# cows

> ASCII cows 🐮

Latest version **3.0.1** (published 2024-07-26) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install cows
pnpm add cows
yarn add cows
bun add cows
```

## Health

**Score 20/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: esm support; no vulnerabilities.

Warnings: low downloads; no types.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.0.1 |
| Published | 2024-07-26 |
| First published | 2016-02-16 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | ESM |
| Node | >=18 |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Unpacked size | 112.7 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 431 |
| Author | Sindre Sorhus |
| Maintainers | sindresorhus |
| Keywords | cows, cow, ascii |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cows
- Repository: https://github.com/sindresorhus/cows
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/cows#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/sindresorhus/cows/issues
- Funding: https://github.com/sponsors/sindresorhus
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/cows

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## Recent versions

- 3.0.1 (latest) — 2024-07-26
- 3.0.0 — 2024-04-30
- 2.1.1 — 2021-02-11
- 2.1.0 — 2018-10-13
- 2.0.0 — 2018-05-06
- 1.1.0 — 2016-04-20
- 1.0.0 — 2016-04-01
- 0.2.3 — 2016-02-23
- 0.2.2 — 2016-02-19
- 0.2.1 — 2016-02-17
- 0.2.0 — 2016-02-17
- 0.1.0 — 2016-02-16

## README

# cows

> 400+ ASCII 🐮s

The list is just a [text file](cows.txt) and can be used wherever.

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/170270/13090998/a9cdd6b0-d52b-11e5-83ec-614143c9a3bb.png)

## Examples

```
         (__)
         (oo)
  /-------\/
 / |     ||
+  ||----||
   ^^    ^^
     Cow


       \(:)/
       (o|o)
  /-----\_/
 /|      |
^ ||----||
  ^^    ^^
 Klingon Cow


                 ________________
         ^__^   /                \
         (oo)  ( Milk is logical. )
  /-------\/ --'\________________/
 / |     ||
*  ||W---||
   ^^    ^^
Mr Spock's cow


      (__)
    /   oo      ______
   |  /\_|     |      \
   |  |___     |       |
   |   ---@    |_______|
*  |  |   ----   |    |
 \ |  |_____
  \|________|
        CompuCow


        ___________________________
       | (__)  (__)  (__)   (__)  |
       | ( oo  ( oo  ( oo   ( oo  |
_______| /\_|  /\_|  /\_|   /\_|  |________
|                                         |
|   _____                        _____    |
|___|   |________________________|   |____|
    |___|                        |___|
              Cow-pooling


  /--------------------/
 / |     ||           /          (__)
*  ||----||          /-----------(oo)
   ^^    ^^                       \/
        Network Virtual Cow
(with separate frontend and backend)


         (__)               (__)  |    |  (__)
         (--)               (--)  |    |  (--)
  /-------\/   /o    /-------\/   |    I   \/-------\
 / |  M  |----< o   / |  L  |----<T    I>----|  D  | \
*  ||----|   /  o  *  ||----|     I    I     |----||  *
   ^^    ^      |     ^^    ^          |     ^    ^^
                |                      |
              Teenage Mutant Ninja Cows

                                  @
               (__)    (__) _____/
            /| (oo) _  (oo)/----/_____    *
  _o\______/_|\_\/_/_|__\/|____|//////== *- *  * -
 /_________   \   00 |   00 |       /== -* * -
[_____/^^\_____\_____|_____/^^\_____]     *- * -
      \__/                 \__/
               Cow-mobile
```

## Install

```sh
npm install cows
```

## Usage

```js
import cows from 'cows';

cows();
```

## API

### cows()

Returns an array of cows.

## Related

- [vaca](https://github.com/sindresorhus/vaca) - Get a random ASCII cow 🐮

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