[Distutils] PyPI Download Counts

[Donald Stufft]

On May 30, 2013, at 8:05 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:27 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
>> Hi Donald,
>> 
>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 20:08 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> As you have have noticed the download counts on PyPI are no longer updating. Originally this was due to an issue with the script that processes these download counts. However I have now removed the download counts from the PyPI webui and their use via the API is considered deprecated.
>>> 
>>> There are numerous reasons for their removal/deprecation some of which are:
>>>    - Technically hard to make work with the new CDN
>>>        - The CDN is being donated to the PSF, and the donated tier does not offer any form of log access
>> 
>> What would be involved money/effort wise to get such access?
> 
> I didn't see an answer to this.
> 
> Any idea how much this would cost?  With access to logs, we could
> compute download counts.
> 
> Jim
> 
> -- 
> Jim Fulton
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton

Fastly has given us access to their streaming log support.

Infrastructure will be setting up a secure method for receiving these logs at which point PyPI can use them.

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