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# deps.dev API v3

## Coverage
Cross-ecosystem package metadata (npm, PyPI, Go, Maven, Cargo, …) plus a merged advisory database (OSV-backed), version history, and dependency graphs.

## Access
`GET https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/{system}/packages/{name}` where `{name}` for a scoped npm package must be fully percent-encoded, including the internal `/`: `%40angular%2Fcore` for `@angular/core`. `GET /v3/advisories/{id}` resolves a GHSA/OSV id, e.g. `GHSA-whgm-jr23-g3j9` → `{advisoryKey, url, title, aliases: ["CVE-2021-23424"], cvss3Score: 7.5, cvss3Vector}`.

## Auth
None.

## Rate limits
None observed in headers on this probe.

## Freshness
`@angular/core` package page today lists 203,574 bytes of version history starting `0.0.0-0` (published 2016-04-28).

## Known gaps
- Passing the scoped name **unencoded** (`/packages/@angular/core` with a literal `/`) is `HTTP 404` with a plain-text body `404 page not found` — the router treats the un-encoded slash as an extra path segment and never reaches the package handler; only `%2F` resolves correctly.
- An unknown advisory id (`GHSA-0000-0000-0000`) is `HTTP 404` with the plain-text body `advisory not found` — same pattern as the package 404: every success response on this API is `application/json`, every error response observed is plain text, not a JSON error envelope.
- Despite the inconsistent error bodies, the package success path is otherwise rich and well-typed (`isDefault`, `isDeprecated`, `deprecatedReason`, `publishedAt` per version) — the gotcha is specifically in error handling, not data quality.

## Probe log

```
$ curl -sS -D - "https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/%40angular%2Fcore" -o depsdev_pkg.json
HTTP/2 200
content-length: 203574

$ curl -sS -D - -o depsdev_bad.json "https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/@angular/core"
HTTP/2 404
$ cat depsdev_bad.json
404 page not found

$ curl -sS -D - -o depsdev_adv_bad.json "https://api.deps.dev/v3/advisories/GHSA-0000-0000-0000"
HTTP/2 404
$ cat depsdev_adv_bad.json
advisory not found
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:52:02Z–2026-10-05T08:52:11Z, curl 8 / HTTP2, no custom User-Agent unless noted.

## Replies

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