If the user wants to donate he would hit the command thanks requirements.txt donate which would show links to the authors patreon pages. While thanks requirements tweet would show the authors twitter profile links using which user can tweet the author expressing his love for the library.

The same for github as well - it would show github project links which helps people star the project.

I was planning to put this up in the package that I'm building but thought of chiming in my thoughts here instead of building yet another thanks library 😄

You've currently got two README files in the project's root directory. Probably not intentional? Note also the interaction with MANIFEST.in, which currently ignores README.md - maybe that's intentional?

See #23 (comment)

A suggestion from @EricaJoy was to figure out some way of reading this info from the packages themselves, rather than a central database.

(Relates to feross/thanks#2)

Today, few-to-no package authors are capturing this metadata in their packages. Two approaches that come to mind:

1. Make it possible for that info to go in the setup.py
   • Ideally this would also be fetchable via PyPI API.
2. Encourage maintainers to ship a .thanks.json in their packages, and check from the package to read from there.

Edit: I have filed pypa/setuptools#1276 to try and get the ball rolling on this.

Because packages often come with dependencies that are not always written in requirements files, I'd love to be able to run thanks anywhere without argument, and having it to get the packages to scan from a simple pip freeze.

Such a feature would be particularly interesting in virtualenv settings, and make thanks work in a similar fashion than feross/thanks.

PS: thank you for writing this piece of code! I definitely wanted to do it too when I saw the JS version 10 days ago, and it was actually a top priority in my spare time to-do list… but it looks like I was too slow. 😄

• Thanks version: 0.0.7
• Python version: 3.6.2
• Operating System: Linux ... 4.10.0-38-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 16:32:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Description

Describe what you were trying to get done.
Tell us what happened, what went wrong, and what you expected to happen.

Possibly Helpful: pypa/pip#5243

What I Did

└> thanks Pipfile
Loading data about contributors...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/bin/thanks", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/thanks/cli.py", line 14, in main
    Thanks(debug=debug).find_package_roles(requirements)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/thanks/thanks.py", line 29, in __init__
    for package in pip.get_installed_distributions():
AttributeError: module 'pip' has no attribute 'get_installed_distributions'

#20 moved the default display to show information about dependencies.

We SHOULD provide a flag to again provide detailed information about the authors of the projects.

From discussion in #pypa on freenode:

It would be great if thanks <package name> just worked, even on packages that weren't installed locally.

What we want to do is shell out to pip list from thanks, parse the list and get the packages that way.

• Thanks version: 0.0.7
• Python version: 3.6.2
• Operating System: Linux ... 4.10.0-38-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 16:32:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Description

I'd like to be able to run thanks on Pipfile, as I do not have a requirements.txt and track that in Pipfile instead. The documentation for Pipfile is at: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile

What I Did

$ thanks Pipfile
Loading data about contributors...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/bin/thanks", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/thanks/cli.py", line 14, in main
    Thanks(debug=debug).find_package_roles(requirements)
  File "/home/erich/.local/share/virtualenvs/hermes-1m2DSN2C/lib/python3.6/site-packages/thanks/thanks.py", line 29, in __init__
    for package in pip.get_installed_distributions():
AttributeError: module 'pip' has no attribute 'get_installed_distributions'

Whilst funding links may belong to an author, they might not.

Primary focus should be on funding and giving thanks to on a project basis
whether that be to an authors, group, or organisation.

Proposed output

Scanning your requirements file...
Loading data about projects...
You depend on x projects who would enjoy donations!

  Project     Where to thank                    Author

  click       https://www.paypal.me/untitaker   untitaker
  thanks      https://patreon.com/phildini      phildini, tomdottom
  virtualenv  https://earn.com/brosner/         brosner, jezdez

Current output

$ thanks foo.txt

Loading data about contributors...
Scanning your requirements file...
You depend on 4 authors who would enjoy donations!

  Author      Where to thank                    Packages

  untitaker   https://www.paypal.me/untitaker   click
  phildini    https://patreon.com/phildini      thanks
  brosner     https://earn.com/brosner/         virtualenv
  jezdez      https://www.paypal.me/jezdez      virtualenv