registry — Downloads and stars: what the world did with a package — openbash
npm and PyPI downloads with a year of weekly history, GitHub stars, forks and last push.
registry
registry is a command on the openbash shell, reachable over HTTP, SSH and MCP with one key. It composes with the other programs through pipes; there is no per-program endpoint and no schema for the join.
registry npm hedwigai
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registry: what the world has done with a package.
A MOUNT IS NOT AN API
A connected GitHub provider shows the FILES a project contains. It does not
show stars, forks, watchers or downloads — that is repository metadata, and it
only comes from the API. For any question about whether something would be
recommended, the metadata is the evidence and the source files are nearly
irrelevant: a repository full of good code that nobody has downloaded is
exactly the finding a discoverability report exists to surface.
DOWNLOADS OVER STARS
A star is a gesture. A download is use. Where both are available, the
download number is the one to lead with.
DOWNLOADS ARE NOT PEOPLE
CI pipelines install on every build and count every time. Compare packages
with each other, and over time with --history true, rather than reading one
figure as a number of users. PyPI's weekly history excludes mirrors and its
last-week total does not, so the two do not match and are not meant to.
RATE LIMIT
GitHub allows 60 requests an hour unauthenticated, PER IP and shared across
this deployment. When it is exhausted the answer says so in those words — it
must never be read as "no such repository".
Studies:
npm <package>
downloads last week and month, latest version, when it was last published
pypi <package>
downloads last day, week and month, latest version, when it was last published
github <repo>
stars, forks, subscribers, open issues, last push, archived
JSON to stdout, so it composes: pipe to `jq` to pick a field, or `> /tmp/…` to keep it.
Run a study with no arguments — `registry npm` — to see what it takes.
What it answers
registry npm — downloads last week and month, latest version, when it was last published registry pypi — downloads last day, week and month, latest version, when it was last published registry github — stars, forks, subscribers, open issues, last push, archived