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composer/metadata-minifier
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Small utility library that handles metadata minification and expansion.

1.0.0(5y ago)181115.0M—5.4%410MITPHPPHP ^5.3.2 || ^7.0 || ^8.0CI passing

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composer/metadata-minifier
==========================

[](#composermetadata-minifier)

Small utility library that handles metadata minification and expansion.

This is used by [Composer](https://github.com/composer/composer)'s 2.x repository metadata protocol.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Install the latest version with:

```
composer require composer/metadata-minifier
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.3.2 is required but using the latest version of PHP is highly recommended.

Basic usage
-----------

[](#basic-usage)

### `Composer\MetadataMinifier\MetadataMinifier`

[](#composermetadataminifiermetadataminifier)

- `MetadataMinifier::expand()`: Expands an array of minified versions back to their original format
- `MetadataMinifier::minify()`: Minifies an array of versions into a set of version diffs

For example to expand the dev versions (note the ~dev in the URL) of Monolog you would do:

```
$packageName = 'monolog/monolog';
$url = 'https://repo.packagist.org/p2/' . $packageName . '~dev.json';
$json = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true);
$versions = \Composer\MetadataMinifier\MetadataMinifier::expand($json['packages'][$packageName]);
```

License
-------

[](#license)

composer/metadata-minifier is licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file for details.

###  Health Score

54

—

FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance51

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity68

Solid adoption and visibility

Community24

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 63.2% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1867d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b69782e1d7f426ef78f61d159c466a536372eff931f13981ac578fa3f4649352?d=identicon)[Seldaek](/maintainers/Seldaek)

---

Top Contributors

[![Seldaek](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/183678?v=4)](https://github.com/Seldaek "Seldaek (12 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (5 commits)")[![Chris8934](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44963939?v=4)](https://github.com/Chris8934 "Chris8934 (1 commits)")[![tacman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/619585?v=4)](https://github.com/tacman "tacman (1 commits)")

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Tags

composercompression

###  Code Quality

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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