pypiage

A package for finding the least updated packages your project depends on.

Install

pip install pypiage

Usage

Quickly get the least updated packages referenced in your requirements.txt:

cat requirements.txt | pypiage

Find our when a certain python package was last updated:

echo django | pypiage

Output

You get a pipe | separated list of <package-name>|<upload-date> where upload-date is the last recorded time the package was uploaded to PyPi.

For example:

Given a requirements.txt like:

Flask==2.2.0
requests==2.28.0
numpy==1.24.2

When you give that file to pypiage:

pypiage requirements.txt

The output will list the latest uploaded date of the packages you gave pypiage:

INFO:pypiage:Getting package info for Flask
INFO:pypiage:Getting package info for requests
INFO:pypiage:Getting package info for numpy
requests|2023-01-12 16:24:54
numpy|2023-02-05 20:12:05
Flask|2023-02-15 22:43:57

Note:
If you don't like the INFO log output, then you can turn logging off with: PYTHON_LOGLEVEL=ERROR pypiage requirements.txt to get less verbose output:

requests|2023-01-12 16:24:54
numpy|2023-02-05 20:12:05
Flask|2023-02-15 22:43:57

Remember you can also cat a list of packages to pypiage and it will read from standard input:

cat requirements.txt | pypiage

Why does this exist?

I found myself with a large codebase and wanted to quicky get a sense of which package dependencies were likley no longer maintained (and therefore candidates for removal), and checking their last upload date is a reasonable first pass check.