Packagist PHP Packages Scraper – Downloads, Stars & Versions

Get clean PHP / Composer package data from Packagist: total & monthly downloads, GitHub stars, favers, latest version, license, type and repository. Search by query or pull specific vendor/pkg names. As JSON, CSV or Excel. Free, no key, no proxy.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — ~$0.001 per package (about $1 per 1,000). No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the data you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

• Package name, description, type and repository
• Total & monthly downloads
• GitHub stars and Packagist favers
• Latest stable version + license
• Primary language
• Search Packagist or fetch exact packages by name

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a mode and set the input (see examples below).
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input examples

Search mode:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "laravel",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Specific packages:

{
  "mode": "packages",
  "packageNames": ["monolog/monolog", "guzzlehttp/guzzle"]
}

📦 Output example

{
  "name": "monolog/monolog",
  "description": "Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services",
  "type": "library",
  "repository": "https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog",
  "language": "PHP",
  "downloads_total": 1014935423,
  "downloads_monthly": 16503389,
  "github_stars": 21394,
  "favers": 22259,
  "latest_version": "3.10.0",
  "license": ["MIT"],
  "url": "https://packagist.org/packages/monolog/monolog"
}

🎯 Use cases

• Dependency & supply-chain intelligence
• Tracking package popularity and adoption
• Building PHP/Composer package datasets
• Competitive research on libraries and vendors
• Feeding dev-tooling, dashboards and AI assistants

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.10 · 1,000 → ~$1 · 10,000 → ~$10

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Downloads (total + monthly)	✅	partial
GitHub stars + favers	✅	rarely
Latest stable version + license	✅	partial
Search or exact package lookup	✅	one only
No key / no proxy	✅	sometimes

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❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No. Bulk? Use search with maxItems, or pass many vendor/pkg names in packages mode.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data via the public Packagist.org JSON API. Only public package metadata is collected.

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Keywords: packagist scraper, php packages, composer, dependency data, package downloads, github stars, developer tools, JSON CSV Excel