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PyPI downloads analytics dashboard
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Download stats seem too high #16

Closed robotichead closed 4 years ago

robotichead commented 5 years ago

Method

  1. Go to https://pypistats.org/packages/nearbeach

Expected Results

Download stats to be in single digits as it is an unknown app.

Actual Results

Downloads a month > 100

Notes

On the about page - https://pypistats.org/about - there is a link to the Google Big Data but it just shows the error "Unable to find table: the-psf:pypi.downloads". Do we know what is counted as a download?

crflynn commented 4 years ago

The stats are less reliable for less popular packages since there are mirrors, bots, crawlers, etc that will generate downloads recorded in bigquery. To access the bigquery tables, you must have a google cloud account.