Add script to automatically download wheels (#50859)

Author: datapythonista

doc/source/development/maintaining.rst

@@ -465,7 +465,8 @@ which will be triggered when the tag is pushed.
 
 7. Download all wheels from the Anaconda repository where MacPython uploads them:
    https://anaconda.org/multibuild-wheels-staging/pandas/files?version=<version>
-   to the ``dist/`` directory in the local pandas copy.
+   to the ``dist/`` directory in the local pandas copy. You can use the script
+   ``scripts/download_wheels.sh`` to download all wheels at once.
 
 8. Upload wheels to PyPI:
 

scripts/download_wheels.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Download all wheels for a pandas version.
+#
+# This script is mostly useful during the release process, when wheels
+# generated by the MacPython repo need to be downloaded locally to then
+# be uploaded to the PyPI.
+#
+# There is no API to access the wheel files, so the script downloads the
+# website, extracts the file urls from the html, and then downloads it
+# one by one to the dist/ directory where they would be generated.
+
+VERSION=$1
+DIST_DIR="$(realpath $(dirname -- $0)/../dist)"
+
+if [ -z $VERSION ]; then
+    printf "Usage:\n\t$0 <version>\n\nWhere <version> is for example 1.5.3"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+curl "https://anaconda.org/multibuild-wheels-staging/pandas/files?version=${VERSION}" | \
+    grep "href=\"/multibuild-wheels-staging/pandas/${VERSION}" | \
+    sed -r 's/.*<a href="([^"]+\.whl)">.*/\1/g' | \
+    awk '{print "https://anaconda.org" $0 }' | \
+    xargs wget -P $DIST_DIR
+
+printf "\nWheels downloaded to $DIST_DIR\nYou can upload them to PyPI using:\n\n"
+printf "\ttwine upload ${DIST_DIR}/pandas-${VERSION}*.{whl,tar.gz} --skip-existing"