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PyPI Download Counts Update #113

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Important

See https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-08-31-download-counts/ for more details.

Update

If you are an avid watcher of your project download counts you may have noticed recently that they have decreased. That's because we've changed how we count downloads.

On 2026-08-24 we changed what PyPI counts as a download. We now count only the files people install (wheels, source archives, and zips).

We no longer count the small accompanying files that installers fetch alongside them.

Impact

Nothing about real usage changed. Your project's counts dropped but it is just a correction in how we count, not a loss of users.

The change is also not retroactive, so download counts from before 2026-08-24 will show as they were - counting extra files, inflating the download counts.


If you browse to https://pypistats.org/packages/__all__ you'll see this quite clearly:

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If you have any questions you can feel free to reach out here in this thread.

Reacted by Hugo van Kemenade, Jo, jonathan343 and Edgar Ramírez Mondragón

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  3. bobvanluijt commented on Sep 16, 2026

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    I'd love to learn why. It's probably a good thing (I wasn't able to attribute downloads to usage in the past), but I'm curious about the rationale

  4. miketheman commented on Oct 9, 2026

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    I'd love to learn why. It's probably a good thing (I wasn't able to attribute downloads to usage in the past), but I'm curious about the rationale

    There's an entire blog post linked to the top of the issue - did you read it?

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