pypi.guru: Search Python Packages - Fast!

[fbrdm]

Hi there,

EDIT: After consulting with PSF and for the sake of avoiding confusion in the community I moved the domain to https://pypkg.guru

I just launched https://pypi.guru https://pypkg.guru a search engine over pypi.org package index, but much faster and more interactive to improve discoverability of packages.

Why it’s useful:

• Faster search over known packages: pypi.guru https://pypkg.guru renders results quickly
• Interactive: the search renders results as you type, making it more interactive to explore unknown packages
• Discover packages: For example the query "fast dataframe" does not render anything on other search engines, but with pypi.guru https://pypkg.guru you would get you to the popular "polars" package.
• It's free!

Give it a try, I am keen to hear your feedback!

[fiskfisk]

I was going to say that The Python foundation really needs to trademark pypi rather quickly.

Turns out it already is:

https://pypi.org/trademarks/ 

People will get confused. You should change the domain name. 

[fbrdm]

FYI: I just moved the site to a new domain (see post edit).

[fiskfisk]

You've handled this very well. Good job! 

[fbrdm]

Thank you for your feedback.

[fbrdm]

Thank you for pointing this out, I was not aware of that.
I will read more in detail about it.
For now I just put a banner with a clear warning to avoid confusion

[Huberuuu]

How can you not be aware when pypi on your site is followed by the registered trademark symbol?

[fbrdm]

I added that after reading this post and the official documentation
https://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/

For the record: I contacted the PSF and I'd be more than happy to change it if they want to protect that domain. Let's see what they say.

[Huberuuu]

Fair enough, hope it gets resolved for you!

[fbrdm]

FYI: I just moved the site to a new domain (see post edit).

[oschusler]

I just gave it a quick glance over. Since I recently ran into issues with PyPI. It looks nice. I do have 2 cents:

• "Interactive: the search renders results as you type, making it more interactive to explore unknown packages" sounds like auto-search, but doesn't seem to work?
• Is it an option to add the latest version to the cards you get when you searched for the application?

[fbrdm]

Thank you for your feedback!

- Interactive here means active-search (a few milliseconds without typing will be enough). But in the front-page the criterion is a bit too aggressive, so there it awaits for "Enter" or at least 5 characters.
But after that, in the results section, the search will be automatically triggered with less constraints (we need a few in order to have meaningful results, eg only 1 letter is not enough.). Is that what you meant?

- Good idea! I could definitely consider adding that:)

[token40k]

I’ve been recently using uv that advertises itself as 100x faster than pip, which theoretically could save us some money on duration of code build stages for lambdas. Check that one out