An up-to-date and reliable feed (atom/rss) for python releases

[abruceme]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There seems to be no really easy and obvious way to automate the monitoring of python releases.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if there was an up-to-date and reliable feed for python releases.

[hugovk]

I think this is new: for individual projects there is a feed.

For example, https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/#history has a link to this RSS feed:
https://pypi.org/rss/project/setuptools/releases.xml

[hugovk]

Sorry, I misread, you're asking about CPython releases!

[Mariatta]

Yeah I think an RSS feed for CPython releases is a great idea!

[hugovk]

Oh look, GitHub has a feed for tags!

• https://github.com/python/cpython/tags.atom

Should this be added to python.org, perhaps somewhere on https://www.python.org/downloads/?

[ned-deily]

Thanks @hugovk for the discovery! It seems to be that should suffice for our purposes. I've pinged the other release managers for their opinions. If no one objects, I will add it to the downloads page.

[ldorigo]

Related to this, would it be possible to have a feed for https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/changelog.html ? I would like an easy way to keep informed of changes for new releases.

[hugovk]

There's an RSS feed for https://blog.python.org/

It's "Python core development news and information" and mostly release news, but not quite a feed of the changelog.

[ned-deily]

@maxking, here's an already open issue about providing a releases feed.

[bskinn]

FWIW, I've also been interested in a CPython releases feed, and I recently put one together built on a Github Action that scrapes the stable and prerelease download pages once a day and generates an RSS feed from them:

• Repo: https://github.com/bskinn/cpython-release-feed
• Feed: https://github.com/bskinn/cpython-release-feed/raw/master/feed/feed.rss

I think it's working correctly, but it's not exactly easy to test quickly. 😜 The primary link for each feed entry takes you directly to the release detail page, e.g. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-392/.

Suggestions for improvements welcome from anyone interested. @warsaw, per #1634 (comment), if you have a different format you'd find useful (Markdown summary in README, perhaps?), I'd be happy to give a go at implementing it alongside the RSS.

[maxking]

Thanks @ned-deily for the pointer.

As it turns out, there is already a Json API which exposes the releases and the downloads: https://www.python.org/api/v2/
I understand that this issue is about an RSS/atom feed instead of a Json API but this does most of the job and clients can infer a new release based on the length of objects under https://www.python.org/api/v2/downloads/release/

[grepusername]

Thanks @ned-deily for the pointer.

As it turns out, there is already a Json API which exposes the releases and the downloads: https://www.python.org/api/v2/ I understand that this issue is about an RSS/atom feed instead of a Json API but this does most of the job and clients can infer a new release based on the length of objects under https://www.python.org/api/v2/downloads/release/

Is there an equivalent interface for active python releases ala the downloads page https://www.python.org/downloads/?

i.e. 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 2.7

[hugovk]

@grepusername Do you mean to check if an x.y release is not-EOL?

The https://endoflife.date/python page has an API at https://endoflife.date/api/python.json that gives the EOL dates for each x.y release, so we can see 3.7-3.10 are currently active.

Does that help?