pypi changelog api

[Michael Herman]

yeah, i just checked github, i thought a buddy of mine had submitted an
issue

not sure how they get their updates.

this is an interesting project - https://github.com/kencochrane/pypi-mirrors

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Philipp Hagemeister <phihag at phihag.de>wrote:

> Just FYI, PyPi already has an RSS feed:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=rss
>
> And instead of mailing the author, you should probably open an issue (or
> better yet, a pull request) at https://github.com/crateio/crate.web/issues
>
> For that matter - how does crate.io update their PyPi mirror?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Philipp
>
>
> On 02/21/2013 02:52 PM, Michael Herman wrote:
> > I'd love to see https://crate.io/ set up an API or at the very least an
> RSS
> > feed for tracking changes. I've emailed the author about this. I think if
> > enough people do, an RSS feed would be easy to setup.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Philipp Hagemeister <phihag at phihag.de
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Gregg,
> >>
> >> to get a smaller response, you can simply pass in a timestamp, like
> this:
> >>
> >>>>> client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://pypi.python.org/pypi')
> >>>>> import time
> >>>>> client.changelog(int(time.time() - 600))
> >> [['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1', 1361451748, 'update description,
> >> classifiers'], ['numericalunits', '1.11', 1361451759, 'new release'],
> >> ['numericalunits', '1.11', 1361451760, 'add source file
> >> numericalunits-1.11.tar.gz'], ['autobahn_rce', '0.6.0', 1361451798,
> >> 'remove'], ['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1', 1361451816, 'update
> >> description, classifiers'], ['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1',
> >> 1361451882, 'update description, classifiers'], ['autobahn_rce',
> >> '0.5.9', 1361451956, 'new release'], ['autobahn_rce', '0.5.9',
> >> 1361451971, 'add source file autobahn_rce-0.5.9.tar.gz']]
> >>
> >> I don't think there's way to get older chunks of the changelog though.
> >> What would you need those for?
> >>
> >> If you need the entire changelog, just download it once (it's not that
> >> large, barely 40MB). Here it is, up until 1361452402 (now):
> >>
> >> http://phihag.de/2013/pypi-changelog-2013-02-20.json.bz2
> >>
> >> What I'd like is a real-time push service of changelog entries, but I'm
> >> not certain that would be scalable.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Philipp
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/18/2013 02:16 AM, Gregg Caines wrote:
> >>> Hey all,
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to write a script that tracks changes on pypi, and I've come
> >> across the xmlrpc interface, specifically the 'changelog' api.  It's
> >> definitely what I'm looking for, but I get an absolutely massive xml
> >> response from it at once and I was hoping there might be either some
> way to
> >> "page" through it with mulitple requests, or a different-but-similar
> API.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance,
> >>> Gregg
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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