Re: pypi.org change which may affect currency checks

On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 4:54 PM Bruce Dubbs
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 12/7/24 13:58, Joe Locash ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> > I noticed the other day that my python module version checks were failing. It appears
> > that pypi.org now uses javascript to verify the browser.  This causes my curl
> > requests to fail. I see that the BLFS currency check scripts use php and I suspect
> > they may also suffer from this.
> >
> > As a work around I now check for the latest release of a package from
> >    https://pypi.org/rss/project/<project_name>/releases.xml
> > which doesn't suffer from the problem.
> >
> > Found in https://docs.pypi.org/api/feeds/
>
> Generally I wait for a few days after a currency problem to see if upstream fixes
> itself.
>
> In the currency checks I use a variety of methods to get pages: links -dump, wget,
> curl -L -s -m40 -A Firefox/41.0, etc.  Most of the time it's just wget.  The biggest
> problem is those sites that use a lot of javascript.

If this does become a problem, we can use
https://pypi.org/simple/$MODULE, it's just a basic web server



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