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by stared 4118 days ago
It would be great if:

- it sorted searches by GitHub starts (otherwise for any popular thing, you get first tons of stuff, in a non-relevant order),

- for PyPI, there is also anther figure of merit, i.e. no of downloads (most are open source, but some are on other repositories),

- in general, for Python it misses some very popular packages... for example, http://libraries.io/search?q=networkx is from PyPI but not from Python (why?).

Otherwise, a very needed idea! I wanted to do my own some time ago (http://pypi.meteor.com/), but didn't have time to bring it to a useful (or nice) version.
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andrewnez 4118 days ago
You can sort by stars, there's just not a UI yet: http://libraries.io/search?order=desc&sort=stars

Pypi is lacking in information but I'm working on pulling it from other sources to improve the quality for Python libraries.

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stared 4118 days ago
For PyPI it is rather straightforward to get downloads information: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21419009/json-api-for-pyp... (along with some other data, e.g. categorization). See example: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/seaborn/json
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stared 4118 days ago
And, for some packages clearly being on GitHub, it does not find their place, e.g. http://libraries.io/pypi/pandas vs https://github.com/pydata/pandas (4k+ stars).
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