Yarg is a PyPI client, it was written for pypip.in and can search packages as well as read the RSS feeds from PyPI for new packages and new package version releases.

>>> import yarg
>>> package = yarg.get("yarg")
>>> package.name
u'yarg'
>>> package.author
Author(name=u'Kura', email=u'kura@kura.gg')

>>> import yarg
>>> packages = yarg.newest_packages()
>>> packages
[<Package yarg>, <Package gray>, <Package ragy>]
>>> packages[0].name
u'yarg'
>>> packages.url
u'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/yarg

>>> import yarg
>>> packages = yarg.latest_updated_packages()
>>> packages
[<Package yarg>, <Package gray>, <Package ragy>]
>>> packages[0].name
u'yarg'
>>> packages[0].version
u'0.1.2'
>>> packages[0].url
u'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/yarg/0.1.2

As you might expect, pypip.in employes a fair amount of caching in the backend to control load on the imaging API and servers.

For a long time, this cache was entirely managed by Varnish and was doing a fantastic job. Varnish has a hit:miss ratio of 10:1, for every 10 hits we get 1 miss. This is a fairly decent ratio when you consider where these images are displayed, how often they are viewed and that Varnish only caches the images for an hour.

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