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tijsverkoyen/akismet
====================

Akismet is a wrapper-class to communicate with the Akismet API.

1.1.1(9y ago)241.0M↓20.7%8[3 issues](https://github.com/tijsverkoyen/Akismet/issues)4BSDPHPPHP >=5.2.0

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Akismet class
=============

[](#akismet-class)

> Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

About
-----

[](#about)

PHP Akismet is a (wrapper)class to communicate with the [Akismet](http://akismet.com) API.

License
-------

[](#license)

PHP Akismet is [BSD](http://classes.verkoyen.eu/overview/bsd) licensed.

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

The class is well documented inline. If you use a decent IDE you'll see that each method is documented with PHPDoc. More documentation can be found on .

Sites using this class
----------------------

[](#sites-using-this-class)

- [classes.verkoyen.eu](http://classes.verkoyen.eu)
- [Each site based on Fork CMS](http://www.fork-cms.com)

###  Health Score

39

—

LowBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity47

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.3% 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 ~687 days

Total

3

Last Release

3590d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0afcdc0a47a32db64cc2e4c3b4cf59a5e283040d6e9f34284933394c24841f68?d=identicon)[tijsverkoyen](/maintainers/tijsverkoyen)

---

Top Contributors

[![tijsverkoyen](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/250042?v=4)](https://github.com/tijsverkoyen "tijsverkoyen (36 commits)")[![jordikroon](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2232811?v=4)](https://github.com/jordikroon "jordikroon (1 commits)")

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