PPS -- Python Package Index Search

Search the PyPI for packages by name, which was done by pip search in the past.

This was heavily inspired by pip_search which looks fantastic but is a little slow. Also the output is unnecessary hard to process by other command line tools.

Features

Search the Python Package Index by package name
show download statistics
sort by name, release date, or number of downloads

Installation

cargo install pps

or get a pre-build linux x86-64 release

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && wget https://github.com/tbehner/pps/releases/download/0.2.1/pps -O ~/.local/bin/pps && chmod +x ~/.local/bin/pps

and make sure to include ~/.local/bin on your PATH.

To keep muscle memory in place, you can use

 alias pip='function _pip(){
    if [ $1 = "search" ]; then
        pps "$2";
    else pip "$@";
    fi;
    };_pip

(credits to pip_search)