Is there a supported API/method for getting a list of PEP numbers and their titles?

I have an app which lists all the PEP numbers and their descriptions. I had been scraping the PEP index, as that was the only way I could find in the past. But recent changes to the PEP rendering broke my scraper, and I feel like it's probably not a good idea to simply fix it and move on - I'd rather find something more reliable.

Is there any web API, or just a URL pointing to a document with a stable structure, that lets me get a list like I describe? I can't fetch the PEP index from this repo, because it's built on demand, and the nature of the application where I need the data means I can only realistically do a URL fetch (grabbing the repo and doing a build isn't feasible).

https://peps.python.org/api/peps.json exists. It's considered "experimental" but it does provide all the PEP metadata/information. With PEP 8, for example:

 "8": {
  "title": "Style Guide for Python Code",
  "authors": "GvR, Warsaw, Coghlan",
  "discussions_to": null,
  "status": "Active",
  "type": "Process",
  "created": "05-Jul-2001",
  "python_version": null,
  "post_history": "05-Jul-2001, 01-Aug-2013",
  "resolution": null,
  "requires": null,
  "replaces": null,
  "superseded_by": null,
  "url": "https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/"
 },

It only provides the headers though, and not the contents of each of the rendered PEPs.

Awesome! That provides everything I need, thanks 🙂

Neato, closing since I reckon this is resolved. :)

xref #2584 for documenting the file.

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