Source & counts

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/ctan-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/ctan-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/ctan-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/ctan-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "TeX/LaTeX packages from CTAN. /v1/package = live detail (caption, description, version, license, resolved authors, topics, MiKTeX/TeX Live availability); /v1/search = search the bundled index by name and caption; /v1/author = resolve a CTAN author id to a name.",
        "source": "CTAN — the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (the TeX / LaTeX package registry)",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/package",
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/author",
            "/v1/meta"
        ],
        "total_authors": 3152,
        "total_packages": 6969
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T13:03:59.470Z",
        "request_id": "f0b2e68c-3da0-49f0-a60a-a97f05d80ef8"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}