pypi changelog api

[Gregg Caines]

Hey all,

I'm trying to write a script that tracks changes on pypi, and I've come across the xmlrpc interface, specifically the 'changelog' api. It's definitely what I'm looking for, but I get an absolutely massive xml response from it at once and I was hoping there might be either some way to "page" throughit with mulitple requests, or a different-but-similar API.

Thanks in advance,
Gregg

 

[Philipp Hagemeister]

Hi Gregg,

to get a smaller response, you can simply pass in a timestamp, like this:
[['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1', 1361451748, 'update description,
classifiers'], ['numericalunits', '1.11', 1361451759, 'new release'],
['numericalunits', '1.11', 1361451760, 'add source file
numericalunits-1.11.tar.gz'], ['autobahn_rce', '0.6.0', 1361451798,
'remove'], ['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1', 1361451816, 'update
description, classifiers'], ['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1',
1361451882, 'update description, classifiers'], ['autobahn_rce',
'0.5.9', 1361451956, 'new release'], ['autobahn_rce', '0.5.9',
1361451971, 'add source file autobahn_rce-0.5.9.tar.gz']]

I don't think there's way to get older chunks of the changelog though.
What would you need those for?

If you need the entire changelog, just download it once (it's not that
large, barely 40MB). Here it is, up until 1361452402 (now):

http://phihag.de/2013/pypi-changelog-2013-02-20.json.bz2

What I'd like is a real-time push service of changelog entries, but I'm
not certain that would be scalable.

Cheers,

Philipp

Hey all,

I'm trying to write a script that tracks changes on pypi, and I've comeacross the xmlrpc interface, specifically the 'changelog' api. It's definitely what I'm looking for, but I get an absolutely massive xml response from it at once and I was hoping there might be either some way to "page" through it with mulitple requests, or a different-but-similar API.

Thanks in advance,
Gregg

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[Michael Herman]

I'd love to see https://crate.io/ set up an API or at the very least an RSS
feed for tracking changes. I've emailed the author about this. I think if
enough people do, an RSS feed would be easy to setup.

Hi Gregg,

to get a smaller response, you can simply pass in a timestamp, like this:
[['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1', 1361451748, 'update description,
classifiers'], ['numericalunits', '1.11', 1361451759, 'new release'],
['numericalunits', '1.11', 1361451760, 'add source file
numericalunits-1.11.tar.gz'], ['autobahn_rce', '0.6.0', 1361451798,
'remove'], ['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1', 1361451816, 'update
description, classifiers'], ['vs.bootstrap.plonetheme', '1.0.1',
1361451882, 'update description, classifiers'], ['autobahn_rce',
'0.5.9', 1361451956, 'new release'], ['autobahn_rce', '0.5.9',
1361451971, 'add source file autobahn_rce-0.5.9.tar.gz']]

I don't think there's way to get older chunks of the changelog though.
What would you need those for?

If you need the entire changelog, just download it once (it's not that
large, barely 40MB). Here it is, up until 1361452402 (now):

http://phihag.de/2013/pypi-changelog-2013-02-20.json.bz2

What I'd like is a real-time push service of changelog entries, but I'm
not certain that would be scalable.

Cheers,

Philipp

Hey all,

I'm trying to write a script that tracks changes on pypi, and I've come

across the xmlrpc interface, specifically the 'changelog' api. It's
definitely what I'm looking for, but I get an absolutely massive xml
response from it at once and I was hoping there might be either some way to
"page" through it with mulitple requests, or a different-but-similar API.

Thanks in advance,
Gregg