Name: npm-package-stats
Price: 0.003 USDC
Availability: InStock

$ man npm-package-stats

agentutility / web-probe / npm-package-stats

PRICE / CALL

$0.003

USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact

METHOD

POST

CLUSTER

webprobe

CATEGORY

uncategorized

STATUS

● live

NAME

npm-package-stats — fetches the public npm registry record for a package and returns description, license, repository, latest version, total version count, r…

SYNOPSIS

POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/npm-package-stats
     Content-Type: application/json
     X-PAYMENT:    <signed-transferWithAuthorization>

     { ... }

↳ first call → 402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.

DESCRIPTION

Fetches the public npm registry record for a package and returns description, license, repository, latest version, total version count, recent versions with publish timestamps and deprecation flags, age in days, days since last release, maintainer count + list, and downloads for the last day, week, month, year. The npm registry numbers behind package-risk-npm, just the metrics without the risk write-up. Public npm registry (registry.npmjs.org + api.npmjs.org), commercial use permitted under the npm Public Registry Open Source Terms. Use it for npm package stats, npm registry lookup, npm downloads, package release history, or package metadata.

INPUT — request schema

property	type	description	req?
package	string	npm package name. Supports scoped names ('@types/node', '@vercel/next').	required
recent_versions	number	How many most-recent version entries to include. 1-20. Default 5.	optional

OUTPUT — response shape

field	type	description
package	string	Echo of the requested package name.
name	string	Canonical package name as recorded in the npm registry document.
description	string	Package description string from the registry document. null if unset.
license	string	License identifier (e.g. 'MIT') extracted from the registry document. null if unset.
homepage	string	Homepage URL from the registry document. null if unset.
repository	string	Repository URL from the registry document. null if unset.
keywords	array	Package keywords array from the registry document.
latest_version	string	Current 'latest' dist-tag from the registry.
total_versions	number	Total number of versions ever published with timestamps in the registry.
recent_versions	array	Most-recent N versions, each with version string, published ISO timestamp, and deprecated boolean.
first_published	string	ISO timestamp of the earliest version publish. Useful for age math.
last_published	string	ISO timestamp of the most recent version publish.
age_days	number	Days since the first publish.
days_since_last_release	number	Days since the most recent publish — staleness signal.
maintainer_count	number	Count of registered maintainers on the package.
maintainers	array	First 10 maintainer usernames.
downloads	object	Object with last_day, last_week, last_month, last_year integer download counts from api.npmjs.org. Individual fields may be null if the registry returned an error for that window.

EXAMPLES — two ways to call

EXAMPLE 1 · curl

curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/npm-package-stats \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ }'

first response = 402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.

EXAMPLE 2 · mcp

# Install the MCP package for this endpoint's cluster
npx -y @agentutility/mcp-<cluster>

# Required: EVM private key with USDC on Base
export X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x...

# Then call the npm-package-stats tool from your MCP-aware agent.

MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.

METADATA

tags: web-probenpmpackage-statsdownloadsregistrydependency
methods: POST
cluster: webprobe
price: $0.003 USDC per call

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