Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes: > Is there an API for "all the metadata for everything" that doesn't > require one web request per package version? Maybe something like an > rdiff-backup of a database?
Well, the red-dove.com metadata works at three levels: http://www.red-dove.com/pypi/projects/projects.json gives a list of all PYPI project names, then e.g. http://www.red-dove.com/pypi/projects/W/wheel/project.json gives all the version numbers for wheel with download URLs, MD5 hashes (and importantly, dependencies) and e.g. http://www.red-dove.com/pypi/projects/W/wheel/package-1.0.0a2.json will give all the particulars of that particular wheel version, including dependencies, sources, build and test options, package data etc. So, the middle level gives a useful overview of a project sufficient for dependency resolution (it's what distlib and distil use). The data is kept reasonably fresh by periodically looking at what's changed recently on PyPI and updating the metadata for new releases etc. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
