# pypi-command-line
`pypi-command-line` is a **colorful**, **powerful**, and **beautiful** command line interface for [pypi.org](https://pypi.org "The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.") that is actively maintained
Detailed Documentation available at <https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/>
## Features
- π Extremely intuitive and easy to use.
- π Beautiful UI with pleasant colors *everywhere*.
- π Emojis in responses and errors.
- π° Great Markdown and reStructuredText support for viewing project descriptions.
- π Many features (There are optional parameters for extra information too!).
- See in-depth information about a package including it's download count and github repo stats.
- See beautifully rendered markdown/rst/plain text description of a package
- Search for packages with the same information as pypi and even filter them.
- Search for packages with regex, for example using `flask-.+` will show all flask extensions.
- Browse for a package's URLs and open any of those URLs inside a browser with a beautiful colored link selection menu
- See all the releases of a package, along with when they were made and their size.
- See New projects and new releases [just like PyPI](https://pypi.org#pypi-trending-packages).
- See top 100 of the largest packages [just like PyPI](https://pypi.org/stats/).
- Many more... (
command list includes
[`browse`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#browse),
[`information`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#information),
[`description`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#description),
[`search`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#search),
[`wheels`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#wheels),
[`releases`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#releases),
[`largest-files`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#largest-files),
[`regex-search`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#regex-search),
[`version`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#version),
[`cache-info`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#cache-info),
[`cache-refresh`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#cache-refresh),
[`cache-clear`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#cache-clear),
[`new-packages`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#new-packages),
[`new-releases`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#new-releases),
[`read-the-docs`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#read-the-docs)
)
- π» Cross-platform.
- π€― Open source.
- π Extensive documentation.
## Info
<details open>
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### Download Count
I've included both [PePy](https://pepy.tech/) and [PyPIStats](https://pypistats.org/) since PyPIStats by default does not include mirrors in it's count<sup>[1](https://pypistats.org/faqs#why-are-the-cumulative-download-counts-different-from-the-sum-of)</sup>. Also see <https://github.com/psincraian/pepy/issues/351>
| Period | From [PePy](https://pepy.tech/project/pypi-command-line) | From [PyPiStats](https://pypistats.org/packages/pypi-command-line) |
| ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Day | | [![Downloads yesterday](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dd/pypi-command-line?label=Day&labelColor=black&color=orange)](https://pypistats.org/packages/pypi-command-line) |
| Week | [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/personalized-badge/pypi-command-line?period=week&units=none&left_color=black&right_color=blue&left_text=Week)](https://pepy.tech/project/pypi-command-line) | [![Downloads in the last 7 days](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dw/pypi-command-line?label=Week&labelColor=black&color=orange)](https://pypistats.org/packages/pypi-command-line) |
| Month | [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/personalized-badge/pypi-command-line?period=month&units=none&left_color=black&right_color=blue&left_text=Month)](https://pepy.tech/project/pypi-command-line) | [![Downloads in the last 30 days](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/pypi-command-line?label=Month&labelColor=black&color=orange)](https://pypistats.org/packages/pypi-command-line) |
| Total | [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/personalized-badge/pypi-command-line?period=total&units=none&left_color=black&right_color=blue&left_text=Total)](https://pepy.tech/project/pypi-command-line) |
### Meta
| Title | Badge |
| ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Version | [![Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pypi-command-line?label=pypi%20version&style=flat-square&logo=pypi&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-command-line/) |
| Wheel availability | [![PyPI Wheel availability](https://img.shields.io/pypi/wheel/pypi-command-line?label=pypi%20wheel%20availabile%3F&style=flat-square&logo=pypi&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-command-line/#files) |
| Supported python versions | [![Supported python versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/pypi-command-line?label=supported%20python%20versions&style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-command-line/#:~:text=requires%3A%20python%20%3E%3D3.6) |
| Python Implementation | [![Python Implementation](https://img.shields.io/pypi/implementation/pypi-command-line?label=python%20implementation&style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-command-line/#:~:text=programming%20language) |
### GitHub
| Title | Badge |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Number of issues open | [![Number of issues open](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white&label=issues%20open)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/issues) |
