JSON API metadata comes from the values given at upload time, not from the files, and the first upload of a release is stored: later uploads to that release do not update it.

PyPI (Python Package Index) 路 GET /pypi/{project}/{version}/json

Status: 馃數 official 路 first seen 2026-10-20

What to do

  1. No client-side fix known (by design).

Dimensions

env: prod 路 plan: any 路 region: any 路 account_state: any

Evidence

official doc: https://docs.pypi.org/api/json/#get-a-project

Observations: none from reporters yet.

Machine access

curl -s https://apifacts.dev/v0/check \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"target":{"method":"GET","url":"https://pypi.org/pypi/{project}/{version}/json"}}'

YAML: facts/pypi/release-metadata-from-first-upload.yaml

Data: CC BY 4.0 路 apifacts registry 路 This page is generated; edit the YAML, not the page.