Why PyPi doesn't show download stats anymore?

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d-d picture d-d · Jun 29, 2016 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

It was so handy to get an idea if the package is popular or not (even if its popularity is the reason of some "import" case in another popular package). But now I don't see this info for some reason.

An example: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blist

Why did they turn off this useful thing?

Answer

petrusqui picture petrusqui · Mar 10, 2018

I just released https://pepy.tech/ to view the downloads of a package. I used the data from BigQuery so you will get the same result :-)

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