| Number of issues closed | [![Number of issues closed](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-closed/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?label=issues%20closed&style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/issues?q=is%3Aissue++is%3Aclosed+) |
| Number of pull requests | [![Number of pull requests](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-pr-closed/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white&label=pull%20requests)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/pulls) |
| Number of stars | [![Number of stars on GitHub](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/stargazers) |
### Misc
| Title | Badge |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Documentation status | [![Documentation status](https://img.shields.io/website?down_color=red&down_message=not%20working&label=docs&logo=github&style=flat-square&up_color=blue&up_message=working&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwasi-master.github.io%2Fpypi-command-line%2F)](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line) |
| Lines of code | [![Lines of code](https://img.shields.io/tokei/lines/github/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/) |
</details>
## Screenshots
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Command name and parameter autocompletion
![Autocomplete](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/autocomplete%20example.gif "Autocomplete")
Smart error handling
![Error Handling](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/error%20handling.gif "Error Handling")
Auto command aliases
![Smart Command Aliasing](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/smart_alias.png "Smart Command Aliasing")
Search feature that gives the same results as on PyPI
![Search for a package using PyPI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20search.gif "Search for a package using PyPI")
See detailed information about a project
![See project information](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20info.gif "See project information")
View the project description right in your terminal with rich Markdown and reStructuredText formatting
![Get description from PyPI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20desc.gif "Get description from PyPI")
View the project readme from github
![Get readme content from GitHub](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20desc%20github.gif "Get readme content from GitHub")
Search for packages using regular expressions
![Search for packages using regex](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20rsearch.gif "Search for packages using regex")
Open the package's URLs gotten from PyPI
![Browse for URLs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20browse%20aligned.gif "Browse for URLs")
See the project information with classifiers
![See project information with classifiers](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20info%20with%20classifiers.gif "See !project information with classifiers")
See the all time largest projects in PyPI
![See all time largest projects in PyPI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20largest-files.gif "See all time largest !projects in PyPI")
Install autocompletion for the current shell
![Install Completion](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20--install-completion.gif "Install Completion")
See the source code for the autocompletion
![Show Completion](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20--show-completion.gif "Show Completion")
See a specific page of the search results
![Specify a page to search to](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20search%20with%20page.gif "Specify a page to search to")
</details>
## Installation
- Installing from PyPI (recommended).
```sh
pip install pypi-command-line
```
If you want to also install [speed dependencies](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/notes#speedups)
```sh
pip install "pypi-command-line[speedups]"
```
- Installing from source.
```sh
pip install git+https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line.git
```
If you want to also install [speed dependencies](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/notes#speedups)
```sh
pip install "pypi-command-line[speedups] @ git+https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line.git"
```
## Usage
To see all the available commands use:
```sh
pypi --help
```
For more information on a certain command use `pypi <command_name> --help`. For example,
```sh
pypi search --help
```
For a full guide see <https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage>.
## Alternatives
### [pypi-cli](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-cli/ "pypi-cli")
Now this probably was the best option before `pypi-command-line` came out and it does have some flaws. The `information` command of pypi-cli is pretty minimal, there's no way of seeing the github information, The download count doesn't work properly, the long descriptions aren't formatted at all with pypi-cli. pypi-cli uses the xml-rpc<sup>[<a title="XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism." href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC" target="_blank">?</a>]</sup> API that is discontinued So the search feature doesn't work anymore, . The stat command is broken and is badly formatted for screens that are not ultra wide. And the project is unmaintained and archived
**TL;DR** The `stat` and `search` commands don't work anymore, the information command kinda works but the download count doesn't work, can't see github information, descriptions are raw.
