Python and Pip, List All Versions of a Package That's Available

Python and pip, list all versions of a package that's available?

(update: As of March 2020, many people have reported that yolk, installed via pip install yolk3k, only returns latest version. Chris's answer seems to have the most upvotes and worked for me)

The script at pastebin does work. However it's not very convenient if you're working with multiple environments/hosts because you will have to copy/create it every time.

A better all-around solution would be to use yolk3k, which is available to install with pip. E.g. to see what versions of Django are available:

$ pip install yolk3k
$ yolk -V django
Django 1.3
Django 1.2.5
Django 1.2.4
Django 1.2.3
Django 1.2.2
Django 1.2.1
Django 1.2
Django 1.1.4
Django 1.1.3
Django 1.1.2
Django 1.0.4

yolk3k is a fork of the original yolk which ceased development in 2012. Though yolk is no longer maintained (as indicated in comments below), yolk3k appears to be and supports Python 3.

Note: I am not involved in the development of yolk3k. If something doesn't seem to work as it should, leaving a comment here should not make much difference. Use the yolk3k issue tracker instead and consider submitting a fix, if possible.

check version of pip packages available before installing

For newer versions of pip as of Dec 2020, you should use:

pip download -v packagename

For older versions of pip you can use:

pip install --download . -v packagename

Both above commands will download the files without installing and will also show all the version of a package (you can stop the command after that). After that, to install a specific version use:

pip install packagename==version

How to see available pypi package versions with pip 20.3?

add to your ~/.bashrc

function pipver() { curl -s https://pypi.org/rss/project/$1/releases.xml | sed -n 's/\s*<title>\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/p' ;}

Then open a new terminal window and invoke, using: pipver numpy

substituting whichever module you're looking for version info on.

1.19.4

1.19.3

1.19.2

1.19.1

etc...

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It gathers the relevant .rss XML with curl, then pipes that through sed the stream-editor, selecting lines that match <title>[version.numbers] then only printing out those captured version numbers for you.

Find which version of package is installed with pip

As of pip 1.3, there is a pip show command.

$ pip show Jinja2
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Name: Jinja2
Version: 2.7.3
Location: /path/to/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requires: markupsafe

In older versions, pip freeze and grep should do the job nicely.

$ pip freeze | grep Jinja2
Jinja2==2.7.3

Full list of all packages available through pip install command?

You can find a full list here:

https://pypi.org/simple/

This will take a while to load though. As for pip itself, there is pip search <term>, but no full listing of packages available from a repository.

Also see pip documentation here.

As came up in comments on the question:

is there a central repository? Or is anyone completely free to add
packages as they please?

Finding packages in the pip documentation.

Get list of all available pip packages and their versions

See PyPI Simple API on how to get the list of all available packages without versions.

How do I search for an available Python package using pip?

To search for a package, issue the command

pip search [package-name]

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