On 18/07/2021 10.15, Chris Green wrote: > Mark Lawrence <breamore...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 1:03:21 PM UTC+1, Chris Green wrote: >>> Every time I go to pypi.org to look for a neat utility or something I >>> curse the stupid search. >>> >>> Is there really no better search available? Apart from anything else >>> it appears to OR the elements together so, for example, I wanted to >>> search for programs/libraries that will allow me to access Google >>> Contacts:- >>> >>> Putting the words Google and Contacts in the search box produces >>> more than 10000 hits. >>> >>> Putting just Google in the search box produces 8,629 projects. >>> >>> So, it would appear the terms are OR'ed together, surely OR'ing terms >>> in a search (by default) went out with the ark! >>> >>> When I put 'Google contacts' in the search box I want projects that >>> have both 'Google' AND 'Contacts' in their description somewhere! >>> (... and, no, I tried 'Google AND Contacts', still more than 10000 >>> results). >>> >>> pypi.org is a wonderful resource but its size now demands a better >>> search engine. >>> >> >> As this is an open source project I'm looking forward to the huge amount >> of work that you personally will be putting in to remedy this situation. >> In summary put up or shut up :) > > I'm quite happy to help, however I was just asking (maybe rather more > agressively than I should have done) if I was missing something > obvious. E.g. is there some syntax that I don't know about that I can > use in the search box, or maybe I should use an external search engine? > > ... and Open Source doesn't mean one can't criticise surely, rather > the opposite! :-) (I have, by the way, contributed in a minor way to > quite a few open source projects over the years, and that's a lot of > years! I even have a small credit in the 'bible' for the Kermit file > transfer protocol, remember that?)
PyPI used to have a search API. The XML-RPC endpoints were disabled last year due to flooding. Our infrastructure could not cope with abusive queries. You can read the log of events at https://status.python.org/ Christian -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
