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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: pypi - package metdata |
| Date | 2014-06-18 21:12 +0100 |
| References | <f3b8fccb-aecd-4ae0-8be6-ce4a8e4317a1@googlegroups.com> <3e4dadd0-79d5-4c19-9a8e-04004f62fa63@googlegroups.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.11121.1403122355.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 18/06/2014 20:24, Maciej Dziardziel wrote: > On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:21:12 PM UTC+1, Maciej Dziardziel wrote: >> I wasn't quiet happy with the way search on pypi works, >> >> so I've got an idea of getting all package metadata from pypi >> >> and do search locally. The only problem is that I can't figure out >> >> where to get the data from. I tried to use bandersnatch to >> >> set up mirror, but all I've got was a mixture of egg, whl and exe files. >> >> Egg and whl are useful maybe, but I guess its not exactly what I want. >> >> Then I've found api: >> >> https://pypi.python.org/simple/ provides list of packages, >> >> and I can use json api to get metadata for each of them. > > > (Click post to fast, so I am continuing.) > > So its doable, but I am really hoping for a better way. > I assume pypi would ban me quickly for making thousands of requests, > and I'd love to be able to update index daily or weekly. > > Is there something I am missing? > Why not use google and do a site specific search of pypi? Slight aside would you please use the mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list or read and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing double line spacing and single line paragraphs, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
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pypi - package metdata Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 12:21 -0700
Re: pypi - package metdata Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 12:24 -0700
Re: pypi - package metdata Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-18 21:12 +0100
Re: pypi - package metdata Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 14:05 -0700
Re: pypi - package metdata Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-06-18 16:39 -0400
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