Is there a modern equivalent to PyPI's XML-RPC .top_packages() ?

[cclauss]

Is there a more modern, supported way of determining the relative popularity of all PyPI packages?

The legacy PyPI XML RPC API's top_packages() call returns a sorted list of packages ranked by number of downloads. My sense is that the number of downloads does not include pip installs. (Is that correct?)

The simple API returns 106,086 while https://pypi.org says 106,147 Projects and top_packages() returns only 96,104.

import bs4
import requests
import xmlrpclib

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(requests.get('https://pypi.org/simple/').text, 'lxml')
links = soup.find_all('a')
print(len(links))  # 106,086
print(len(set(links)))  # 106,086

client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('https://pypi.org/pypi')
print(len(client.top_packages()))  # 96,104

[dstufft]

The best method is to query BigQuery directly: https://langui.sh/2016/12/09/data-driven-decisions/

downloads hasn't been reliabily updating for some time :/

[cclauss]

Perfect!