📋 ListPackages

Fetches the list of all package names on Packagist.

When to use

📋 Build a local package name index or search engine; 🛠️ initialize the full list for a self-hosted mirror; 🔍 combine with GetPackage to batch-pull details.

Signature

func (c *ComposerClient) ListPackages() (*domain.PackageListResponse, error)

Parameters

This method takes no parameters.

Return value

Value	Type	Description
Result	*domain.PackageListResponse	PackageNames is a []string of package names
Error	error	Returned on HTTP failure, non-200 status, or JSON parse failure

Corresponding endpoint: GET https://packagist.org/packages/list.json.

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"time"

	"github.com/scagogogo/composer-skills/pkg/client"
)

func main() {
	c := client.NewComposerClient(30 * time.Second)

	resp, err := c.ListPackages()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Total packages: %d\n", len(resp.PackageNames))
	for _, name := range resp.PackageNames[:3] {
		fmt.Println("  -", name)
	}
}

Advanced

Data volume

This endpoint returns the full set of package names (hundreds of thousands of entries), so the response body is large. If you need to filter, prefer the more targeted variants below instead of pulling the full list and filtering locally.

• 🏢 To filter by vendor, use ListPackagesByVendor.
• 🧩 To filter by type, use ListPackagesByType.
• 📦 To also get fields such as repository / type, use ListPackagesWithData.