Buildpacks Io

buildpacks-io Search API

Search the buildpack registry by keyword

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Cloud Native Registry Buildpacks Search API
  description: 'The Buildpack Registry API serves the registry-index for the Cloud Native Buildpacks community registry. It exposes endpoints for searching the registry by keyword and for retrieving namespaced buildpack version metadata. The registry is backed by the `buildpacks/registry-index` GitHub repository and is consumed by the `pack` CLI (`pack buildpack pull/register/yank`) and by buildpack authors who publish to the public CNB registry.

    '
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Cloud Native Buildpacks
    url: https://buildpacks.io
  license:
    name: Apache-2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: https://registry.buildpacks.io/api/v1
  description: Public Buildpack Registry
tags:
- name: Search
  description: Search the buildpack registry by keyword
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      summary: Search Buildpacks
      description: 'Search the registry-index for buildpacks whose id, namespace, description, or keywords match the supplied terms.

        '
      operationId: searchBuildpacks
      tags:
      - Search
      parameters:
      - name: matches
        in: query
        required: true
        description: One or more space-separated keywords to match.
        schema:
          type: string
          example: nodejs
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search results
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  matches:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/BuildpackSummary'
                required:
                - matches
components:
  schemas:
    BuildpackSummary:
      type: object
      description: Short-form match returned by /search.
      properties:
        namespace:
          type: string
          description: Registry namespace.
          example: paketo-buildpacks
        name:
          type: string
          description: Buildpack name within the namespace.
          example: nodejs
        description:
          type: string
        latest_version:
          type: string
          example: 4.5.1