About Open Source Insights

Open Source Insights is a service developed and hosted by Google to help developers better understand the structure, construction, and security of open source software packages. The service examines each package, constructs a full, detailed graph of its dependencies and their properties, and makes the results available to anyone who could benefit from them. The goal is to provide developers with a picture of how their software is put together, how that changes as dependencies change, and what the consequences might be.

The service scans millions of open source packages, builds their dependency graphs, and annotates them with information about ownership, licenses, popularity, and other metadata. It updates the data regularly to keep the information up to date and relevant, while allowing developers to look back and see how things have changed over time.

See our documentation for more information.