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how to see less recent packages on pypi

I saw some really interesting packages on pypi yesterday. They've fallen off the list today and (being senile) I don't recall enough detail to get to them. How do I get a list of all packages for (say) the last week?

Solution

  • PyPi has an xmlrpc API. You can get a list of recent releases with an updated_releases method. It returns a list of releases made since given timestamp.

    For example, it may look like this:

    import xmlrpclib
import time

client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("https://pypi.python.org/pypi")

interval = 86400*2
for package, version in client.updated_releases(int(time.time()) - interval):
    print "%s %s" % (package, version)

    Additionally there is a release_data(package_name, release_version) method to get more details about particular release