qypi
is a command-line client for querying & searching the Python Package Index for Python package information and outputting JSON (with some minor opinionated changes to the output data structures; see the examples below).
qypi
requires Python 3.4 or newer. Just use version 6.0 or higher of pip for Python 3 (You have pip, right?) to install qypi
and its dependencies:
pip3 install qypi
qypi [-i|--index-url <URL>] <command> [<options>] [<arguments>]
-i <URL>
,--index-url <URL>
— Query the Python package server at the given URL, which must support both the XML-RPC and JSON APIs. By default,qypi
queries Warehouse athttps://pypi.org/pypi
; to use the current/legacy PyPI instance instead, set the index URL tohttps://pypi.python.org/pypi
.
qypi list
List all packages registered on PyPI, one per line, in the order that they are returned by the API. list
and readme
are the only subcommands that do not output JSON.
qypi search [--and|--or] [--packages|--releases] <term> ...
Search PyPI for packages or package releases matching the given search terms. Search terms consist of a field name and a value separated by a colon; a term without a colon searches the description
field. As documented here, the supported searchable fields are:
name
version
author
author_email
maintainer
maintainer_email
home_page
(alias:url
)license
summary
description
(aliases:long_description
andreadme
)keywords
platform
download_url
All other fields are ignored.
Multiple search terms referring to the same field are combined with logical OR. Search terms on different fields are combined according to whether --and
or --or
is specified on the command line; the default behavior is --and
.
By default, search
lists every matching release for every package, even if the same package has multiple matching releases. To list no more than one release (specifically, the highest-versioned) per package, specify the -p
/--packages
option on the command line. -r
/--releases
restores the default behavior.
qypi browse [-f|--file <file>] [--packages|--releases] <classifier> ...
List packages or package releases with the given trove classifiers. Because trove classifiers are not the most command-line friendly thing in the world, they may optionally be read from a file, one classifier per line. Any further classifiers listed on the command line will be added to the file's list.
By default, browse
lists every matching release for every package, even if the same package has multiple matching releases. To list no more than one release (specifically, the highest-versioned) per package, specify the -p
/--packages
option on the command line. -r
/--releases
restores the default behavior.
qypi owned <user> ...
List packages owned or maintained by the given PyPI users
qypi releases <package> ...
List the released versions for the given packages in PEP 440 order
Example:
$ qypi releases qypi
{
"qypi": [
{
"is_prerelease": false,
"release_date": "2017-04-02T03:07:42",
"release_url": "https://pypi.org/project/qypi/0.1.0",
"version": "0.1.0"
},
{
"is_prerelease": false,
"release_date": "2017-04-02T03:32:44",
"release_url": "https://pypi.org/project/qypi/0.1.0.post1",
"version": "0.1.0.post1"
}
]
}
A release's release date is the time at which its first file was uploaded. If there are no files associated with a release, its release date will be null
.
qypi owner <package> ...
List the PyPI users that own and/or maintain the given packages
Example:
$ qypi owner requests
{
"requests": [
{
"role": "Owner",
"user": "graffatcolmingov"
},
{
"role": "Owner",
"user": "kennethreitz"
},
{
"role": "Owner",
"user": "Lukasa"
},
{
"role": "Maintainer",
"user": "graffatcolmingov"
},
{
"role": "Maintainer",
"user": "Lukasa"
},
{
"role": "Maintainer",
"user": "nateprewitt"
}
]
}
These subcommands show information about individual package releases/versions and share the same command-line options and argument syntax.
Arguments of the form package==version
(e.g., qypi info qypi==0.1.0
) always refer to the given version of the given package.
Arguments that are just a package name refer to (by default) the highest-numbered non-prerelease version of the package. This can be changed with the following options:
--all-versions
/--latest-version
— Show information for all versions (in PEP 440 order, excluding prereleases unless--pre
is given)/only the latest version of each package; default: latest only--all-versions
may optionally be written-A
.
--newest
/--highest
— Define "latest version" to mean the most recently released/highest-numbered version; default: highest-numbered.--newest
determines release dates based on file upload times; releases without file uploads are thus ignored.--pre
/--no-pre
— Include/don't include prerelease & development versions; default: don't include
qypi info [<options>] [--description] [--trust-downloads] <package[==version]> ...
Show basic information about the given package releases.
By default, (long) descriptions are omitted because they can be very long, and it is recommended that you view them with the readme
subcommand instead; use the --description
option to include them anyway.
By default, download counts are omitted because the feature is currently broken & unreliable; use the --trust-downloads
option if you want to see the values anyway.
Example:
$ qypi info qypi
[
{
"bugtrack_url": null,
"classifiers": [
"Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
"Environment :: Console",
"Intended Audience :: Developers",
"Intended Audience :: Information Technology",
"License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
"Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
"Topic :: System :: Software Distribution"
],
"docs_url": null,
"download_url": null,
"keywords": "pypi warehouse search packages pip",
"license": "MIT",
"name": "qypi",
"people": [
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"name": "John Thorvald Wodder II",
"role": "author"
}
],
"platform": null,
"project_url": "https://pypi.org/project/qypi/",
"release_date": "2017-04-02T03:32:44",
"release_url": "https://pypi.org/project/qypi/0.1.0.post1/",
"requires_python": "~=3.4",
"summary": "Query PyPI from the command line",
"url": "https://github.com/jwodder/qypi",
"version": "0.1.0.post1"
}
]
qypi readme [<options>] <package[==version]> ...
Display the given package releases' (long) descriptions in a pager one at a time. list
and readme
are the only subcommands that do not output JSON.
qypi files [<options>] [--trust-downloads] <package[==version]> ...
List files available for download for the given package releases. Download counts are omitted because the feature is currently broken & unreliable; use the --trust-downloads
option if you want to see the values anyway.
Example:
$ qypi files qypi
[
{
"files": [
{
"comment_text": "",
"digests": {
"md5": "58863d77e19bf4aa1ae85026cc1ff0f6",
"sha256": "5946a4557550479af90278e5418cd2c32a2626936075078a4c7096be52d43078"
},
"filename": "qypi-0.1.0.post1-py3-none-any.whl",
"has_sig": true,
"md5_digest": "58863d77e19bf4aa1ae85026cc1ff0f6",
"packagetype": "bdist_wheel",
"python_version": "py3",
"size": 13590,
"upload_time": "2017-04-02T03:32:44",
"url": "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f9/3f/6b184713e79da15cd451f0dab91864633175242f4d321df0cacdd2dc8300/qypi-0.1.0.post1-py3-none-any.whl"
},
{
"comment_text": "",
"digests": {
"md5": "bfd357b3df2c2f1cbb6d23ff7c61fbb9",
"sha256": "c99eea315455cf9fde722599ab67eeefdff5c184bb3861a7fd82f8a9387c252d"
},
"filename": "qypi-0.1.0.post1.tar.gz",
"has_sig": true,
"md5_digest": "bfd357b3df2c2f1cbb6d23ff7c61fbb9",
"packagetype": "sdist",
"python_version": "source",
"size": 8975,
"upload_time": "2017-04-02T03:32:46",
"url": "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0e/49/3056ee68b44c8eab4d4698b52ae4d18c0db92c80abc312894c02c4722621/qypi-0.1.0.post1.tar.gz"
}
],
"name": "qypi",
"version": "0.1.0.post1"
}
]