npx npmtotal --author=ljharb does not sort the output by package name, or by downloads descending or ascending. I'd expect it to be sorted by one or the other, with a command line option for the alternatives.

npx npmtotal ljharb truncates the array, presumably because you're using console.log.

I'd expect it to default to the last 24 hours; but it'd also be great to have an easy CLI option to select the last week, month, 3 months, 6 months, year, etc under, say, --duration=

Also, perhaps --start-date= and --end-date= which are mutually exclusive with --duration=.

I'd like to exclude private packages (scoped packages that are not public), ideally by default.

I'd also like to provide patterns like "browserify", for example, to exclude all the browserify packages that I have publish rights to but don't actually maintain.

In the same way that using printf causes the next prompt to not necessarily be after the output vs echo, whatever you're using to output causes my next prompt to appear in the middle of it, instead of after it.

Perhaps this is because you're not stopping the progress bar until after you've console.logged the results?

browserify is both a package and an org, and npx npmtotal browserify reports nothing - which seems strange.

npx npmtotal substack (which is both a package and a user) presumably presents a similar problem.