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openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: METACRAN CranDB Badges Downloads API
  description: CouchDB-backed REST API providing programmatic access to metadata for all CRAN R packages. Enables lookup of package information, version history, dependencies, and maintainer data in JSON format.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: METACRAN
    url: https://r-pkg.org
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
servers:
- url: https://crandb.r-pkg.org
  description: METACRAN CranDB production server
tags:
- name: Downloads
  description: Package download statistics
paths:
  /downloads/total/{period}/{packages}:
    get:
      operationId: getPackageDownloadTotals
      summary: Get Package Download Totals
      description: Returns the total number of downloads for one or more R packages over the specified time period from the RStudio CRAN mirror.
      tags:
      - Downloads
      parameters:
      - name: period
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Time period for download stats. Use last-day, last-week, last-month, grand-total, or a date range like 2023-01-01:2023-12-31.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - last-day
          - last-week
          - last-month
          - grand-total
          example: last-week
      - name: packages
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Package name or comma-separated list of package names.
        schema:
          type: string
          example: ggplot2
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Download totals for the specified packages
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/DownloadTotal'
  /downloads/daily/{period}/{packages}:
    get:
      operationId: getPackageDownloadDaily
      summary: Get Package Daily Downloads
      description: Returns daily download counts for one or more R packages over the specified time period.
      tags:
      - Downloads
      parameters:
      - name: period
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Time period (last-day, last-week, last-month, or date range)
        schema:
          type: string
          example: last-month
      - name: packages
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Package name or comma-separated list
        schema:
          type: string
          example: dplyr,tidyr
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Daily download counts for the specified packages
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/DownloadDaily'
components:
  schemas:
    DownloadTotal:
      type: object
      properties:
        package:
          type: string
          description: R package name
          example: ggplot2
        start:
          type: string
          format: date
          description: Start date of the period
          example: '2024-01-01'
        end:
          type: string
          format: date
          description: End date of the period
          example: '2024-01-07'
        downloads:
          type: integer
          description: Total download count for the period
          example: 142835
    DailyCount:
      type: object
      properties:
        day:
          type: string
          format: date
          description: Date of downloads
          example: '2024-01-15'
        downloads:
          type: integer
          description: Number of downloads on this day
          example: 4821
    DownloadDaily:
      type: object
      properties:
        package:
          type: string
          description: R package name
          example: dplyr
        start:
          type: string
          format: date
          description: Start date of the period
          example: '2024-01-01'
        end:
          type: string
          format: date
          description: End date of the period
          example: '2024-01-31'
        downloads:
          type: array
          description: Daily download counts
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/DailyCount'