Pypi still has a download counter, but it will tend to reflect which libraries are used in ci, so it's a biased estimate.
If only there were a way to filter machines on the internet by some kind of id number, and to subtract numbers from other numbers at scale.
And what about caches and proxies?
Could you please point me to the location of that counter? Because I ain't seeing it anywhere.
afaik it's not in the UI, but the dataset is published and and access provided by other sites: https://pypistats.org/
Perl has stars on MetaCPAN and every version has a test counter. Download counter is unreliable.
Re:“Python's batteries are leaking”
by DonHopkins on Sunday May 19, 2019 @08:23AM
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Especially download counters for libraries that make http requests!
Pypi have thrown out the downloads counter—a huge misservice to coders. Like I got all day to figure out the best libs for ten different features which I only need in passing, so my primary concern is to not pick complete garbage.
So, my solution to that now is to look up Github pages for the libs and choose the one with most stars. As much as I dislike Github for its occasional typical proprietary behavior, Gitlab doesn't help in this case.