API documentation

Packagist has a public API to consume data. See bellow the most important URIs:

• List packages by organization
• Search packages by tag
• Search packages by name
• Get a package by name

GET https://packagist.org/packages/list.json?vendor=[vendor]

{
  "packageNames": [
    "[vendor]/[package]",
    ...
  ]
}

GET https://packagist.org/search.json?tags=[tag]

{
  "results": [
    {
      "name": "[vendor]/[package]",
      "description": "[description]",
      "url": "https://packagist.org/packages/[vendor]/[package]",
      "repository": "[repository url]",
      "downloads": [number of downloads],
      "favers": [number of favers]
    }
    ...
  ],
  "total": [numbers of results]
}

GET https://packagist.org/search.json?q=[query]

{
  "results" : [
    {
      "name": "[vendor]/[package]",
      "description": "[description]",
      "url": "https://packagist.org/packages/[vendor]/[package]",
      "repository": [repository url],
      "downloads": [number of downloads],
      "favers": [number of favers]
    },
    ...
  ],
  "total": [number of results],
  "next": "https://packagist.org/search.json?q=[query]&page=[next page number]"
}

GET https://packagist.org/packages/[vendor]/[package].json

{
  "package": {
    "name": "[vendor]/[package],
    "description": [description],
    "time": [time of the last release],
    "maintainers": [list of maintainers],
    "versions": [list of versions and their dependencies, the same data of composer.json]
    "type": [package type],
    "repository": [repository url],
    "downloads": {
      "total": [numbers of download],
      "monthly": [numbers of download per month],
      "daily": [numbers of download per day]
    },
    "favers": [number of favers]
  }
}