Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: scrapypi
Version: 0.0.8
Summary: Get PyPi Package information.
Author: Erasmus A. Junior
Author-email: eirasmx@pm.me
License: GNU LGPLv3
Keywords: pypi,information,package,module,stats,info,scrape
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Requires-Python: >=3.7
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENCE.txt

**scrapypi is used to get pypi package information using python.**

scrapypi can be used to get package version, name, licence, author, summary and package download statistics.

## **Insallation**

> python -m pip install scrapypi

## **Usage**

Type **scrapypi** in terminal or command prompt to scrapypi file for getting downloads statistics. scrapypi can also be used in code.

```bash
$ scrapypi
```

Below are examples and functions and classes in scrapypi for data fetching.

- info
- stats
- version

### **info**

Get package information. You can either get information using package name or package pypi url.

```python
from scrapypi import info, stats, licence

# returns a dictionary of information.
info(<package_name>)
```

values returned by info() is listed below:

- name
- author
- licence
- summary
- previous_version
- latest version
- downloads

### **stats**

Get package full statistics, including download values everyday of package upload, date and number of downloads.

```python
from scrapypi import stats

statistics = stats(<package_name>)

# get all daily download counts of package in the year.
statistics.dataset()

# get total number of downloads.
statistics.get_total()
```

### **version**

You can also get package name and version using the version function.

```python
from scrapypi import version

# returns package name and version in a tuple. (name, version)
version(<package_name>)
```

> Use the version function if you need to get those information fast. But i recommend using the info function.

### **main**

The main function is to get a statics view of packages and also compare the statistics of multiple packages. Use the **main()** function to run the scrapypi script for statistics fetcher. Fetching multiple packages needs to be seperated with a comma (,)

```
Package Name(s): package_one, package_two
```
