python - How does one get pypi package metadata for an uninstalled package - preferably in JSON?

pip show doesn't work for packages that aren't installed and does not output in JSON. Is there a way to make it do so?

pip show django    
WARNING: Package(s) not found: django

Is there any way of getting package metadata from the command line? Besides writing a scraper for the pypi website of course.

pip show doesn't work for packages that aren't installed and does not output in JSON. Is there a way to make it do so?

pip show django    
WARNING: Package(s) not found: django

Is there any way of getting package metadata from the command line? Besides writing a scraper for the pypi website of course.

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Okay according to [this answer](https://stackoverflow/a/75732843/1892584) to a question about fetching dependencies, you can add /json

Like so:

curl https://pypi./pypi/django/json