Search NPM Packages Programmatically with Download Stats and Version History

The Problem with NPM Package Discovery If you've ever tried to compare NPM packages programmatically — maybe for a dependency audit tool, a tech radar dashboard, or a CLI that recommends libraries — you know the pain. The official NPM registry API is sprawling and underdocumented. Scraping npmjs.com is fragile. All you really want is a clean search endpoint that returns package metadata, download counts, and version info in one shot. That's exactly what the NPM Package Search API does. What It Does This API lets you search NPM packages by keyword and returns structured results including: Package name, description, and author Weekly and monthly download statistics Latest version and publish date Repository and homepage links One endpoint. One query parameter. Clean JSON back. Quick Start with fetch() Here's how to search for packages related to "react" in a few lines of JavaScript: const response = await fetch ( " https://udemy-course-search-production.up.railway.app/api/search?query=re