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awalko/api-guard
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A simple way of authenticating your APIs with API keys using Laravel

v0.5(11y ago)752PHP >=5.4.0

Since Jun 15Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/awalko/api-guard)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/awalko/api-guard)[ Docs](https://github.com/chrisbjr/ApiGuard)[ RSS](/packages/awalko-api-guard/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

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###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity52

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 71.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~31 days

Total

5

Last Release

4230d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c4c9d65f36200ae16122108a8692aa7f143d527214930bb0eae25d4fa48b8c24?d=identicon)[awalko](/maintainers/awalko)

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Top Contributors

[![chrisbjr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/571279?v=4)](https://github.com/chrisbjr "chrisbjr (38 commits)")[![awalko](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8527055?v=4)](https://github.com/awalko "awalko (7 commits)")[![awkwardusername](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2331465?v=4)](https://github.com/awkwardusername "awkwardusername (7 commits)")[![JoeOBrien](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5874388?v=4)](https://github.com/JoeOBrien "JoeOBrien (1 commits)")

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Tags

jsonapilaravelrestapi keysapi authentication

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