Top PyPI Packages

A monthly dump of the 8,000 most-downloaded packages from PyPI:

• https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/top-pypi-packages-30-days.min.json

Unminified:

• https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/top-pypi-packages-30-days.json

Note: It now takes too much quota to collect data for 365 days. Those files were last updated on 2021-04-01 and have been removed. Old versions can be found in releases.

Server setup notes

From cron, it runs pypinfo to dump JSON and commit back to this repo.

Install jq and zip

For example on Ubuntu 22.04:

sudo apt-get install jq zip

Install and set up pypinfo

Follow https://github.com/ofek/pypinfo to sign up for BigQuery, install and authenticate.

pip3 install "pypinfo>=13.0.0"
pypinfo --help
pypinfo --auth path/to/your_credentials.json

Set up this repo

git clone [email protected]:hugovk/top-pypi-packages.git
cd top-pypi-packages
git config user.name "Deploy Bot"
git config user.email "[email protected]"
git config user.name
git config user.email

• Create SSH key on server: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ssh-keys-with-digitalocean-droplets
• Add your SSH key to the ssh-agent: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/#adding-your-ssh-key-to-the-ssh-agent
• Add deploy key with write access at https://github.com/hugovk/top-pypi-packages/settings/keys/new

Run from cron

crontab -e
# First of the month
30 17 1 * * ( eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"; ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa-top-pypi-packages; /home/botuser/github/top-pypi-packages/top-pypi-packages.sh ) > /tmp/top-pypi-packages.log 2>&1

Thanks

Thanks to DigitalOcean for supporting open-source software.