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Reputation:

How to get total number of packages in pypi?

pip list  --format=columns |wc -l
73

It shows that 73 packages installed on my local pc.
How to get total number of packages in pypi remote official server?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1247

Answers (1)

CM.
CM.

Reputation: 1047

What about parsing PyPI's official webpage? If you'd like to do so, we can use requests package to get the content of the page and extract the content we want using BeautifulSoup package from the page like this.

This is the content that are extracting. We'll need to install requests and beautifulsoup4 packages if you haven't already. 

pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4

Request and parse:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

response = requests.get("https://pypi.python.org/pypi")
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
print(soup.select('div.section > p > strong')[0].get_text())

Upvotes: 3

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