Introduction

Easy access to download statistics from the Python Package Index, via the command line:

$ vanity django
Django-1.1.3.tar.gz     2010-12-23    2,643
Django-1.1.4.tar.gz     2011-02-09    4,629
  Django-1.2.tar.gz     2010-05-17   16,148
Django-1.2.1.tar.gz     2010-05-24   65,379
Django-1.2.2.tar.gz     2010-09-09    2,482
Django-1.2.3.tar.gz     2010-09-11   74,277
Django-1.2.4.tar.gz     2010-12-23   50,307
Django-1.2.5.tar.gz     2011-02-09   64,545
Django-1.2.6.tar.gz     2011-09-10      470
Django-1.2.7.tar.gz     2011-09-11    7,291
  Django-1.3.tar.gz     2011-03-23  246,589
Django-1.3.1.tar.gz     2011-09-10  207,103
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Django has been downloaded 741,863 times!

Installation

Install via:

$ pip install vanity

Or:

$ easy_install vanity

Or download the compressed archive, extract it, and inside it run:

$ python setup.py install

Advanced options

To supress the display of file name, upload date, and download count for each release, specify quite mode with -q or --quiet:

$ vanity django -q
Django has been downloaded 741,863 times!

Credits

• Based on code from Products.PloneSoftwareCenter written by David Glick.