diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cfd0bcb..db02312 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,11 +19,10 @@ even if the date relies on a specific file in their repo, we can still find the
 to find repos of the mirrored projects to check, just search "projectName mirrors"
 
 not done:
-macPorts: only distfiles has public repo, no timestamp, too large to loop through
+macPorts: only distfiles has public repo, no timestamp, too large to loop through, comparing ports.tar.gz in distfiles
 NetBSD: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ has public repo, no timestamp, web directory hard to loop through, no mirror tracker
 opensuse: http://download.opensuse.org/ has public repo, a possible timestamp called latest in history, our mirror doesn't have this file tho, no mirror tracker
 puppylinux: https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/ check the ISO files in the folders starting with puppy
-racket: https://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/ no public repo, no timestamp, no mirror status tracker make sure that we have the latest version number under racket-installers
 x.org: https://www.x.org/releases/ no timestamp, but candidate for brute force looping since it has few folders, no status tracker
 Xiph: no timestamp, too big to loop through, no status tracker
 
@@ -71,6 +70,7 @@ openbsd
 parabola: https://repo.parabola.nu/ https://www.parabola.nu/mirrors/status/
 pkgsrc
 qtproject: https://download.qt.io/
+racket: https://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/ no public repo, no timestamp, no mirror status tracker make sure that we have the latest version number under racket-installers
 raspberry pi: https://archive.raspberrypi.org/ Checking the timestamp of either the Release file or the Packages file should suffice.
 raspbian: http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ snapshotindex.txt is most likely a timestamp, tho i'm not sure. also i think our mirror is completely outdated, it's not listed on official mirror list
 sagemath: same source tarballs as them (the sage-*.tar.gz files under 'Source Code')
diff --git a/data.json b/data.json
index df4f4b6..be92462 100644
--- a/data.json
+++ b/data.json
@@ -359,5 +359,12 @@
 		"csc": "racket/racket-installers/",
 		"upstream": "https://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/",
 		"file": ""
+	},
+	"macports": {
+		"out_of_sync_since": 1634339590,
+		"out_of_sync_interval": 86400,
+		"csc": "MacPorts/mpdistfiles/",
+		"upstream": "https://distfiles.macports.org/",
+		"file": "ports.tar.gz"
 	}
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/projects/macports.py b/projects/macports.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe1aaaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/macports.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import requests
+import re  # import regular expressions to remove stray numbers in string that might interfere with date finding
+import json  # import json to read project info stored in json file
+from project import Project
+from shared import CSC_MIRROR
+
+import datefinder  # another date finding library
+
+class macports(Project):
+    """macports class"""
+    # checker: gets the timestamp of the file inside the directory at the specified URL and returns it as a string
+    @staticmethod
+    def checker(directory_URL, file_name):
+        page = requests.get(directory_URL).text
+        file_index = page.find(file_name)
+        # print(page)
+
+        # remove stray numbers (file size numbers in particular) that might interfere with date finding
+        segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\s', ' ', page[file_index:])  # removes numbers for size
+        segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\w*\s', ' ', page[file_index:])  # removes numbers + size unit. e.x. 50kb
+        # print(segment_clean)
+
+        # finds the dates in the segment after the file name
+        # notes: a generator will be returned by the datefinder module. I'm typecasting it to a list. Please read the note of caution provided at the bottom.
+        matches = list(datefinder.find_dates(segment_clean))
+
+        # print(matches[0])
+        return matches[0]
+    
+    @classmethod
+    def check(cls, data, project):
+        """Check if project packages are up-to-date"""
+        csc_url = CSC_MIRROR + data[project]["csc"]
+        upstream_url = data[project]["upstream"]
+        file_name = data[project]["file"]
+        
+        return cls.checker(csc_url, file_name) == cls.checker(upstream_url, file_name)
diff --git a/test.py b/test.py
index c8b3949..0f2c8ea 100644
--- a/test.py
+++ b/test.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from datetime import timedelta
 import time
 import pandas as pd
 import re # for salt stack specifically
-from projects import racket
+from projects import macports
 import json  # import json to read project info stored in json file
 
 # this function is brute force looping through the whole directory and checking dates
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def get_latest_date(web_dir):
 if __name__ =="__main__":
     with open("data.json", "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
         data = json.load(file)
-        print(racket.check(data, "racket"))
+        print(macports.check(data, "macports"))
    
     """# website to be scrape
     site="https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/"