vanity 1.2.4

Easy access to package download statistics from the Python Package Index, via the command line

Introduction

Easy access to package download statistics from the Python Package Index, via the command line:

$ vanity django
Django-1.1.3.tar.gz     2010-12-23    2,643
Django-1.1.4.tar.gz     2011-02-09    4,629
  Django-1.2.tar.gz     2010-05-17   16,148
Django-1.2.1.tar.gz     2010-05-24   65,379
Django-1.2.2.tar.gz     2010-09-09    2,482
Django-1.2.3.tar.gz     2010-09-11   74,277
Django-1.2.4.tar.gz     2010-12-23   50,307
Django-1.2.5.tar.gz     2011-02-09   64,545
Django-1.2.6.tar.gz     2011-09-10      470
Django-1.2.7.tar.gz     2011-09-11    7,291
  Django-1.3.tar.gz     2011-03-23  246,589
Django-1.3.1.tar.gz     2011-09-10  207,103
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Django has been downloaded 741,863 times!

Installation

Install via:

$ pip install vanity

Or:

$ easy_install vanity

Or download the distribution (i.e. compressed archive), extract it, and inside run:

$ python setup.py install

Advanced options

To supress the display of file name, upload date, and download count for each release, specify quiet mode with -q or --quiet:

$ vanity django -q
Django has been downloaded 741,863 times!

Credits

Based on code from Products.PloneSoftwareCenter written by David Glick.

Changelog

1.2.4 (2013-02-19)

• Use https for PyPI now [aclark]

• Return usage statement when no args passed [aclark]

1.2.3 (2012-08-08)

• Use optparse for option and argument parsing. [JNRowe]

• Don’t fail when the en_US locale isn’t available. [JNRowe]

• Python 3 compatibility. [JNRowe]

1.2.2 (2012-07-31)

• Remove blessings for Windows compat [aclark]

1.2.1 (2012-02-15)

• Make verbose the default [aclark]

• Add blessings support to make output pretty [aclark]

• install_requires requests for future refactor [aclark]

• Enforce available command line options better [aclark]

1.2.0 (2012-01-30)

• Add verbose option to display file name, upload date, and download count per release. [aclark]

• Add locale to format downloads e.g. “700,232 times” instead of “700232 times”. [aclark]

• Better handling of command line args and usage. [aclark]

1.1.2 (2011-10-28)

• Fix regression: Re-fix download counts. [JNRowe]

1.1.1 (2011-10-27)

• Refactor: create downloads_total function to make external use simpler. [kennethreitz]

1.1.0 (2011-10-25)

• Bug fixes: support for case insensitive project names and support for counting all release files (e.g. binaries in addition to sdist) and correct number of release files (bug fix). [JNRowe]

• Package cleanup [aclark]

1.0 (04-13-2011)

• Initial release [aclark]