Just FYI, PyPi already has an RSS feed: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=rss
And instead of mailing the author, you should probably open an issue (or better yet, a pull request) at https://github.com/crateio/crate.web/issues For that matter - how does crate.io update their PyPi mirror? Cheers, Philipp On 02/21/2013 02:52 PM, Michael Herman wrote: > 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. > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Philipp Hagemeister <phi...@phihag.de>wrote: > >> Hi Gregg, >> >> to get a smaller response, you can simply pass in a timestamp, like this: >> >>>>> client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://pypi.python.org/pypi') >>>>> import time >>>>> client.changelog(int(time.time() - 600)) >> [['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 >> >> >> On 02/18/2013 02:16 AM, Gregg Caines wrote: >>> 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> >> >
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