Check the current version of a lib on pypi

pipy-check

#!/bin/bash

###
# Check the current version of a lib on pypi
#
# https://gist.github.com/loisaidasam/2cb9bcc32312ca673c933ef07cdc706f
#
# Requires `curl` and [pup](https://github.com/ericchiang/pup)
###

lib="$1"

if [ -z $lib ]
then
    echo "Usage: pypi-check <lib>";
    exit 1;
fi

lib_url="https://pypi.org/project/$lib/"

echo $(curl -Ss "$lib_url" | pup --plain ".package-header__name text{}")

usage.md

$ ./pypi-check scipy
scipy 1.2.0