pypi - package metdata

[Mark Lawrence]

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:
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>> https://pypi.python.org/simple/ provides list of packages,
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>> 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 
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this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us 
seeing double line spacing and single line paragraphs, thanks.

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Mark Lawrence

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