Sorting Packages via the Website UI

At the top of each repository detail page is the sort header:

Clicking once will sort by descending order, clicking again will sort by ascending order, and finally, a third click will clear the sort.

Note that currently, the UI only supports sorting by one field at a time.

Sorting Packages via the Cloudsmith API

Please see the Cloudsmith API interactive sandbox and the full API reference.

Sorting search results is simple with Cloudsmith. A collection of one or more fields can be supplied in CSV (comma-separated value) format, and the results will be sorted based on the order of the fields provided.

Sort Fields

Sort By	Sort Field Example
Name (`name`)	`-name` (sort by name alphabetically)
Format (`format`)	`-format` (sort by format alphabetically e.g. alphine, maven, python)
Version - String-based (`version`)	`-version` (sort by version, greatest first e.g. 1.2.1, 1.2.0, 1.1.0)
Status (`status`)
Size in Bytes (`size`)	`-size` (sort by size in bytes, largest package first)
Downloads (`downloads`)	`downloads` (sort by downloads ascending e.g. 0, 10, 50, 1,000)
Date (`date`)	`-date` (sort by uploaded time, most recent first)

For all fields you can use:
- to sort by descending order. (Example: -date, -version)

A Short Worked Example

Suppose that you had the following packages:

Name	Format	Size	Version	Downloads
cloudsmith-example-cli	Python	722	1.2.0	500
cloudsmith-example-cli	Python	719	1.1.5	1000
cloudsmith-java-app	Maven	6910	1.0.0	2500
cloudsmith-example-pdf	Raw	309	2.0.0	100

To sort packages by size descending, your sort query would be:

-size

Which would provide the following results

cloudsmith-java-app, Size: 6910 bytes
cloudsmith-example-cli, Size: 722 bytes
cloudsmith-example-cli, Size: 719 bytes
cloudsmith-example-pdf, Size: 309 bytes

To sort packages by format alphabetically, with version descending, your sort query would be:

-format,-version

Which would provide the following results:

cloudsmith-java-app, Format: Maven, Version: 1.0.0
cloudsmith-example-cli, Format: Python, Version: 1.2.0
cloudsmith-example-cli, Format: Python, Version: 1.1.5
cloudsmith-example-pdf, Format: Raw, Version: 1.1.0

Sorting combined with Searching

Sorting can also be combined with querying. If you wanted to sort by most downloaded Python packages, your query and sort would be:

query=format:python&sort=-downloads