Query npmjs registry via api

Question

I find I\'m often unsatisfied with the ordering and expressiveness of searches on https://www.npmjs.com/. I guess there should be a way to programmatically query the server

Answer 1

The docs are here now: https://github.com/npm/registry/blob/master/docs/download-counts.md

Downloads endpoint

Gets the total downloads for a given period, for all packages or a specific package.

GET https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/{period}[/{package}]

Examples

All packages, last day:

/downloads/point/last-day

All packages, specific date:

/downloads/point/2014-02-01

Package "express", last week:

/downloads/point/last-week/express

Package "express", given 7-day period:

/downloads/point/2014-02-01:2014-02-08/express

Package "@slack/client", last 30 days:

/downloads/point/last-month/@slack/client

Package "jquery", specific month:

/downloads/point/2014-01-01:2014-01-31/jquery