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Fix HTTP 429 from pypistats.org by adding User-Agent header #5

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8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions fetch.py
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import json
from datetime import date
from pathlib import Path
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen


def _read_archive(path):
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def count_pypi(package, path):
"""Download count for the PyPI distribution."""
pypi_api = urlopen(f"https://pypistats.org/api/packages/{package}/overall")
req = Request(
f"https://pypistats.org/api/packages/{package}/overall",
headers={"User-Agent": "fetch-download-stats/1.0"},
)
pypi_api = urlopen(req)
pypi_json = json.loads(pypi_api.read())
archive = _read_archive(path)
for data in pypi_json["data"]:
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