A monthly dump of the 8,000 most-downloaded packages from PyPI:

• https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/top-pypi-packages-30-days.min.json

Unminified:

• https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/top-pypi-packages-30-days.json

Note: It now takes too much quota to collect data for 365 days. Those files were last updated on 2021-04-01 and have been removed. Old versions can be found in releases.

From cron, it runs pypinfo to dump JSON and commit back to this repo.

For example on Ubuntu 22.04:

sudo apt-get install jq

Follow https://github.com/ofek/pypinfo to sign up for BigQuery, install and authenticate.

pip3 install "pypinfo>=13.0.0"
pypinfo --help
pypinfo --auth path/to/your_credentials.json

git clone git@github.com:hugovk/top-pypi-packages.git
cd top-pypi-packages
git config user.name "Deploy Bot"
git config user.email "deploybot@example.com"
git config user.name
git config user.email

• Create SSH key on server: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ssh-keys-with-digitalocean-droplets
• Add your SSH key to the ssh-agent: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/#adding-your-ssh-key-to-the-ssh-agent
• Add deploy key with write access at https://github.com/hugovk/top-pypi-packages/settings/keys/new

crontab -e
# First of the month
30 17 1 * * ( eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"; ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa-top-pypi-packages; /home/botuser/github/top-pypi-packages/top-pypi-packages.sh ) > /tmp/top-pypi-packages.log 2>&1

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