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William Woodruff

  • 4 min read

The HTML representation of the index API is now frozen

PyPI has adopted PEP 833, which "freezes" the HTML representation of the index API, which is also sometimes called the "simple API" or the "simple repository API."

New packages and releases will continue to appear in the HTML representation, meaning this has no breaking implications for downstream index consumers.

However, future standardization and development efforts will focus on the JSON representation, and downstreams that consume only the HTML representation are strongly encouraged to transition to the JSON representation to ensure access to the latest and greatest index features.

  • 5 min read

PyPI now serves project status markers in API responses

PyPI now serves project status markers in its standard index APIs. This allows downstream consumers (like Python package installers and index mirrors) to retrieve project statuses programmatically and use them to inform users when a project is archived or quarantined.

Summary

  • PyPI has implemented project status markers as proposed and accepted in PEP 792.
  • As of today, PyPI supports three standard statuses: active (the default), archived, and quarantined.
  • Downstream consumers can now retrieve these statuses via the standard index APIs and use them to inform users about the state of a project.

See the project archival and project quarantine announcement posts for additional information on PyPI's implementation of those individual statuses.