diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ae916a5..2d1528f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ edition = "2024"
 
 [dependencies]
 alhp_api = {path = "crates/alhp_api"}
-
+alpm = "4.0.2"
diff --git a/crates/alhp_api/Cargo.toml b/crates/alhp_api/Cargo.toml
index 0bc7b2f..f6ad11a 100644
--- a/crates/alhp_api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/alhp_api/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ authors = ["mpuchstein"]
 serde = { version = "1.0.219", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.140"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12.15" , features = ["blocking"] }
+log = "0.4.27"
diff --git a/crates/alhp_api/src/lib.rs b/crates/alhp_api/src/lib.rs
index 5aac3f6..d7c530a 100644
--- a/crates/alhp_api/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/alhp_api/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
-use std::fmt;
-use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
+use log::{error, info};
+use reqwest::StatusCode;
 use reqwest::blocking::Client;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use std::error::Error;
+use std::fmt;
+
+const API_BASE_URL: &str = "https://api.alhp.dev";
+const API_PACKAGES_EXT: &str = "/packages?";
+const API_GENERAL_EXT: &str = "/stats?";
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Serialize, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
-pub enum PackageStatus{
+pub enum PackageStatus {
     Latest,
     Failed,
     Built,
@@ -18,7 +25,21 @@ pub enum PackageStatus{
 
 impl fmt::Display for PackageStatus {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        write!(f, "{}", serde_json::to_string(self).unwrap().trim_matches('"'))
+        write!(
+            f,
+            "{}",
+            match self {
+                PackageStatus::Latest => "latest",
+                PackageStatus::Failed => "failed",
+                PackageStatus::Built => "build",
+                PackageStatus::Skipped => "skipped",
+                PackageStatus::Delayed => "delayed",
+                PackageStatus::Building => "building",
+                PackageStatus::Signing => "signing",
+                PackageStatus::Unknown => "unknown",
+                PackageStatus::Queued => "queued",
+            }
+        )
     }
 }
 
@@ -28,11 +49,13 @@ pub struct Package {
     repo: String,
     split_packages: Vec<String>,
     status: PackageStatus,
+    skip_reason: Option<String>,
     lto: String,
     debug_symbols: String,
     arch_version: String,
     repo_version: String,
-    build_date: String,
+    build_date: Option<String>,
+    peak_mem: Option<String>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -40,7 +63,7 @@ pub struct PackageResponse {
     pub total: usize,
     pub offset: usize,
     pub limit: usize,
-    pub packages: Vec<Package>
+    pub packages: Vec<Package>,
 }
 #[derive(Debug, Serialize, Default)]
 pub struct PackageRequest {
@@ -71,13 +94,51 @@ impl PackageRequest {
         params.push(format!("limit={}", self.limit));
         params.join("&")
     }
-    pub fn response(&self) -> Result<PackageResponse, reqwest::Error> {
+    pub fn response(&self) -> Result<PackageResponse, Box<dyn Error>> {
+        let query_url = format!(
+            "{}{}{}",
+            API_BASE_URL,
+            API_PACKAGES_EXT,
+            self.query_string()
+        );
+        println!("{}", query_url);
         let client = Client::new();
-        let query_string = self.query_string();
-        let url = format!("https://api.alhp.dev/packages?{}", query_string);
-        println!("{}", url);
-        let response = client.get(url).send()?.text()?;
-        let response: PackageResponse = serde_json::from_str(&response).unwrap();
-        Ok(response)
+        info!("Fetching URL: {}", query_url);
+        let response = client.get(query_url).send()?;
+        match response.status() {
+            StatusCode::OK => {
+                let response = response.text()?;
+                println!("{}", response);
+                match serde_json::from_str(&response) {
+                    Ok(json) => Ok(json),
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        error!("Failed to deserialize JSON: {}", e);
+                        error!("Response body: {}", response);
+                        Err(Box::new(e))
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            StatusCode::NOT_FOUND => {
+                info!("No packages found");
+                Ok(PackageResponse{
+                    total: 0,
+                    offset: 0,
+                    limit: 0,
+                    packages: vec![],
+                })
+            }
+            StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR => {
+                panic!("Internal Server Error");
+            }
+            _ => {
+                let query_url = format!(
+                    "{}{}{}",
+                    API_BASE_URL,
+                    API_PACKAGES_EXT,
+                    self.query_string()
+                );
+                panic!("Unexpected server response: {:?} for query url: {}", response, query_url);
+            }
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 2c9a949..3231c4b 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,31 +1,29 @@
 use alhp_api;
-use std::process::Command;
+use alpm::{Alpm};
 use alhp_api::{PackageRequest, PackageStatus};
 
-fn pacman_query_installed_packages() -> Vec<String> {
-    match Command::new("pacman").arg("-Qqn").output() {
-        Ok(packages) => String::from_utf8_lossy(&packages.stdout)
-            .lines()
-            .map(|s| s.to_string())
-            .collect(),
-        _ => {
-            panic!("pacman query failed");
-        }
+fn query_installed_packages() {
+    let alpm = match Alpm::new("/", "/var/lib/pacman"){
+        Ok(alpm) => alpm,
+        Err(_) => panic!("Error establishing ALPM handle."),
+    };
+    let local_db= alpm.localdb();
+    let server = local_db.servers();
+    for s in server {
+        println!("{}", s);
     }
 }
 
 fn main() {
-    let installed_packages = pacman_query_installed_packages();
-    println!("installed packages: {:?}", installed_packages);
-    let status = vec!();
     let pkg = PackageRequest{
-        status,
-        pkgbase: Some("go".to_string()),
+        status: vec![PackageStatus::Building, PackageStatus::Queued],
+        pkgbase: None,
         exact: true,
         repo: Some("extra-x86-64-v3".to_string()),
         offset: 0,
         limit: 0,
     };
     let pkg = pkg.response().unwrap();
-    println!("pkg: {:?}", pkg);
+    println!("{:#?}", pkg);
+    query_installed_packages();
 }