pypstats 1.3

First use

Before statistics can be printed or plotted, you need to retrieve statistics and save them locally using pypstats update command:

$ pypstats update ProDy
Fetching content from 'http://pypi.python.org/stats/months/'.
Parsing monthly statistics file details.
Updating statistics for 2010-06.
...
Updating statistics for 2012-01.
Package statistics are updated (ProDy_stats.pkl).

Retrieving statistics at the first use will take some time, since all monthly stats files are downloaded. Note that downloaded files will be save in temporary folder, unless --nocache option is passed. Saving downloaded files will make building stats file for multiple packages faster.

Monthly stats

Monthly statistics can be printed using pypstats monthly command:

$ pypstats monthly ProDy_stats.pkl
Loading statistics from 'ProDy_stats.pkl'.
Month Downloads
2010-11       286
...
2012-01       1041
Total   10664

This information can also be plotted and saved in a .csv file as follows:

$ pypstats monthly -o monthly.csv -p monthly.png ProDy_stats.pkl
Loading statistics from 'ProDy_stats.pkl'.
Monthly statistics are written in 'monthly.csv'.
Monthly downloads plot is saved as 'monthly.png'.

See an example plot here: http://www.csb.pitt.edu/ProDy/reports/pypi_statistics.html

Release stats

Release statistics can be printed using pypstats release command:

$ pypstats release ProDy_stats.pkl
Loading statistics from 'ProDy_stats.pkl'.
Release       Downloads
0.1.0 397
...
0.9.2 328
Total 10664

Similarly, output can be written into a .csv file as follows:

$ pypstats release -o release_stats.csv -q ProDy_stats.pkl

Note that -q argument suppresses messages written to stderr.

Total downloads

Total number of downloads can be printed using pypstats total command:

$ pypstats total -q ProDy_stats.pkl
10664

Latest release

Latest release information can be retrieved using pypstats latest command:

$ pypstats latest -q ProDy
File  URL     md5     Type    Py Version      Size    Downloads
ProDy-0.9.2.tar.gz    http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/ProDy/ProDy-0.9.2.tar.gz       9ad6f6e6012f824ea5e7acb344607eae        Source          711KB   119
ProDy-0.9.2.win32-py2.6.exe   http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/P/ProDy/ProDy-0.9.2.win32-py2.6.exe 51f8587dcc8fe6d0355327d811ea71c3        MS Windows installer    2.6     455KB   47
ProDy-0.9.2.win32-py2.7.exe   http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/P/ProDy/ProDy-0.9.2.win32-py2.7.exe 68ba279f3d9e02b38e4f3e6339b41b26        MS Windows installer    2.7     909KB   53
ProDy-0.9.2.zip       http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/ProDy/ProDy-0.9.2.zip  b447f8b607defd5cda65163e43b32150        Source          744KB   109

This information can be written into a CSV file using reStructured Text style:

$ pypstats latest -q -o latest_release.csv --rst ProDy

This file can be used in a page prepared using Sphinx, see for an example: http://www.csb.pitt.edu/ProDy/getprody.html

Updates

Local statistics file can be updated using pypstats update command:

$ pypstats update -s ProDy_stats.pkl ProDy
Fetching content from 'http://pypi.python.org/stats/months/'.
Parsing monthly statistics file details.
Nothing to update.

This command will make an incremental update by downloading the files that changed since the last update.

Help

To get help, type in a command name with -h argument:

$ pypstats -h
usage: pypstats.py [-h] {latest,monthly,total,update,release} ...

Fetch package download statistics from Python Package Index (PyPI). Package
needs to be distributed via PyPI.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

subcommands:
  {latest,monthly,total,update,release}
    update              retrieve or update download statistics
    latest              retrieve and output latest release information
    monthly             output/plot monthly download statistics
    release             output download statistics by release
    total               output total number of downloads

See 'pypstats <command> -h' for more information on a specific command.

$ pypstats monthly -h
usage: pypstats.py monthly [-h] [-q] [-o FILENAME] [-d DELIMITER]
                           [-p FILENAME] [--dpi INT] [--mlabelstep INT]
                           pkl

positional arguments:
  pkl               package statistics filename

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -q, --quiet       suppress stderr log messages
  -o FILENAME       output CSV filename, if not provided print to stdout
  -d DELIMITER      output column delimiter (default: ' ')
  -p FILENAME       figure filename, requires Matplotlib
  --dpi INT         figure resolution (default: '72')
  --mlabelstep INT  figure month label step (default: '2')

Functions

from pypstats import * imports the following functions which can be used directly in Python code:

• pyps_update(package, pkl, cache) - update package statistics

• pyps_monthly(pkl) - return monthly download statistics

• pyps_release(pkl) - return release download statistics

• pyps_total(pkl) - return total number of downloads

v1.3

• Added new functions that can be used directly in Python code. See usage section above.

• Using timestamps when saving downloaded stats file so that time zone differences do not cause a problem.

v1.2.1

• Fixed an installation problem.

v1.2

• Renamed script pypstats to pyps.

• Downloaded stats files are save to temp folder. When multiple package stats are updated consequently, content is read from this folder.

v1.1

• Renamed command current to latest.