Get the Last PyPI Package

This is one of the most useful and most used aliases in my setup.


function last-py() {
    package_name=${1}
    n_versions=${2:-5}
    echo "Last ${n_versions} versions of ${package_name} <https://pypi.org/project/${package_name}/>"
    echo
    curl -Ls "https://pypi.org/pypi/${package_name}/json" |
        jq -r '
            .releases |
            to_entries |
            map(.key as $version |
            .value[] |
            {version: $version, upload_time: .upload_time_iso_8601}) |
            sort_by(.upload_time) |
            group_by(.version) |
            map(max_by(.upload_time)) |
            reverse |
            .[:'$n_versions'] |
            map([.version, .upload_time]) |
            (["Version", "Upload Time"] | (., map(length*"-"))), .[] | @tsv
        ' |
        column -t -s $'\t'
}

A lot of times when working on python, I want to know the last version of a particular dependency. This bash function give us a table with the latest uploaded versions of a package.


❯ last-py pandas 10
Last 10 versions of pandas <https://pypi.org/project/pandas/>

Version   Upload Time
-------   -----------
2.2.3     2024-09-20T19:02:26.247347Z
2.2.2     2024-04-15T13:26:40.761074Z
2.2.1     2024-02-23T15:32:10.410704Z
2.2.0rc0  2023-12-22T20:24:55.802599Z
2.2.0     2024-01-20T02:53:59.362940Z
2.1.4     2023-12-08T15:38:29.713155Z
2.1.3     2023-11-10T19:19:47.654074Z
2.1.2     2023-10-26T19:24:28.300130Z
2.1.1     2023-09-20T21:05:19.391878Z
2.1.0rc0  2023-08-11T18:32:00.107462Z

Get the Last PyPI Package - Quick Snippet