Packagist Scraper

hipersoft/packagist-scraper

Look up exact PHP Composer packages or search Packagist in bulk and get clean structured data: latest version, total/monthly/daily downloads, favers, type, license, authors, requirements, repository and homepage. Built for dependency audits, dev tooling and n8n.

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Total users

Monthly users

Total runs

Per package scraped

$0.001

Last rebuilt

Oct 26, 2026

Overview

Look up exact PHP Composer packages by name or search Packagist in bulk and get back clean, structured JSON for every package: latest version, total, monthly and daily download counts, favers, package type, license, authors, requirements, and repository and homepage links. Built for PHP developers, dependency auditors and OSS analysts who need reliable, ready-to-use Composer package data. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

Features

🎯 Exact lookups — pass precise vendor/name packages like monolog/monolog, guzzlehttp/guzzle or symfony/console and get one clean record each.
🔎 Bulk search — run a free-text query (http client, logging, orm) and collect matching packages up to your limit.
📊 Download metrics — capture total, monthly and daily downloads plus favers for popularity and trend analysis.
🧾 Licenses & requirements — every record includes license, type and the latest version's requires map for fast auditing.
🔗 Ready-to-use links — repository, homepage and the canonical Packagist url.
🧩 Integrations — plug the output straight into n8n, Make, Zapier and more.
⚙️ Reliable by design — retry-with-backoff and graceful handling of missing packages so runs finish cleanly.

What you get

Each package becomes one clean JSON record.

{
  "name": "monolog/monolog",
  "description": "Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services",
  "latestVersion": "3.10.0",
  "downloads": { "total": 1051647307, "monthly": 18488587, "daily": 337950 },
  "favers": 22272,
  "repository": "https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog",
  "type": "library",
  "license": ["MIT"],
  "authors": ["Jordi Boggiano"],
  "requires": { "php": ">=8.1", "psr/log": "^2.0 || ^3.0" },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog",
  "url": "https://packagist.org/packages/monolog/monolog",
  "ok": true
}

Output schema

Field	Type	Description
`name`	string	Package name in `vendor/name` form.
`description`	string	Package description / summary.
`latestVersion`	string	Latest published version.
`downloads`	object	Download counts: `total`, `monthly` and `daily`.
`favers`	integer	Number of users who favorited the package.
`repository`	string (URL)	Source repository URL.
`type`	string	Composer package type (e.g. `library`, `symfony-bundle`).
`license`	array	SPDX license identifiers.
`authors`	array	Package author names.
`requires`	object	Requirements of the latest version (package → version constraint).
`homepage`	string (URL)	Project homepage.
`url`	string (URL)	Canonical Packagist page for the package.
`ok`	boolean	`true` for a fetched package; `false` with an `error` for one that could not be found.

Input

{
  "packages": ["monolog/monolog", "guzzlehttp/guzzle", "symfony/console"],
  "search": "http client",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Field	Description
`packages`	Exact `vendor/name` packages to look up. Always fetched, in addition to any search results.
`search`	Free-text query matching package name and description. Matches are collected up to `maxItems`.
`maxItems`	Maximum number of packages to collect from the search query (1–5000).

Provide packages, search, or both in a single run.

Use cases

Audit the licenses and requirements of the packages in your composer.json before shipping.
Track download momentum to compare competing packages in a category.
Build a catalog of packages for a topic (e.g. HTTP clients) for research or content.
Enrich an internal dependency dashboard with versions, descriptions and repo links.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you're billed a small amount per package scraped — you only pay for what you get. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

FAQ

How many packages can I scrape per run? Add any number of exact vendor/name packages in the packages field and collect up to maxItems (5000) more from a search query — all in one run.

What's the output format? Structured JSON — one record per package with fields such as latestVersion, downloads, favers, type, license, authors and requires. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

What happens to a package name that doesn't exist? It's returned as a record with ok: false and an error, so a typo never breaks the run — every other package is still scraped.

Can I use this with n8n? Yes. Run the actor from the Apify node for n8n and map the package records straight into your workflow — enrich a dependency list, trigger alerts on new versions, or sync package data into a database or spreadsheet.

Can I connect this Actor to other apps? The Packagist Scraper works with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform: Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Tracking packages across ecosystems? Pair this with our other developer-data scrapers:

npm Package Scraper — search and look up npm packages with metadata, dependencies and downloads.
PyPI Package Scraper — metadata, dependencies, licenses and downloads for Python packages.
RubyGems Scraper — Ruby gems with downloads, versions, licenses and dependencies.
crates.io Scraper — Rust crates with downloads, versions, license and repository links.

Notes

This actor reads only publicly available package data from Packagist. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Packagist, Composer or their maintainers; "Packagist" and "Composer" are trademarks of their respective owners. Original clean-room implementation.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`packages` Exact package names	array	Look up specific PHP Composer packages by their exact "vendor/name", e.g. "monolog/monolog", "guzzlehttp/guzzle", "symfony/console". Combined with any search results in the same run.
`search` Search query	string	Free-text Packagist search (matches package name and description), e.g. "http client". Matching packages are collected up to Max items.
`maxItems` Max items (search)	integer	Maximum number of packages to collect from the search query. Exact package names above are always fetched in addition to this. Default: `100`

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hipersoft~packagist-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "packages": [
    "monolog/monolog",
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle"
  ],
  "search": "http client"
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("hipersoft/packagist-scraper").call(run_input={
    "packages": [
        "monolog/monolog",
        "guzzlehttp/guzzle"
    ],
    "search": "http client"
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hipersoft/packagist-scraper').call({
  "packages": [
    "monolog/monolog",
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle"
  ],
  "search": "http client"
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Event	Price	Paid plans from
Package Scraped Charged per package scraped.	$0.001	$0.0005

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.

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