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Composer Insights is a CLI tool that analyzes your PHP project's composer dependencies and provides insightful GitHub and Packagist statistics for each top-level dependency.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Analyze direct dependencies from composer
• ⭐ Fetch GitHub repository data: stars, forks, open issues, last update
• 📈 Get download stats from Packagist
• 🧹 Clean tabular output in the terminal
• 🛑 Gracefully skips non-GitHub packages
• ⚡ Fast, dependency-free CLI experience

💡Example Output

🔍 Fetching Composer Dependency Insights

+-------------------+---------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+--------------+----------------------------+
| Package           | License | Version (Latest|Used) | Stars | Forks | Open Issues | Downloads | Last Updated | Last Release (Date | Time) |
+-------------------+---------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+--------------+----------------------------+
| guzzlehttp/guzzle | MIT     | 7.9.3 | 7.9.3         | 23.4k | 2.4k | 31           | 845.5M    | 1 day ago    | 2025-03-27 | 2 months ago  |
| nesbot/carbon     | MIT     | 3.9.1 | 3.9.1         | 89 | 12 | 2                 | 556.4M    | 8 hours ago  | 2025-05-01 | 4 weeks ago   |
| symfony/console   | MIT     | v7.3.0 | v7.3.0       | 9.8k | 264 | 1              | 933.1M    | 23 hours ago | 2025-05-29 | 1 day ago     |
| pestphp/pest      | MIT     | v3.8.2 | v3.8.2       | 10.3k | 386 | 168           | 33M       | 3 hours ago  | 2025-04-17 | 1 month ago   |
+-------------------+---------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+--------------+----------------------------+

✅ Done

📥 Installation

You can install it in any Composer-based local PHP project as dev dependency:

composer require composer-insights/composer-insights --dev

Make sure your project has both composer.json and composer.lock files.

To avoid GitHub API rate limits and to enable access to private repos, set your GitHub token as an environment variable:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=your_github_token

You can generate a personal access token from https://github.com/settings/tokens

📸 Screenshots

Classic Token Option

Privillages For Token

🧪 Usage

Run the following command to start the analysis:

vendor/bin/composer-insights analyze

🔧 Command Options

Development Dependencies

You can control whether to include or exclude development dependencies using these options:

• --dev: Include development dependencies in the analysis
• --no-dev: Exclude development dependencies from the analysis

By default, all dependencies will be considered

This will:

• Parse your composer file
• Check each direct dependency (ignores transitive)
• Fetch GitHub and Packagist stats
• Display a beautiful CLI table

📋 Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher
• A Composer-based project
• Internet connection

🪪 License

This package is open-sourced under the MIT License.

🔐 Security

If you discover a security vulnerability within this package, please send an e-mail to sagautam5@gmail.com, All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.

🤝 Contributing

Want to contribute to Composer Insights ? Please read our Contributing Guide for details on our code of conduct and the process for submitting pull requests.

We welcome all contributions, whether it's:

• Reporting a bug
• Discussing the current state of the code
• Submitting a fix
• Proposing new features
• Becoming a maintainer

🙌 Contributors

• Sagar Gautam – Creator & Maintainer
• ALL Contributors

Enjoy analyzing your dependencies! 🎉