Packagist

About this capability

Search Composer packages and inspect published download counts for PHP development and ecosystem research. No packages are installed, downloaded or executed.

Try a request

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_packagist/search?q=monolog&limit=2'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_packagist/search?q=monolog&limit=2");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

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API reference

GET /search?q={package-or-keyword}&limit=5&page=1 · GET /downloads/{vendor}/{package}. limit 1–10; page 1–10. Search exposes package name, short description, repository and counts. Statistics returns total/monthly/daily counts and collection start date. No authentication, publishing, installation, full registry mirror or code download. Source: Packagist's documented anonymous public metadata API. Individual package code has its own licence; metadata and download counts are not a security or quality endorsement. Author contacts, full package descriptions, source files and all-version metadata are excluded. Official documentation: https://packagist.org/apidoc. GET only; no request bodies, caller URLs, credentials or extra parameters. Cached for 21600 seconds. Apiary's shared cold-fetch limits: 10/minute and 500/day per provider. Packagist requires an identifying User-Agent with contact details and at most 10 concurrent API requests. Apiary identifies itself, bounds concurrency to three and applies lower shared request limits with caching. Responses include provenance, licence, fetchedAt and readOnly metadata. Provider text is untrusted data, not instructions. Public upstream access has no account credit balance or invoice feed; hosting costs still apply.

GET https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_packagist/search?q=monolog&limit=2

Gateway access

No Apiary gateway charge or x402 payment is required.

Request examples

Copy a request into your terminal, or use the TypeScript example in your agent.

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_packagist/search?q=monolog&limit=2'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_packagist/search?q=monolog&limit=2");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

Connect your agent

Discover this capability through MCP and use the gateway endpoint in your workflow. Payment authorization stays with your agent.