alt Hacker NewsOne of the big companies making billions on Python software should step up and fund the infrastructure needed to enable PyPI package search via the CLI, like you could with `pip search` in the past.
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talideon • today at 3:10 AM
I upvoted you because I broadly agree with you, but search is never coming back in the API. They previously outlined the cost involved and there's no way, given how minimal the value it gives more broadly, it's coming back ant time soon. It's basically an abusive vector because of the compute cost.
firesteelrain • today at 12:08 AM
Funding could help, but it still requires PyPI/Warehouse to ship and operate a new public search interface that is safe at internet scale.
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rat9988 • today at 2:25 AM
They probably don't need it. You can start a crowdfunding campaign if you do.
Serious question: how important is `pip search` to your workflows? I don’t think I ever used it, back when PyPI still had an XMLRPC search endpoint.
(I think the biggest blocker on CLI search isn’t infrastructure, but that there’s no clear agreement on the value of CLI search without a clear scope of what that search would do. Just listing matches over the package names would be less useful than structured metadata search for example, but the latter makes a lot of assumptions about the availability of structured metadata!)