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From this comment, it looks like the search API was disabled in part because its usage has dramatically increased in the last few months:

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5216#issuecomment-7446585...

and PyPI can't handle the traffic. I wonder why the increase in traffic?

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In my experience this suggests one or a few bad actors. They aren't necessarily malicious, just ignorant or negligent. Something like a one-off script someone wrote to scrape the endpoint, and said script escaped into the wild, perhaps through a blog post, and was copied by others. One or more of those ended up deploying the script somewhere with the capacity to generate a lot of requests repeatedly, perhaps as a cron job.

everyone's trying to get into machine learning baby

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