Feature Request: Package popularity by packages explicitly installed

[zzzachzzz]

I think a helpful feature for users using pkgstats as a means of package browsing and discovery, would be the ability to view package popularity based on packages that were explicitly installed (pacman -Q --explicit).

I queried the api for the top 5000 packages as a means of browsing packages, and had to filter through the majority of packages being popular dependencies, such as the abundance of lib* packages, python-*, packages, etc.

[m1rm]

hey @zzzachzzz I have a question. Based on you mentioning that you want to filter out (for example) libraries, maybe taking into account app stream data would suit your needs better, compared to going by explicit install reason?

Using the explicit install reason might help in the same way, but also a library can be installed explicitly by a user. That surely is somewhat unlikely but maybe app stream data is a better source for us to implement such a filter.