Total Downloads of Module Missing on PyPi

Question

Up until recently, it was possible to see how many times a python module indexed on https://pypi.python.org/pypi had been downloaded (each module listed downloads for the past 24hrs, week and month). Now that information seems to be missing.

Download numbers are very helpful information when evaluating whether to build code off of one module or another. They also seem to be referenced by sites such as https://img.shields.io/

Does anyone know what happened? And/or, where I can view/retrieve that information?

Answer 1

This email from Donald Stufft (PyPI maintainer) from distutils mailing list says:

Just an FYI, I've disabled download counts on PyPI for the time being. The statistics stack is broken and needs engineering effort to fix it back up to deal with changes to PyPI. It was suggested that hiding the counts would help prevent user confusion when they see things like "downloaded 0 times" making people believe that a library has no users, even if it is a significantly downloaded library.

I'm unlikely to get around to fixing the current stack since, as part of Warehouse, I'm working on a new statistics stack which is much better. The data collection and storage parts of that stack are already done and I just need to get querying done (made more difficult by the fact that the new system queries can take 10+ seconds to complete, but can be queried on any dimension) and a tool to process the historical data and put it into the new storage engine.

Anyways, this is just to let folks know that this isn't a permanent loss of the feature and we won't lose any data.

So i guess we'll have to wait for a new stats stack in PyPI.