Script for an Alfred shortcut to open PyPI docs

open_pypi_docs.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: utf-8
"""
Try to open the documentation for a Python package, or the PyPI page if
it can't be found.
"""

import json
import sys
import webbrowser

try:
    from urllib.request import urlopen
except ImportError:  # Python 2
    from urllib2 import urlopen

package_name = sys.argv[1]

resp = urlopen("https://pypi.org/pypi/%s/json" % package_name)

data = json.load(resp)

try:
    docs_url = data["info"]["project_urls"]["Documentation"]
except KeyError:
    docs_url = "https://pypi.org/project/%s/" % package_name

webbrowser.open(docs_url)

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