### [pypi-client](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-client/ "pypi-client")
So this can just search for packages on pypi and that's it. Now don't you think that this is inherently bad as per se. So I tried it out immediately and it just got stuck loading the packages, pypi-client gets names of all the packages that exist pypi<sup><a title=Reference href="https://github.com/abahdanovich/pypi-client#:~:text=fetches%20all%20package%20names%20from%20pypi" target="_blank">βΎ</a></sup> which took like 4 mins, then I assume it downloads the github stars data?<sup><a title=Reference href="https://github.com/abahdanovich/pypi-client#:~:text=downloads%20github%20stars" target="_blank">βΎ</a></sup> Which takes like another 3 mins and then It just asked me to authorize with githubβ¦ like why does pypi-client even need authorization from me since github has a public api. And then it showed [this](https://i.imgur.com/D0VJhmZ.png "Demo of the program that has been badly formatted") which isn't really unreadable just badly formatted for screens that are not ultra wide. by changing the font size a bit I could make it look like [this](https://i.imgur.com/usU2AnJ.jpeg "Demo of the program after lowering the font size") which still isn't bad just a bit convoluted. And even at the end of the day the results are manually searched through therefore different from pypi<sup><a title=Example href="https://i.imgur.com/2AuCKuX.jpg" target="_blank">βΎ</a></sup>
**TL;DR:**
Takes too long (β7 mins), Needs github authorization, badly formatted for non ultra wide monitors, searches manually so results are different compared to pypi
### [yolk](https://pypi.org/project/yolk/ "yolk")
Discontinued 9 years ago, only supports python 2. Uses flags instead of subcommands for everything.
**TL;DR:**
Is this really necessary?
### [qypi](https://pypi.org/project/qypi/ "qypi")
So, this library is most likely the best alternative for pypi-command-line. But the output is in json, uses the xml-rpc api for search which is discontinued, the readme command doesn't work for me, the list command doesn't have a progressbar
**TL;DR:**
Output is only in json, without color. The search command doesn't work anymore. Has no progressbar for long running tasks
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"description": "# pypi-command-line\r\n\r\n`pypi-command-line` is a **colorful**, **powerful**, and **beautiful** command line interface for [pypi.org](https://pypi.org \"The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.\") that is actively maintained\r\n\r\nDetailed Documentation available at <https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/>\r\n\r\n## Features\r\n\r\n- \ud83d\ude80 Extremely intuitive and easy to use.\r\n- \ud83c\udf1f Beautiful UI with pleasant colors *everywhere*.\r\n- \ud83d\ude01 Emojis in responses and errors.\r\n- \ud83d\udcf0 Great Markdown and reStructuredText support for viewing project descriptions.\r\n- \ud83d\ude0e Many features (There are optional parameters for extra information too!).\r\n - See in-depth information about a package including it's download count and github repo stats.\r\n - See beautifully rendered markdown/rst/plain text description of a package\r\n - Search for packages with the same information as pypi and even filter them.\r\n - Search for packages with regex, for example using `flask-.+` will show all flask extensions.\r\n - Browse for a package's URLs and open any of those URLs inside a browser with a beautiful colored link selection menu\r\n - See all the releases of a package, along with when they were made and their size.\r\n - See New projects and new releases [just like PyPI](https://pypi.org#pypi-trending-packages).\r\n - See top 100 of the largest packages [just like PyPI](https://pypi.org/stats/).\r\n - Many more... (\r\n command list includes\r\n [`browse`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#browse),\r\n [`information`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#information),\r\n [`description`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#description),\r\n [`search`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#search),\r\n [`wheels`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#wheels),\r\n [`releases`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#releases),\r\n [`largest-files`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#largest-files),\r\n [`regex-search`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#regex-search),\r\n [`version`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#version),\r\n [`cache-info`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#cache-info),\r\n [`cache-refresh`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#cache-refresh),\r\n [`cache-clear`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#cache-clear),\r\n [`new-packages`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#new-packages),\r\n [`new-releases`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#new-releases),\r\n [`read-the-docs`](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage/#read-the-docs)\r\n )\r\n- \ud83d\udcbb Cross-platform.