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

[Christian Heimes]

On 18/07/2021 10.15, Chris Green wrote:
> 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?)

PyPI used to have a search API. The XML-RPC endpoints were disabled last
year due to flooding. Our infrastructure could not cope with abusive
queries. You can read the log of events at https://status.python.org/

Christian