import sphinxapi without dancing or simple installation of sphinxapi.py via pip

Slightly facilitated the installation of sphinxapi.py through pip.
Simply

pip install https://github.com/Romamo/sphinxapi/zipball/master

Use

import sphinxapi

When I decided to use Sphinxsearch for full-text search in my project, I just copied sphinxapi.py to myself. And, of course, I safely forgot about him for several years. However, sphinxsearch itself continued to be updated regularly. Fortunately, the API did not change and nothing unexpectedly broke.

The problem arose when using the new third-party library, which contained a concise

import sphinxapi

Copy again? Yes, and for all servers and environments? A ready-made package was found on the github , but it has not been updated for 3 years. Updated sphinxapi.py
Install fresh sphinxapi with one command

pip install https://github.com/Romamo/sphinxapi/zipball/master

Current API from 2.1.7 release

I will try to keep it up to date.