[Catalog-sig] New PyPI stats available

[Richard Jones]

On 19 February 2013 10:05, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> Le 17/02/2013 22:17, Richard Jones a écrit :
>> A few people are retrieving package download stats and I've been
>> approached by yet another potential user so I've quickly thrown
>> together a script that dumps the total download counts for all files
>> in PyPI.
>
> Nice, thank you!  Would you be open to offer more convenient
> programmatic access to that (i.e. XML-RPC call or HTTP resource)?
> If yes, would you put that on your ongoing list or rather review a pull
> request or patch?

It's kind of expensive to generate (it's a bunch of data) so no, I'd
rather not expose that in any way other than a dumped file every 12
hours.


    Richard