Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems

Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems Downloads API

The Downloads API from Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems — 2 operation(s) for downloads.

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Operations 2

GET /api/v1/downloads/{gem_full_name}.json Get Downloads For A Gem Version #

GET /api/v1/downloads.json Get Total Rubygems Download Count #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: RubyGems.org Registry Activity Downloads API
  description: OpenAPI description of the public REST API for rubygems.org, the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Covers the v1 surface documented at https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api/ and the v2 versions endpoint documented at https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api-v2/.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: RubyGems.org Support
    url: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://rubygems.org
  description: Production registry
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Downloads
paths:
  /api/v1/downloads/{gem_full_name}.json:
    get:
      operationId: getVersionDownloads
      summary: Get Downloads For A Gem Version
      description: Returns the total download count for a specific gem version (name plus version, e.g. "rails-7.1.3").
      tags:
      - Downloads
      parameters:
      - name: gem_full_name
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Download count
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DownloadCount'
  /api/v1/downloads.json:
    get:
      operationId: getTotalDownloads
      summary: Get Total Rubygems Download Count
      description: Returns the total number of gem downloads ever counted across rubygems.org.
      tags:
      - Downloads
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Total downloads
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TotalDownloads'
components:
  schemas:
    TotalDownloads:
      type: object
      properties:
        total:
          type: integer
    DownloadCount:
      type: object
      properties:
        total_downloads:
          type: integer
        version_downloads:
          type: integer
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: RubyGems API key issued in the user account settings.
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic

Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems Downloads API

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