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petyots/api-guard
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A simple way of authenticating your APIs with API keys using Laravel. Forked from chrisbjr/api-guard And Working with L5.3.\*

v3.1.2(9y ago)31.2kPHP &gt;=5.5.9

Since Jun 15Compare

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###  Health Score

31

LowBetter than 71% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

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 ~33 days

Recently: every ~64 days

Total

27

Last Release

3440d ago

Major Versions

v0.7 → v1.02015-03-27

v1.0 → v2.0.02015-03-27

v1.1 → v2.2.12015-05-03

v1.1.3 → v2.2.22015-06-16

v2.3.0 → v3.0.02016-02-01

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.1PHP &gt;=5.4.0

v3.1.0PHP &gt;=5.5.9

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

jsonapilaravelrestapi keysapi authentication

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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