Download counts per file are available in the JSON output (ex. 
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Django/1.5.4/json), maybe if you offer Donald some 
new beer or something he can add the package-level rolling counts too.

--Noah

On Sep 25, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Dustin Oprea <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to throw-together a little website widget that displays how many 
> downloads one or more PyPI projects are getting. I'd then like to wrap it in 
> a modest WordPress plugin. 
> 
> 
> I could do it in Javascript that directly scrapes the requested PyPI page(s), 
> but then it's be scraping PyPI from every page it's used, on every pageload. 
> It be costly to PyPI, and have a delay on the webpage. If I write a small 
> service endpoint, I could cache all of the information and lower the traffic 
> burden, and decrease the load time.
> 
> I'll only do this if I can I host the service endpoint on python.org, though. 
> Would I be able to?
> 
> 
> Dustin Oprea (http://dustinoprea.com/)
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