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"Client Challenge - PyPI" shown instead of package name #17749

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NavodPeiris opened this issue Mar 11, 2025 · 2 comments
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"Client Challenge - PyPI" shown instead of package name #17749

NavodPeiris opened this issue Mar 11, 2025 · 2 comments
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NavodPeiris commented Mar 11, 2025

when i search my package on browser it shows "Client Challenge - PyPI" with my package link instead of showing package name and metadata. this happened on Microsoft Edge browser but when i used chrome package does not even come up. package has 28K downloads and was showing correctly when i last checked months ago.

edge:
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chrome:
well the package does not even come up

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di commented Mar 11, 2025

Hi, this is due to bot mitigation we have enabled, see https://discuss.python.org/t/fastly-interfering-with-pypi-search/73597/6 for more details.

We may be able to exempt certain known search engine bots, it looks like the one from your example is Bing, but the same thing is probably affecting Google, DuckDuckGo, etc.

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di commented Mar 12, 2025

We've exempted "Verified Bots" from the client challenge. This includes BingBot, which means Bing will now be able to crawl your project page to populate the search results, although there is no timeline for when this might happen.

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