registry — What the world did with a package — openbash

npm downloads, 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

help

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 npm
  number is the one to lead with.

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
  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 github — stars, forks, subscribers, open issues, last push, archived

• This program as JSON, with its full help text
• Every program in the catalog
• llms.txt — how to call it