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Viewserror using pip search (pip search stopped working)
I am getting this error in pip search while studying python. The picture is an error when I pip search. Can you tell me how to fix it?
$ pip search pdbx
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "*/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 224, in _main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "*/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/search.py", line 62, in run
pypi_hits = self.search(query, options)
File "*/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/search.py", line 82, in search
hits = pypi.search({'name': query, 'summary': query}, 'or')
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1112, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1452, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File "*/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/network/xmlrpc.py", line 46, in request
return self.parse_response(response.raw)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1342, in parse_response
return u.close()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/xmlrpc/client.py", line 656, in close
raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
xmlrpc.client.Fault: <Fault -32500: 'RuntimeError: This API has been temporarily disabled due to unmanageable load and will be deprecated in the near future. Please use the Simple or JSON API instead.'>
4 answers
Answer question0
The error says
Please use the Simple or JSON API instead
You can try pypi-simple to query the pip repository
https://pypi.org/project/pypi-simple/
It gives an example too, I tried to use it here:
pypi-simple version 0.8.0 DistributionPackage' object has no attribute 'get_digest':
!/usr/bin/env python3
-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Thu Nov 11 17:40:03 2020
@author: Pietro
"""
from pypi_simple import PyPISimple
def simple():
package=input('\npackage to be checked ')
try:
with PyPISimple() as client:
requests_page = client.get_project_page(package)
except:
print("\n SOMETHING WENT WRONG !!!!! \n\n",
"CHECK INTERNET CONNECTION OR DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED !!!\n")
pkg = requests_page.packages[0]
print(pkg)
print(type(pkg))
print('\n',pkg,'\n')
print('\n'+pkg.filename+'\n')
print('\n'+pkg.url+'\n')
print('\n'+pkg.project+'\n')
print('\n'+pkg.version+'\n')
print('\n'+pkg.package_type+'\n')
#print('\n'+pkg.get_digest()+'\n','ENDs HERE !!!!') #wasnt working
if __name__ == '__main__':
simple()
got -4 so far for this answer don't know why , figureout I can try to check for a package with:
# package_name = input('insert package name : ')
package_name = 'numpy'
import requests
url = ('https://pypi.org/pypi/'+package_name+'/json')
r = requests.get(url)
try:
data = r.json()
for i in data:
if i == 'info':
print('ok')
for j in data[i]:
if j == 'name':
print((data[i])[j])
print([k for k in (data['releases'])])
except:
print('something went south !!!!!!!!!!')
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The pip search command queries PyPI's servers, and PyPI's maintainers have explained that the API endpoint that the pip search command queries is very resource intensive and too expensive for them to always keep open to the public. Consequently they sometimes throttle access and are actually planning to remove it completely soon.
See this GitHub issues thread ...
The solution I am using for now is to pip install pip-search (a utility created by GitHub user @victorgarric).
So, instead of 'pip search', I use pip_search. Definitely beats searching PyPI via a web browser
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search on website, https://pypi.org/, then install the package you wanted