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

4.1.0(8y ago)698375.6k↓25%[2 PRs](https://github.com/chrisbjr/api-guard/pulls)5PHP >=5.6.4

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###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity49

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

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 ~38 days

Recently: every ~84 days

Total

32

Last Release

3156d ago

Major Versions

v1.1.3 → v2.2.22015-06-16

v2.3.0 → v3.0.02016-02-01

1.1.x-dev → v3.1.22016-10-26

v3.1.2 → v4.0.02017-05-27

3.1.x-dev → 4.1.02017-09-26

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.1PHP >=5.4.0

v3.1.0PHP >=5.5.9

v4.0.0PHP >=5.6.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/571279?v=4)[Chris Bautista](/maintainers/chrisbjr)[@chrisbjr](https://github.com/chrisbjr)

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Tags

jsonapilaravelrestapi keysapi authentication

###  Code Quality

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