CLI for listing an npm module's dependent projects and their download stats.

You might also be interested in module-dependents.

Install globally with npm

$ npm install --global dependents-cli

Once installed globally, there will be a dependents command that can be run from the command line.

To see all the dependents for a module, specify the module name after the dependents command like this:

$ dependents base

This will output a JavaScript array containing each dependent as an object with name and dependency version properties. The dependency version property key will be the specified module name with -version after it. So base-version for the command specified above.

Example output from running $ dependents base:

Use the --format option to format the results as a table (this is the default).

Run the following command to the dependents formatted as a table:

$ dependents base --format

You can also include the download counts when using formatting:

$ dependents base --downloads --format

If you need to use the results as a JSON object, use the --format command with json after it:

$ dependents base --format json

[
  { "name": "base-app", "base-version": "^0.11.1" },
  { "name": "base-reporter", "base-version": "^0.11.0" },
  { "name": "benchmarked", "base-version": "^0.8.1" },
  { "name": "boilerplate", "base-version": "^0.11.1" },
  { "name": "expand-files", "base-version": "^0.11.1" },
  { "name": "expand-target", "base-version": "^0.11.1" },
  { "name": "npm-api", "base-version": "^0.8.1" },
  { "name": "saffronapp", "base-version": "file:packages/base" },
  { "name": "scaffold", "base-version": "^0.11.1" },
  { "name": "templates", "base-version": "^0.11.1" },
  { "name": "verbiage", "base-version": "^0.8.1" },
  { "name": "vinyl-collection", "base-version": "^0.11.0" },
  { "name": "vinyl-item", "base-version": "^0.8.1" }
]

This can be output to a json file using the bash > character:

$ dependents base --format json > base-dependents.json

Use this with the --downloads option to be able to use the json data and do your own sorting and filtering if necessary.

$ dependents base --format json --downloads > base-dependents.json

To include the download counts of each of the dependents, use the --downloads option. This will add a downloads object to each dependent with the total and last30 (last 30 days) download counts:

$ dependents base --downloads --format json

[
  { "name": "templates", "base-version": "^0.11.1", "downloads": { "total": 124383, "last30": 14517 } },
  { "name": "benchmarked", "base-version": "^0.8.1", "downloads": { "total": 528830, "last30": 5301 } },
  { "name": "vinyl-item", "base-version": "^0.8.1", "downloads": { "total": 6045, "last30": 5019 } },
  { "name": "expand-target", "base-version": "^0.11.1", "downloads": { "total": 4341, "last30": 577 } },
  { "name": "scaffold", "base-version": "^0.11.1", "downloads": { "total": 4212, "last30": 532 } },
  { "name": "boilerplate", "base-version": "^0.11.1", "downloads": { "total": 8845, "last30": 478 } },
  { "name": "base-app", "base-version": "^0.11.1", "downloads": { "total": 1091, "last30": 471 } },
  { "name": "expand-files", "base-version": "^0.11.1", "downloads": { "total": 7235, "last30": 399 } },
  { "name": "npm-api", "base-version": "^0.8.1", "downloads": { "total": 629, "last30": 52 } },
  { "name": "base-reporter", "base-version": "^0.11.0", "downloads": { "total": 103, "last30": 16 } },
  { "name": "vinyl-collection", "base-version": "^0.11.0", "downloads": { "total": 101, "last30": 15 } },
  { "name": "verbiage", "base-version": "^0.8.1", "downloads": { "total": 77, "last30": 7 } },
  { "name": "saffronapp", "base-version": "file:packages/base", "downloads": { "total": 112, "last30": 5 } }
]

When using the --downloads option, the list is sorted by the downloads.last30 property so the most used dependents will be found at the top.

• download-stats: Get and calculate npm download stats for npm modules. | homepage
• module-dependents: Retrieve list of dependents for an npm module. | homepage
• npm-api-dependents: npm-api plugin for getting module dependents. | homepage
• npm-api: Base class for retrieving data from the npm registry. | homepage

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