openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: METACRAN CranDB Badges Top Packages API description: CouchDB-backed REST API providing programmatic access to metadata for all CRAN R packages. Enables lookup of package information, version history, dependencies, and maintainer data in JSON format. version: 1.0.0 contact: name: METACRAN url: https://r-pkg.org license: name: MIT url: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT servers: - url: https://crandb.r-pkg.org description: METACRAN CranDB production server tags: - name: Top Packages description: Most-downloaded CRAN packages paths: /top/{period}/{count}: get: operationId: getTopPackages summary: Get Top Downloaded Packages description: Returns the most-downloaded CRAN packages for the specified time period. Count is limited to a maximum of 100. tags: - Top Packages parameters: - name: period in: path required: true description: Time period for ranking (last-day, last-week, last-month) schema: type: string enum: - last-day - last-week - last-month example: last-week - name: count in: path required: true description: Number of top packages to return (max 100) schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 100 example: 20 responses: '200': description: Top downloaded packages for the period content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TopPackages' components: schemas: TopPackages: type: object properties: start: type: string format: date description: Start date of the period example: '2024-01-22' end: type: string format: date description: End date of the period example: '2024-01-28' downloads: type: array description: Package download rankings items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PackageRanking' PackageRanking: type: object properties: package: type: string description: R package name example: Rcpp downloads: type: integer description: Download count for the period example: 853210