\r\n- \ud83e\udd2f Open source.\r\n- \ud83d\udcda Extensive documentation.\r\n\r\n## Info\r\n\r\n<details open>\r\n<summary>Hide Info</summary>\r\n\r\n### Download Count\r\n\r\nI've included both [PePy](https://pepy.tech/) and [PyPIStats](https://pypistats.org/) since PyPIStats by default does not include mirrors in it's count<sup>[1](https://pypistats.org/faqs#why-are-the-cumulative-download-counts-different-from-the-sum-of)</sup>. Also see <https://github.com/psincraian/pepy/issues/351>\r\n\r\n| Period | From [PePy](https://pepy.tech/project/pypi-command-line) | From [PyPiStats](https://pypistats.org/packages/pypi-command-line) |\r\n| ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\r\n| Day | | [![Downloads yesterday](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dd/pypi-command-line?label=Day&labelColor=black&color=orange)](https://pypistats.org/packages/pypi-command-line) |\r\n| Week | [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/personalized-badge/pypi-command-line?period=week&units=none&left_color=black&right_color=blue&left_text=Week)](https://pepy.tech/project/pypi-command-line) | [![Downloads in the last 7 days](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dw/pypi-command-line?label=Week&labelColor=black&color=orange)](https://pypistats.org/packages/pypi-command-line) |\r\n| Month | [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/personalized-badge/pypi-command-line?period=month&units=none&left_color=black&right_color=blue&left_text=Month)](https://pepy.tech/project/pypi-command-line) | [![Downloads in the last 30 days](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/pypi-command-line?label=Month&labelColor=black&color=orange)](https://pypistats.org/packages/pypi-command-line) |\r\n| Total | [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/personalized-badge/pypi-command-line?period=total&units=none&left_color=black&right_color=blue&left_text=Total)](https://pepy.tech/project/pypi-command-line) |\r\n\r\n### Meta\r\n\r\n| Title | Badge |\r\n| ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\r\n| Version | [![Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pypi-command-line?label=pypi%20version&style=flat-square&logo=pypi&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-command-line/) |\r\n| Wheel availability | [![PyPI Wheel availability](https://img.shields.io/pypi/wheel/pypi-command-line?label=pypi%20wheel%20availabile%3F&style=flat-square&logo=pypi&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-command-line/#files) |\r\n| Supported python versions | [![Supported python versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/pypi-command-line?label=supported%20python%20versions&style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-command-line/#:~:text=requires%3A%20python%20%3E%3D3.6) |\r\n| Python Implementation | [![Python Implementation](https://img.shields.io/pypi/implementation/pypi-command-line?label=python%20implementation&style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-command-line/#:~:text=programming%20language) |\r\n\r\n### GitHub\r\n\r\n| Title | Badge |\r\n| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\r\n| Number of issues open | [![Number of issues open](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white&label=issues%20open)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/issues) |\r\n| Number of issues closed | [![Number of issues closed](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-closed/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?label=issues%20closed&style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/issues?q=is%3Aissue++is%3Aclosed+) |\r\n| Number of pull requests | [![Number of pull requests](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-pr-closed/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white&label=pull%20requests)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/pulls) |\r\n| Number of stars | [![Number of stars on GitHub](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/stargazers) |\r\n\r\n### Misc\r\n\r\n| Title | Badge |\r\n| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\r\n| Documentation status | [![Documentation status](https://img.shields.io/website?down_color=red&down_message=not%20working&label=docs&logo=github&style=flat-square&up_color=blue&up_message=working&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwasi-master.github.io%2Fpypi-command-line%2F)](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line) |\r\n| Lines of code | [![Lines of code](https://img.shields.io/tokei/lines/github/wasi-master/pypi-command-line?style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/) |\r\n\r\n</details>\r\n\r\n## Screenshots\r\n\r\n<details open>\r\n<summary>Click to hide screenshots</summary>\r\n\r\nCommand name and parameter autocompletion\r\n![Autocomplete](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/autocomplete%20example.gif \"Autocomplete\")\r\nSmart error handling\r\n![Error Handling](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/error%20handling.gif \"Error Handling\")\r\nAuto command aliases\r\n![Smart Command Aliasing](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/smart_alias.png \"Smart Command Aliasing\")\r\nSearch feature that gives the same results as on PyPI\r\n![Search for a package using PyPI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20search.gif \"Search for a package using PyPI\")\r\nSee detailed information about a project\r\n![See project information](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20info.gif \"See project information\")\r\nView the project description right in your terminal with rich Markdown and reStructuredText formatting\r\n![Get description from PyPI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20desc.gif \"Get description from PyPI\")\r\nView the project readme from github\r\n![Get readme content from GitHub](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20desc%20github.gif \"Get readme content from GitHub\")\r\nSearch for packages using regular expressions\r\n![Search for packages using regex](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20rsearch.gif \"Search for packages using regex\")\r\nOpen the package's URLs gotten from PyPI\r\n![Browse for URLs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line/main/images/pypi%20browse%20aligned.gif \"Browse for URLs\")\r\nSee the project information with classifiers\r\n![See project information with 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\"Specify a page to search to\")\r\n\r\n</details>\r\n\r\n## Installation\r\n\r\n- Installing from PyPI (recommended).\r\n\r\n ```sh\r\n pip install pypi-command-line\r\n ```\r\n\r\n If you want to also install [speed dependencies](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/notes#speedups)\r\n\r\n ```sh\r\n pip install \"pypi-command-line[speedups]\"\r\n ```\r\n\r\n- Installing from source.\r\n\r\n ```sh\r\n pip install git+https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line.git\r\n ```\r\n\r\n If you want to also install [speed dependencies](https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/notes#speedups)\r\n\r\n ```sh\r\n pip install \"pypi-command-line[speedups] @ git+https://github.com/wasi-master/pypi-command-line.git\"\r\n ```\r\n\r\n## Usage\r\n\r\nTo see all the available commands use:\r\n\r\n```sh\r\npypi --help\r\n```\r\n\r\nFor more information on a certain command use `pypi <command_name> --help`. For example,\r\n\r\n```sh\r\npypi search --help\r\n```\r\n\r\nFor a full guide see <https://wasi-master.github.io/pypi-command-line/usage>.\r\n\r\n## Alternatives\r\n\r\n### [pypi-cli](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-cli/ \"pypi-cli\")\r\n\r\nNow this probably was the best option before `pypi-command-line` came out and it does have some flaws. The `information` command of pypi-cli is pretty minimal, there's no way of seeing the github information, The download count doesn't work properly, the long descriptions aren't formatted at all with pypi-cli. pypi-cli uses the xml-rpc<sup>[<a title=\"XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC\" target=\"_blank\">?</a>]</sup> API that is discontinued So the search feature doesn't work anymore, . The stat command is broken and is badly formatted for screens that are not ultra wide. And the project is unmaintained and archived\r\n\r\n**TL;DR** The `stat` and `search` commands don't work anymore, the information command kinda works but the download count doesn't work, can't see github information, descriptions are raw.\r\n\r\n### [pypi-client](https://pypi.org/project/pypi-client/ \"pypi-client\")\r\n\r\nSo this can just search for packages on pypi and that's it. Now don't you think that this is inherently bad as per se. So I tried it out immediately and it just got stuck loading the packages, pypi-client gets names of all the packages that exist pypi<sup><a title=Reference href=\"https://github.com/abahdanovich/pypi-client#:~:text=fetches%20all%20package%20names%20from%20pypi\" target=\"_blank\">\u203e</a></sup> which took like 4 mins, then I assume it downloads the github stars data?<sup><a title=Reference href=\"https://github.com/abahdanovich/pypi-client#:~:text=downloads%20github%20stars\" target=\"_blank\">\u203e</a></sup> Which takes like another 3 mins and then It just asked me to authorize with github\u2026 like why does pypi-client even need authorization from me since github has a public api. 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Uses flags instead of subcommands for everything.\r\n\r\n**TL;DR:**\r\nIs this really necessary?\r\n\r\n### [qypi](https://pypi.org/project/qypi/ \"qypi\")\r\n\r\nSo, this library is most likely the best alternative for pypi-command-line. But the output is in json, uses the xml-rpc api for search which is discontinued, the readme command doesn't work for me, the list command doesn't have a progressbar\r\n\r\n**TL;DR:**\r\nOutput is only in json, without color. The search command doesn't work anymore. Has no progressbar for long running tasks\r\n",
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