PyPI's XML-RPC methods
Example usage:
>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> import pprint
>>> client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://pypi.python.org/pypi')
>>> client.package_releases('roundup')
['1.4.10']
>>> pprint.pprint(client.release_urls('roundup', '1.4.10'))
[{'comment_text': '',
'downloads': 3163,
'filename': 'roundup-1.1.2.tar.gz',
'has_sig': True,
'md5_digest': '7c395da56412e263d7600fa7f0afa2e5',
'packagetype': 'sdist',
'python_version': 'source',
'size': 876455,
'upload_time': <DateTime '20060427T06:22:35' at 912fecc>,
'url': 'http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/roundup/roundup-1.1.2.tar.gz'},
{'comment_text': '',
'downloads': 2067,
'filename': 'roundup-1.1.2.win32.exe',
'has_sig': True,
'md5_digest': '983d565b0b87f83f1b6460e54554a845',
'packagetype': 'bdist_wininst',
'python_version': 'any',
'size': 614270,
'upload_time': <DateTime '20060427T06:26:04' at 912fdec>,
'url': 'http://pypi.python.org/packages/any/r/roundup/roundup-1.1.2.win32.exe'}]list_packages()
- Retrieve a list of the package names registered with the package index. Returns a list of name strings.
package_releases(package_name, show_hidden=False)
- Retrieve a list of the releases registered for the given package_name. Returns a list with all version strings if show_hidden is True or only the non-hidden ones otherwise.
package_roles(package_name)
- Retrieve a list of users and their attributes roles for a given package_name. Role is either 'Maintainer' or 'Owner'.
user_packages(user)
- Retrieve a list of packages and attributes roles for a given username.
release_downloads(package_name, version)
- Retrieve a list of files and download count for a given package and release version.
release_urls(package_name, version)
- Retrieve a list of download URLs for the given package release. Returns a list of dicts with the following keys:
- url
- packagetype ('sdist', 'bdist', etc)
- filename
- size
- md5_digest
- downloads
- has_sig
- python_version (required version, or 'source', or 'any')
- comment_text
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)
- requires
- requires_dist
- provides
- provides_dist
- requires_external
- requires_python
- obsoletes
- obsoletes_dist
- project_url
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']}. Valid keys for the spec dict are listed here. Invalid keys are ignored:
- name
- version
- author
- author_email
- maintainer
- maintainer_email
- home_page
- license
- summary
- description
- keywords
- platform
- download_url
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.


