pypi-cli

A command-line interface to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Get package info, download statistics, and more.

Get it now

$ pip install pypi-cli

Requirements

• Python >= 2.7 or >= 3.3

Examples

Get Package Info

Use the pypi info command to get summary information for a package.

$ pypi info matplotlib

matplotlib
==========
Python plotting package

Latest release:   1.3.1

Last day:           2,015
Last week:         16,744
Last month:        59,989

Author:   John D. Hunter, Michael Droettboom
Author email: mdroe@stsci.edu

PyPI URL:  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/matplotlib
Home Page: http://matplotlib.org

License: BSD

Get Download Statistics

Use the pypi stat command to get download statistics for a package.

$ pypi stat numpy

Fetching statistics for 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy'. . .

Download statistics for numpy
=============================

Downloads by version
1.0     06/12/02 [ 1,904     ] *
1.3.0   09/04/06 [ 34,900    ] **
1.4.1   10/04/24 [ 17,977    ] *
1.5.0   10/09/15 [ 23,462    ] **
1.5.1   10/11/18 [ 49,311    ] ***
1.6.0   11/05/14 [ 39,431    ] **
1.6.1   11/07/24 [ 168,287   ] ********
1.6.2   12/05/20 [ 374,288   ] ******************
1.7.0   13/02/12 [ 147,759   ] *******
1.7.1   13/04/07 [ 1,006,008 ] **********************************************
1.8.0   13/10/30 [ 513,208   ] ************************
1.7.2   13/12/31 [ 2,974     ] *
1.8.1   14/03/26 [ 356,674   ] *****************

Min downloads:          1,904 (1.0)
Max downloads:      1,006,008 (1.7.1)
Avg downloads:        210,475
Total downloads:    2,736,183

Last day:           3,901
Last week:         44,842
Last month:       182,480

Browse to a Package's PyPI or homepage

Use pypi browse to open a package's PyPI url in your browser.

$ pypi browse textblob

You can also go to a package's homepage.

$ pypi browse textblob --homepage

Search For Packages

Use pypi search to search for PyPI packages.

$ pypi search 'requests oauth'

Search results for "requests oauth"
suds_requests
oauth
requests
requests-oauthlib
requests-foauth
requests-oauth
requests-oauth2
wsgioauth
pmr2.oauth
django-oauth-plus

More

To get help or list available commands:

$ pypi --help

You can also get help with subcommands:

$ pypi stat --help

License

MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE file for more details.