Overview of Python libraries
List requirements of Library
App start page and search

PyPip Info

Made for the Hackaton CatHacks VI (2020) from the University of Kentucky.

Project Information

A GUI for PyPi for searching and getting condensed information on packages and their respective Repositories, running on Desktop (chrome) with Flask + Flaskwebgui. Frontend made with Vue.js and the Component Framework Vuetify for Vue.

Discord Username: NRiver#2263 and zervit#8183

Motivation

Everytime I want to add a Python library to my project I usually search for it on Google, Github or PyPi, then I have to keep looking at different tabs for Github or PyPi and different parts of their pages to get the information I need to know if the library is good to use in a project or not, if it has active maintainers, if it has been updated recently, how many stars/forks/releases it has, if it has good documentation etc.

For this purpose me and my friend Guilherme made this project to make this kind of search easier, by condensing most of the information necessary to know if a project is active. In the background it uses the PyPi's and GitHub's API to grab all the necessary information for displaying.

Main Features

Search for Packages by name on PyPI
- General Information
  - Project License
- GitHub Information
  - Number of Stars
  - Number of Forks
  - Number of Contributors
  - Latest commit date
- PyPi Project Information
  - Project URLs
  - Python Versions
  - Number of Releases
  - Requirements
  - Number of Requirements
  - List of Requirements
- Latest Release version and date
- Readme of projects
  - Uses either GitHub's or PyPi Readme, whichever is available, since some projects have a GitHub Readme but not a PyPi one or vice-versa

Planned Features

Installation of Libraries with pip directly via the app
- File selection for python Version/Virtual Environment
- Automatically look for available Python versions
Add more information from non-github repositories (Gitlab, Bitbucket etc.)
Short automatic analysis to decide if a Library is probably active or not
Better looking Code Syntax Highlighting for project Readme
Search Projects by categories/keywords instead of only names

Setup

Install necessary Python packages with poetry
- poetry install
Install necessary Frontend packages with yarn
- cd frontend && yarn
- Build Frontend for production
  - yarn build
Run Project
- poetry run main.py