Just noticed that pypi.org no longer works without JS.

Umm... you people really want to extract every bit of joy out of life, don't you?

I had a great workaround for the search feature you ripped out of pip, and now *that* no longer works. >:(

#Python# #PyPI

@hugovk

Ah, that's awful :(

Even if they just provided something like a downloadable daily export of the list, that would be enough. I just hate to have to use a web browser for everything.

@RL_Dane @hugovk Maybe the simple index can help you out? https://docs.pypi.org/api/index-api/#list-all-projects

@miketheman @hugovk

Man, I can't imagine snarfing an 29 MiB html file being easier on the server than a simple query, but this will do very nicely for my purposes, thank you. I wish it had a brief description as well, but it's totally better than nothing.

I'll definitely cache it for a week or so in my script so I'm not grabbing it each time I do a search.

Just in case anyone's curious, the script I use is here: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/searchall
It's the "-p" option.

@RL_Dane @hugovk The index is heavily cached at the edge, so there's no impact on server side. Since search is effectively an unbounded context, the backend gets called every time.
Glad to see you were able to make it work!

@miketheman @hugovk

Thanks so much!

If you find out about a variant that has short descriptions like:

`pelican - Static site generator supporting Markdown and reStructuredText`

Please let me know! Thanks!! <3