In a post to his site Freek Van der Herten shows you how to gather information from the Packagist website about the number of times that your packages have been downloaded.

At my work I’m currently creating a new dashboard. That’s a fancy term for an html page sprinkled with some Vue magic that will be displayed on tv screen at the wall of our office. I won’t say much about the dashboard itself on this post, but I’ll make sure to write something on that in the near future.

One of the things I want to display on our dashboard is how many times our packages get downloaded (yeah it’s a vanity project, sorry about that :-)). To make this real easy our intern Jolita and I cooked up a new package called packagist-api. It uses the packagist api to fetch data about published packages.

They include an example of the package in use, fetching the list of packages for the "spatie" vendor and getting the details by package name. The results include more information than just the download count as well (including current version, maintainers and the basic description). The post ends with an example of filtering out the downloads counts and putting them into a collection for later use.