GET packagist.org HTTP 200142 ms4.8 KB$0.000041 captured Aug 7, 2026
packagist.org, as data
One API turns any packagist.org page into markdown, structured JSON, its link graph or a screenshot, and crawls the whole site the same way. The panel shows the real response we captured.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 142 ms
- Page size
- 4.8 KB of markdown, 72 lines
- Fields
- Getting Started Publishing Packages, Getting Started Title, Latest News Date, Title
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This packagist.org page cost $0.000041 to fetch.
Packagist is the main Composer repository. It aggregates public PHP packages installable with Composer.Add the `composer.json` to your git or other VCS repository and commit it.### Publish ItOnce you entered your public repository URL in there, your package will be automatically crawled periodically. You just have to make sure you keep the composer.json file up to date.### Sharing Private CodeUse Private Packagist if you want to share private code as a Composer package with colleagues or customers without publishing it for everyone on Packagist.org. Private Packagist allows you to manage your own private Composer repository with per-user authentication, team management and integration in version control systems.## Latest News### Announcing the Composer & Packagist Sponsorship Program - Jul 30, 2026Today we are launching a formal sponsorship program for Composer and Packagist.org, together with new public sponsor pages on packagist.org/sponsor and getcomposer.org/sponsor. We want to start by tha...### Immutable Versions on Packagist - Jul 07, 2026This is the next post in our supply chain security series, following the supply chain security update and the Composer 2.10 release. Each post in this series covers a specific behavior worth understan...### Composer 2.10 Release - May 28, 2026We are excited to announce the release of Composer 2.10.0, introducing native malware filtering and consolidated future-proof customizable dependency policy configuration to control the handling of se...### An update on Composer & Packagist supply chain security - May 27, 2026The last months, and even more so the last weeks, saw an increasing amount of software supply chain attacks targeting open-source ecosystems. A handful of these have hit the PHP ecosystem too, via tak...### Composer 2.9.8 and 2.2.28 fix GitHub Actions token disclosure in error messages - May 13, 2026 What Spider does on packagist.org
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
142 ms · $0.000041Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
Rendered capture
Real Chromium, full-page PNG. The same call also returns the rendered HTML.
The call behind the panel
This request produced the response above. Paste it with your key and you get the same bytes.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://packagist.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}' from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://packagist.org/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"]) import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://packagist.org/", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content); What packagist.org costs
Multiplied from the measured 4.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
1 GB of transfer costs $1, plus $0.001 per CPU minute, and failed requests cost $0. Crawling daily? The Unlimited plan is a flat monthly rate.
Point this at the rest of packagist.org.
The capture above took 142 ms and cost $0.000041. The same call takes any URL on packagist.org.