JSON API for PyPi - how to list packages?

Question

There is a JSON API for PyPI which allows getting data for packages:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi//json
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/

        

Answer 1

I tried this answer, but it's not working on Python 3.6

I found one solution with HTML parsing by using lxml package, But you have to install it via pip command as

pip install lxml

Then, try the following snippet

from lxml import html
import requests

response = requests.get("https://pypi.org/simple/")

tree = html.fromstring(response.content)

package_list = [package for package in tree.xpath('//a/text()')]