Searching pypi.org, is there an 'advanced search'?

[Chris Green]

Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 1:03:21 PM UTC+1, Chris Green wrote:
> > Every time I go to pypi.org to look for a neat utility or something I 
> > curse the stupid search. 
> > 
> > Is there really no better search available? Apart from anything else 
> > it appears to OR the elements together so, for example, I wanted to 
> > search for programs/libraries that will allow me to access Google 
> > Contacts:- 
> > 
> > Putting the words Google and Contacts in the search box produces 
> > more than 10000 hits. 
> > 
> > Putting just Google in the search box produces 8,629 projects. 
> > 
> > So, it would appear the terms are OR'ed together, surely OR'ing terms 
> > in a search (by default) went out with the ark! 
> > 
> > When I put 'Google contacts' in the search box I want projects that 
> > have both 'Google' AND 'Contacts' in their description somewhere! 
> > (... and, no, I tried 'Google AND Contacts', still more than 10000 
> > results). 
> > 
> > pypi.org is a wonderful resource but its size now demands a better 
> > search engine. 
> > 
> 
> As this is an open source project I'm looking forward to the huge amount 
> of work that you personally will be putting in to remedy this situation. 
> In summary put up or shut up :) 

I'm quite happy to help, however I was just asking (maybe rather more
agressively than I should have done) if I was missing something
obvious.  E.g. is there some syntax that I don't know about that I can
use in the search box, or maybe I should use an external search engine?

... and Open Source doesn't mean one can't criticise surely, rather
the opposite! :-)   (I have, by the way, contributed in a minor way to
quite a few open source projects over the years, and that's a lot of
years!  I even have a small credit in the 'bible' for the Kermit file
transfer protocol, remember that?)

-- 
Chris Green
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