backage

It's all part and parcel

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The GitHub Packages API doesn't expose much of the publicly-available metadata that other registries provide. This completely automated closed-loop system is the solution. Just star this project to have GitHub supplement its API with an additional endpoint for your public packages!

A service ran by GitHub will add them to its circular priority queue within the next few hours and update the dataset. If you'd then like the service to forget and ignore some or all of your packages, add owner[/repo[/package]] to optout.txt here and make a pull request.

To add any other users or organizations not yet in the index, add the case-sensitive name of each one on a new line in owners.txt on your own fork here and make a pull request. Please add just the name(s) -- ids, repos, and packages will be found automatically!

Metadata Endpoint

https://ipitio.github.io/backage/OWNER/REPO/PACKAGE.FORMAT

Use something like shields.io/json or shields.io/xml with this endpoint to access the latest data and make badges like the ones above. Replace OWNER/REPO/PACKAGE.FORMAT with their respective values.

Note

The format can be either json or xml. You'll need the XML endpoint to evaluate expressions, like filters, with Shields -- see this issue.

Tip

Use the proxy to convert external JSON to XML! This doesn't currently work with Shields, though.

You'll find these properties for the package and its versions:

Package

Property	Type	Description
owner_id	number	The ID of the owner
owner_type	string	The type of owner (e.g. users)
package_type	string	The type of package (e.g. container)
owner	string	The owner of the package
repo	string	The repository of the package
package	string	The package name
date	string	The most recent date the package was refreshed
size	string	Formatted size of the latest version
versions	string	Formatted count of all versions ever tracked
tagged	string	Formatted count of all tagged versions ever tracked
downloads	string	Formatted count of all downloads
downloads_month	string	Formatted count of all downloads in the last month
downloads_week	string	Formatted count of all downloads in the last week
downloads_day	string	Formatted count of all downloads in the last day
raw_size	number	Size of the latest version, in bytes
raw_versions	number	Count of versions tracked
raw_tagged	number	Count of tagged versions tracked
raw_downloads	number	Count of all downloads
raw_downloads_month	number	Count of all downloads in the last month
raw_downloads_week	number	Count of all downloads in the last week
raw_downloads_day	number	Count of all downloads in the last day
version	object array	The versions of the package (see below)

Version

Property	Type	Description
id	number	The ID of the version
name	string	The version name
date	string	The most recent date the version was refreshed
newest	boolean	Whether the version is the newest
latest	boolean	Whether the version is the newest tagged
size	string	Formatted size of the version
downloads	string	Formatted count of downloads
downloads_month	string	Formatted count of downloads in the last month
downloads_week	string	Formatted count of downloads in the last week
downloads_day	string	Formatted number of downloads in the last day
raw_size	number	Size of the version, in bytes
raw_downloads	number	Count of downloads
raw_downloads_month	number	Count of downloads in the last month
raw_downloads_week	number	Count of downloads in the last week
raw_downloads_day	number	Count of downloads in the last day
tags	string array	The tags of the version

They can be queried with the following paths:

JSON

You can query a package for its properties, like size or version:

$.PROPERTY

$.size

Versions may be filtered in and tags out:

$.version[FILTER].PROPERTY

$.version[?(@.latest)].tags[?(@!="latest")]

XML

You can query a package for its properties, like size or version:

/bkg/PROPERTY

/bkg/size

Versions can be filtered in and tags out:

/bkg/version[FILTER]/PROPERTY

/bkg/version[./latest[.="true"]]/tags[.!="latest"]

JSON2XML Proxy

https://ipitio.github.io/backage?json=https://URLENCODED/JSON/PATH

Use your own JSON endpoint with this proxy to convert it into XML. Try it out in your browser:

https://ipitio.github.io/backage?json=https://ipitio.github.io/backage/ipitio/backage/backage.json