Search packagist.org from CLI

packagist-search.sh

#!/usr/bin/env sh
#
# Search packagist.org from CLI with support for sorting results by the number
# of downloads or favorites.
#
# Temporary solution for https://github.com/composer/packagist/issues/365
#
# Dependencies:
#   - [curl](http://curl.haxx.se/)
#   - [jq](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
#

set -o errexit

PER_PAGE=25
MAX_RESULTS=5
SORT_BY="downloads"
JQ_BIN=$(which jq)
CURL_BIN=$(which curl)

_show_usage () {
cat << EOF
usage: $0 [-l|--limit <results>]
    [-s|--sort <downloads|favorites>]
    [-h|--help]
    <search>
EOF
}

while [ $# -gt 1 ]
do
    key="$1"

    case $key in

        -l|--limit)
            if [ "$2" -gt 100 ] || [ "$2" -lt 25 ]; then
                echo "[Error]: Limit should be between 25 and 100"
                exit 1
            else    
                PER_PAGE="$2"
                shift
            fi
        ;;

        -s|--sort)
            if [ "$2" = "downloads" ] || [ "$2" = "favorites" ]; then
                SORT_BY="$2"
                shift
            else
                echo "[Error]: Can't sort by $2"
                exit 1
            fi
        ;;
        -h|--help)
            _show_usage
            exit 0
        ;;
        
        *)
            _show_usage
            exit 0
        ;;
    esac
    shift
done

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
    _show_usage
fi

RESULTS_START=$((PER_PAGE - MAX_RESULTS))

$CURL_BIN -s "https://packagist.org/search.json?per_page=$PER_PAGE&q=$1" | $JQ_BIN "[ .results[]] | sort_by(.${SORT_BY}) | .[$RESULTS_START:$PER_PAGE]"

Notes:

• Will sort only the results from the first page, so if you need betterish results, increase the limit of results per page with --limit <no> (max: 100).
• Will show only the top 5 results for each search. You can change that from MAX_RESULTS=5

Dont work on MacOS 10.14.5, i run:
./packagist-search.sh -s=downloads laraveld-vote

and its return nothing.

Any updates here?

Thanks