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deviantintegral/drupal-update-client
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A client for updates.drupal.org

0.1.1(6y ago)04[1 issues](https://github.com/deviantintegral/drupal-update-client/issues)GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPPHP ^7.2

Since Jul 19Pushed 6y agoCompare

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Drupal Update Client
====================

[](#drupal-update-client)

Bootstrapping a new Drupal environment for CI workflows is somewhat in flux right now. Drush no longer supports downloading projects, instead recommending a composer-based workflow. Drupal core does not have reusable code for interacting with `updates.drupal.org`'s API as it's all coupled to `update.module`.

I wanted something to let me quickly download any release from drupal.org, as well as a real-world opportunity to learn what the state of XML deserializers in PHP was. If Drupal doesn't go to a full-composer workflow, perhaps this library will be useful to modernize the Update module.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- PHARs available on the [releases page](https://github.com/deviantintegral/drupal-update-client/releases)
- A strongly-typed set of classes representing Projects, Releases, and Files.
- Serialization and deserialization of Projects from XML retreived from drupal.org.
- An example of using the JMS Serializer library.
    - This originally used Symfony's Serializer component, but it lacks support for XML namespaces and generally seems to better support JSON.
- A console command to download and extract projects.

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity45

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

2495d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![deviantintegral](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/255023?v=4)](https://github.com/deviantintegral "deviantintegral (32 commits)")

###  Code Quality

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