List PyPI packages by popularity

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styts picture styts · Jun 24, 2015 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

Is it possible to obtain a list of PyPI packages ordered by popularity (number of total downloads)?

I am unable to find a way to do this on PyPI. Perhaps PyPI provides a database dump for this purpose?

If I'm unable to find a simpler way, I plan to scrape PyPI using their JSON API.

Answer

David Anderson picture David Anderson · Oct 10, 2015

The Python Wheels site lists the top 360 most-downloaded packages on PyPI showing which have been uploaded as wheel archives.

https://pythonwheels.com

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