Stats API

Important

You must set Accept: application/json in your requests to this API. Without the Accept header, you will be returned an HTML page.

Tip

An example stats API client can be found at coopherlees/pypistats.

Routes

Project stats

Route: GET /stats/

Returns statistics in JSON format. This includes:

• Total size of PyPI packages in bytes
• Top 100 packages + their size in bytes

Status codes:

• 200 OK - no error

Example request:

GET /stats HTTP/1.1
Host: pypi.org
Accept: application/json

Example JSON response

{
  "top_packages": {
    "CodeIntel": {
      "size": 23767329521
    },
    "Fiona": {
      "size": 6209535709
    },
    "FlexGet": {
      "size": 4387002448
    },
    "...": "..."
  },
  "total_packages_size": 23965450269
}