I believe you’re looking for the PEP 503 simple API 
<https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0503/>. This is what pip uses to find the 
hashes (among other things) as well. The hash value is included as a fragment 
in the URL.

TP

> On 12/2/2019, at 23:03, Eric Peterson <epeter...@interactivebrokers.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> When in the "Download files" section of a project on PyPI, next to each 
> download there is a convenient "SHA256" link that will copy the SHA-256 
> fingerprint for that file to the clipboard. I am wondering if there is a 
> programmatic way to access the SHA-256 for a file (besides just scraping the 
> web page)? Ideally there would be some way to construct a URL based on the 
> name of the file that, when called, would return the fingerprint.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
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