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

Here's Bash one-liner:

curl -sG -H 'Host: pypi.org' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://pypi.org/pypi/numpy/json | awk -F "description\":\"" '{ print $2 }' |cut -d ',' -f 1

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