Packagist Package Search — Public API
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$0.25 / 1,000 packagist packages
Packagist Package Search — Public API
Search or browse popular PHP Composer packages through Packagist's anonymous public API. Fast summary metadata only: no per-package detail, GitHub enrichment, or credential setup.
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$0.25 / 1,000 packagist packages
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Search the public Packagist catalog or browse popular Composer/PHP packages and export structured package rows.
Use it for PHP package discovery, dependency research, ecosystem analysis, package-market research, catalog datasets, and automated software-data workflows.
Common use cases
- Discover Composer packages by keyword
- Browse popular packages without per-package enrichment calls
- Research package descriptions, repositories, downloads, and favorites
- Build bounded PHP ecosystem datasets
- Feed Packagist search results into downstream analysis or automation
What you get
One package row can include package name, vendor/package split, description, canonical Packagist URL, repository URL when supplied, downloads, favorites, source rank/page and exact search provenance.
Source
Official anonymous Packagist endpoints:
https://packagist.org/search.jsonhttps://packagist.org/explore/popular.json
Packagist documents both endpoints for anonymous use. The Popular endpoint is specifically provided so consumers do not need to fetch download statistics package-by-package.
Input
Modes:
- Popular packages — Store default
- Search packages — optional query, package type, or tag
Hard cap: 1,000 package rows.
Important limitations
This low-touch v1 deliberately uses only list/search responses. It does not call per-package detail endpoints, fetch version history or dependency maps, query GitHub, fetch maintainers or security advisories, or crawl package websites.
That keeps a 1,000-row run bounded to roughly 10 source pages rather than 1,000+ enrichment calls.
Pricing
Only successfully saved package rows are billed. Legitimate empty and budget-limit summaries are non-billed.
Private candidate target: $0.25 per 1,000 package rows, subject to live economics and final market-floor recheck.
Public release is a separate decision.
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