@beskar-labs/npm-feed v2.0.3

NPM Feed

A handy HTML to JSON parser for NPM.

Installation

yarn add @beskar-labs/npm-feed

Usage

The module exports a single function that takes an NPM username (without the @) and optionally, a boolean that determines whether to filter for packages namespaced under the @scope of the username.

import getNpmFeed from '@beskar-labs/npm-feed';

/* Example of fetching all packages */
const feed1 = await getNpmFeed('haydenbleasel');

/* Example of fetching namespaced packages only */
const feed2 = await getNpmFeed('haydenbleasel', true);

How it works

On NPM profile pages, packages are available in JSON format in the HTML, in fact they're loaded into a window.__context__ variable. After fetching the page we use node-html-parser to parse the DOM, find the script tag that contains the data we want and return it in JSON.

Contributing

If you have suggestions for how this module could be improved, or want to report a bug, open an issue! I'd love all and any contributions.