Interesting to note nearly half of the $26,615 raised was a single donation from Spotify ($12,900). They made the donation as it's the fourth most used Python library by Spotify (noted in the link to Spotify, I wander what the first three are?).<p>It would be good to see more large companies making these sorts of donations. It's not like Spotify is unique in its usage of Urllib.
Note that the popular "requests" module depends on urllib3.<p>This space is a little messy for python. The old urllib ships with python, but it doesn't support some normal expected things like HTTP/1.1 pipelined requests. It adds a "Connection: close" header to each request.
If 1.63% of PyPi is worth $26615/yr, the implication is all of PyPi added together would only be worth $1.6M, which seems low.<p>Its interesting to compare to other industries. "In the old days" the way to make money during a gold rush was not to try to mine gold after the good stuff was already dug up, but to sell shovels to wanna-be miners. Apparently, software is nearly the opposite of that, LOL.
While I appreciate Indeed sponsoring, but why $420?
Are you kidding Indeed?<p>Your entire business is build around web scraping and using libraries to pull data from other sources. Common, you can do better!