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Libraries.io Has a Free API — Track 6M+ Open Source Packages Across 40 Platforms
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Libraries.io Has a Free API — Track 6M+ Open Source Packages Across 40 Platforms

via Dev.to WebdevAlex Spinov2h ago

Track Every Package Everywhere Libraries.io indexes 6M+ packages across 40 platforms: npm, PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, Go, NuGet, and more. Their API is free (60 requests/minute with API key). Setup Get a free API key at libraries.io (sign in with GitHub). Search Packages import requests API_KEY = " your_key " def search ( query , platform = " npm " , limit = 5 ): r = requests . get ( " https://libraries.io/api/search " , params = { " q " : query , " platforms " : platform , " per_page " : limit , " api_key " : API_KEY }) return [{ " name " : p [ " name " ], " stars " : p . get ( " stars " , 0 ), " rank " : p . get ( " rank " , 0 )} for p in r . json ()] results = search ( " web scraping " , " Pypi " ) for r in results : print ( f " { r [ name ] : 25 } Stars: { r [ stars ] : > 6 } Rank: { r [ rank ] } " ) Get Package Details def get_package ( platform , name ): r = requests . get ( f " https://libraries.io/api/ { platform } / { name } " , params = { " api_key " : API_KEY }) p = r . json ()

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