Note you can also use the XMLRPC api.
You can access JSON information about packages by using the URL format
You can use this to automatically generate a link to the latest release of your package with (assuming use of jQuery):
<span id="release_info" class="note">Download:
<a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/roundup">latest</a></span>
<script type="text/javascript">
$.getJSON('http://pypi.python.org/pypi/roundup/json?callback=?', function(data) {
h = 'Download: ' + data.info.version;
for (var i=0, url; url=data.urls[i]; ++i) {
h += '<br><a href="' + url.url + '">' + url.filename + '</a>';
}
$('#release_info').html(h);
});
</script>Sphinx has support for putting an up-to-date Download link in your website using that JSON with one simple directive, for example (for the "roundup" package):
.. pypi-release:: Roundup :prefix: Download :class: note