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+:mod:`packaging.pypi.xmlrpc` --- Crawler using the PyPI XML-RPC interface
+=========================================================================
+
+.. module:: packaging.pypi.xmlrpc
+   :synopsis: Client using XML-RPC requests to fetch info and distributions.
+
+
+Indexes can be queried using XML-RPC calls, and Packaging provides a simple
+way to interface with XML-RPC.
+
+You should **use** XML-RPC when:
+
+* Searching the index for projects **on other fields than project
+  names**. For instance, you can search for projects based on the
+  author_email field.
+* Searching all the versions that have existed for a project.
+* you want to retrieve METADATAs information from releases or
+  distributions.
+
+
+You should **avoid using** XML-RPC method calls when:
+
+* Retrieving the last version of a project
+* Getting the projects with a specific name and version.
+* The simple index can match your needs
+
+
+When dealing with indexes, keep in mind that the index queries will always
+return you :class:`packaging.pypi.dist.ReleaseInfo` and
+:class:`packaging.pypi.dist.ReleasesList` objects.
+
+Some methods here share common APIs with the one you can find on
+:class:`packaging.pypi.simple`, internally, :class:`packaging.pypi.client`
+is inherited by :class:`Client`
+
+
+API
+---
+
+.. class:: Client
+
+
+Usage examples
+--------------
+
+Use case described here are use case that are not common to the other clients.
+If you want to see all the methods, please refer to API or to usage examples
+described in :class:`packaging.pypi.client.Client`
+
+
+Finding releases
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+It's a common use case to search for "things" within the index. We can
+basically search for projects by their name, which is the most used way for
+users (eg. "give me the last version of the FooBar project").
+
+This can be accomplished using the following syntax::
+
+   >>> client = xmlrpc.Client()
+   >>> client.get_release("Foobar (<= 1.3))
+   <FooBar 1.2.1>
+   >>> client.get_releases("FooBar (<= 1.3)")
+   [FooBar 1.1, FooBar 1.1.1, FooBar 1.2, FooBar 1.2.1]
+
+
+And we also can find for specific fields::
+
+   >>> client.search_projects(field=value)
+
+
+You could specify the operator to use, default is "or"::
+
+   >>> client.search_projects(field=value, operator="and")
+
+
+The specific fields you can search are:
+
+* name
+* version
+* author
+* author_email
+* maintainer
+* maintainer_email
+* home_page
+* license
+* summary
+* description
+* keywords
+* platform
+* download_url
+
+
+Getting metadata information
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+XML-RPC is a preferred way to retrieve metadata information from indexes.
+It's really simple to do so::
+
+   >>> client = xmlrpc.Client()
+   >>> client.get_metadata("FooBar", "1.1")
+   <ReleaseInfo FooBar 1.1>
+
+
+Assuming we already have a :class:`packaging.pypi.ReleaseInfo` object defined,
+it's possible to pass it to the xmlrpc client to retrieve and complete its
+metadata::
+
+   >>> foobar11 = ReleaseInfo("FooBar", "1.1")
+   >>> client = xmlrpc.Client()
+   >>> returned_release = client.get_metadata(release=foobar11)
+   >>> returned_release
+   <ReleaseInfo FooBar 1.1>
+
+
+Get all the releases of a project
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To retrieve all the releases for a project, you can build them using
+`get_releases`::
+
+   >>> client = xmlrpc.Client()
+   >>> client.get_releases("FooBar")
+   [<ReleaseInfo FooBar 0.9>, <ReleaseInfo FooBar 1.0>, <ReleaseInfo 1.1>]
+
+
+Get information about distributions
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Indexes have information about projects, releases **and** distributions.
+If you're not familiar with those, please refer to the documentation of
+:mod:`packaging.pypi.dist`.
+
+It's possible to retrieve information about distributions, e.g "what are the
+existing distributions for this release ? How to retrieve them ?"::
+
+   >>> client = xmlrpc.Client()
+   >>> release = client.get_distributions("FooBar", "1.1")
+   >>> release.dists
+   {'sdist': <FooBar 1.1 sdist>, 'bdist': <FooBar 1.1 bdist>}
+
+As you see, this does not return a list of distributions, but a release,
+because a release can be used like a list of distributions.