pepy.tech get download statistics about any python project

[Petru Rares Sincraian]

Hi there,

I want to announce that 3 months ago I started https://pepy.tech/ with the goal to show download information about any python project in an easy way. The project has evolved satisfactorily and, in my opinion, is mature enough to show it to the python community. I hope you will find it useful :-)

Also, the project is open source https://github.com/psincraian/pepy

Any suggestion is welcome :-)

[Eli Pronin]

Hello,

what'd you think about adding JSON API? Would be great for using pepy in packaging-related tools.

[Petru Rares Sincraian]

Hello Eli,

Many thanks for the suggestions. It will not be too much complicated to add an api endpoint to retrieve the downloads, maybe this weekend I will implement it.

Do you have any idea of how to use this data?

[Eli Pronin]

Hi Petru,

Thanks for reply. I could integrate PEPY into my GUI for pip, called pips.

As you can see on the first screenshot, PIPS shows some package info in

the tooltip. Since download stats had been removed from PyPi, PIPS haven't had

any simple provider for that, and here PEPY came out.

Another use is sorting search results by download rate, thus, most

popular packages have to be shown at the beginning of the install suggestions list (second screenshot).

There're some other PyPi stats tools, like pypi-cli which I guess are broken now and could switch to a new API as well.