[Distutils] Download Counts on PyPI
Alex Clark
aclark at aclark.net
Fri Jun 28 13:36:19 CEST 2013
Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
> > Is there any plan for per-version/per-file stats? I notice that the
> > current stat display is across all versions, which makes it harder to
> > tell e.g. setuptools 0.7 uptake vs 0.6.
>
> That information is available via the API in a total format (basically the
old download formats).
>
> I think for someone evaluating the popularity of a package the new format
is much more useful. Obviously
> there is more information that _could_ be displayed (with varying amounts
of effort) but you run the risk
> of overwhelming the user with stats.
>
> There's a lot more I'd like to do in general statistics wise geared
towards different targeted audiences.
> There aren't exact plans right now as there are more pressing concerns and
it needs to be done in a way that
> tells a useful "story" without overwhelming people with numbers.
Are you sure it doesn't "just work"? Vanity seems to work as expected now, I
just cut a new release:
aclark at Alexs-MacBook-Pro:~/ > vanity vanity
vanity-1.0.zip 2011-04-14 980
vanity-1.1.0.zip 2011-10-26 771
vanity-1.1.1.zip 2011-10-28 744
vanity-1.1.2.zip 2011-10-28 775
vanity-1.2.0.tar.gz 2012-01-30 712
vanity-1.2.1.tar.gz 2012-02-16 761
vanity-1.2.2.zip 2012-07-31 474
vanity-1.2.3.zip 2012-08-08 523
vanity-1.2.4.zip 2013-02-19 249
vanity-1.2.5.zip 2013-03-18 252
vanity-2.0.0.zip 2013-05-26 3
vanity-2.0.1.zip 2013-05-27 0
vanity-2.0.2.zip 2013-05-27 2
vanity-2.0.3.zip 2013-06-28 0
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vanity has been downloaded 6,246 times!
aclark at Alexs-MacBook-Pro:~/ > vanity vanity==2.0.2
vanity-2.0.2.zip 2013-05-27 2
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vanity 2.0.2 has been downloaded 2 times!
I don't necessarily care what is displayed on PyPI, as long as we have
(roughly) the same functionality as before. Thanks for working on this!
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