct url, but no result entry was returned. So - still no luck and there could be something wrong with the service.