PyPI's XML-RPC methods
Example usage:
>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> server = xmlrpclib.Server('http://pypi.python.org/pypi')
>>> server.package_releases('roundup')
['1.1.2']
>>> server.package_urls('roundup', '1.1.2')
[{'url':
'http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/roundup/roundup-1.1.2.tar.gz',
'packagetype': 'sdist'}, {'url':
'http://pypi.python.org/packages/any/r/roundup/roundup-1.1.2.win32.exe',
'packagetype': 'bdist_wininst'}]list_packages()
- Retrieve a list of the package names registered with the package index. Returns a list of name strings.
package_releases(package name)
- Retrieve a list of the releases registered for the given package name. Returns a list of version strings.
release_urls(package_name, version)
- Retrieve a list of download URLs for the given package release. Returns a list of dicts {'url': the url, 'packagetype': the download package type} where the packagetype is one of the setup.py package types ('sdist', 'bdist', etc).
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)
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']}. 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}
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.