YJL

The PyPI newest packages feed contains 40 entries, that’s 40 new packages. As of writing, it spans back about 21 hours, 3 of 40 are those A simple printer of nested lists spams, for those I had even filed an issue to PyPI issue tracker, I was told:

Richard Jones: I regularly clean out these modules. Just try to ignore them.

As you can guess, I am really sick of those. Everyday, at least three are spams if not less. Wasting time to go through that feed, 7.5% of spam rate, that’s not an insignificant number by any means. I just could not believe that I had waited for three months to do something.

So, here it is a cleaner feed¹ with the help of Yahoo! Pipes, once again:

PyPI Packages Filtered

You can see two filters, first one is for the spams, seconds are for other legit packages that I am not interested in. Off-topic: the quality of packages are usually low, some are not even ready, links send you to 404. I really don’t know why those people bother wasting other’s time and theirs.

This action was actually prompted by someone who was asking about my Ultimate YJL feed, reminded me of the usefulness of Yahoo! Pipes, should have thought about using Yahoo! Pipes, this pipe only took me about 10 minutes to lay down after 3 months of wasting time on skipping through.

Only 26 packages got through, 14 are removed. 14 actions less to take every day. 14 keypress might not sound a lot but multiply by 365, it’s 5,110 presses a year. And if you are a mouse clicker, you are wasting even more.

What, mileage? It’s a mouse not a flight!