PyPI's XML-RPC methods

You can also use the json API.

Example usage:

>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> import pprint
>>> client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://pypi.python.org/pypi')
>>> client.package_releases('roundup')
['1.4.10']
>>> pprint.pprint(client.release_urls('roundup', '1.4.10'))
[{'comment_text': '',
  'downloads': 3163,
  'filename': 'roundup-1.1.2.tar.gz',
  'has_sig': True,
  'md5_digest': '7c395da56412e263d7600fa7f0afa2e5',
  'packagetype': 'sdist',
  'python_version': 'source',
  'size': 876455,
  'upload_time': <DateTime '20060427T06:22:35' at 912fecc>,
  'url': 'http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/roundup/roundup-1.1.2.tar.gz'},
 {'comment_text': '',
  'downloads': 2067,
  'filename': 'roundup-1.1.2.win32.exe',
  'has_sig': True,
  'md5_digest': '983d565b0b87f83f1b6460e54554a845',
  'packagetype': 'bdist_wininst',
  'python_version': 'any',
  'size': 614270,
  'upload_time': <DateTime '20060427T06:26:04' at 912fdec>,
  'url': 'http://pypi.python.org/packages/any/r/roundup/roundup-1.1.2.win32.exe'}]

list_packages()

• Retrieve a list of the package names registered with the package index. Returns a list of name strings.

package_releases(package_name, show_hidden=False)

• Retrieve a list of the releases registered for the given package_name. Returns a list with all version strings if show_hidden is True or only the non-hidden ones otherwise.

package_roles(package_name)

• Retrieve a list of users and their attributes roles for a given package_name. Role is either 'Maintainer' or 'Owner'.

user_packages(user)

• Retrieve a list of [role_name, package_name] for a given username. Role is either 'Maintainer' or 'Owner'.

release_downloads(package_name, version)

• Retrieve a list of files and download count for a given package and release version.

release_urls(package_name, version)

• Retrieve a list of download URLs for the given package release. Returns a list of dicts with the following keys:
  • url
  • packagetype ('sdist', 'bdist', etc)
  • filename
  • size
  • md5_digest
  • downloads
  • has_sig
  • python_version (required version, or 'source', or 'any')
  • comment_text

release_data(package_name, version)

• Retrieve metadata describing a specific package release. Returns a dict with keys for:
  • name
  • version
  • stable_version
  • author
  • author_email
  • maintainer
  • maintainer_email
  • home_page
  • license
  • summary
  • description
  • keywords
  • platform
  • download_url
  • classifiers (list of classifier strings)
  • requires
  • requires_dist
  • provides
  • provides_dist
  • requires_external
  • requires_python
  • obsoletes
  • obsoletes_dist
  • project_url
  • docs_url (URL of the packages.python.org docs if they've been supplied)
  If the release does not exist, an empty dictionary is returned.

search(spec[, operator])

• Search the package database using the indicated search spec.
• The spec may include any of the keywords described in the above list (except 'stable_version' and 'classifiers'), for example: {'description': 'spam'} will search description fields. Within the spec, a field's value can be a string or a list of strings (the values within the list are combined with an OR), for example: {'name': ['foo', 'bar']}. Valid keys for the spec dict are listed here. Invalid keys are ignored:
  • name
  • version
  • author
  • author_email
  • maintainer
  • maintainer_email
  • home_page
  • license
  • summary
  • description
  • keywords
  • platform
  • download_url
  Arguments for different fields are combined using either "and" (the default) or "or". Example: search({'name': 'foo', 'description': 'bar'}, 'or'). The results are returned as a list of dicts {'name': package name, 'version': package release version, 'summary': package release summary}

browse(classifiers)

• Retrieve a list of (name, version) pairs of all releases classified with all of the given classifiers. 'classifiers' must be a list of Trove classifier strings.

changelog(since)

• Retrieve a list of four-tuples (name, version, timestamp, action) since the given timestamp. All timestamps are UTC values. The argument is a UTC integer seconds since the epoch.

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