Quick script for listing all "flake8*" packages on PyPI

flake8_pypi.py

import json
import re

import requests as rq

pat = re.compile(b'href="/simple/([^/]+)/">')
req = rq.get('https://pypi.org/simple')

for mch in pat.finditer(req.content):
    pkg = mch.group(1).decode()
    if pkg.startswith("flake8"):
        try:
            req_pkg = rq.get("https://pypi.org/pypi/{}/json".format(pkg))
        except Exception:
            print("{}: JSON DOWNLOAD FAILED".format(pkg))
            continue
        
        if req_pkg.ok:
            try:
                msg = json.loads(req_pkg.content)['info']['summary']
            except Exception:
                print("{}: SUMMARY SEARCH FAILED".format(pkg))
            else:
                print("{}: {}".format(pkg, msg))
        else:
            print("{}: JSON API PAGE NOT FOUND".format(pkg))