sindresorhus/npm-user

Get user info of an npm user

npm-user

Get user info of an npm user

Since npm has no API for this, we are forced to scrape the profile page.

Use the faster npm-email package if you only need the email.

Install

npm install npm-user

Usage

import npmUser from 'npm-user';

console.log(await npmUser('sindresorhus'));
/*
{
	name: 'Sindre Sorhus',
	avatar: 'https://www.npmjs.com/npm-avatar/…',
	email: '[email protected]',
	github: 'sindresorhus',
	twitter: 'sindresorhus'
}
*/

The values will be undefined if they're not set in the npm profile.

Related

• npm-user-cli - CLI for this module
• npm-email - Get the email of an npm user
• npm-keyword - Get a list of npm packages with a certain keyword
• package-json - Get the package.json of a package from the npm registry

npm-user's Issues

Only email and Avatar are available

I think npm made some changes on the UI, now we can't get the twitter, github, freenode and name. If there is no other way to get this information then the package might be deprecated.

[Question] Is it possible to get the number of packages?

I want a dynamic badge, which looks like this: but this is static one. Is there any public API for getting the user's packages count, so can I make the badge dynamic?

fix: class names have change for npm user name

This fails:

npm-user/index.js

Line 19 in 114d821

name: $sidebar.find('.black-50.mv2').text() || undefined,

as the classes probably changed and should be .eaac77a6.mv2

Name, github and twitter are returned null

It seems that there is no longer profile__sidebar class on the page

npm-user/index.js

Line 19 in db1ea6d

const $sidebar = $('[class^="profile__sidebar"]');

Upgrade npm-email to latest version to prevent Error

Issue

Running the package currently throws because the version of npm-email is ^3.2.1 which uses the now deprecated cnpmjs endpoint and not the more recent npms.io.

Error: User myUserName doesn't exist
    at npmEmail (/Users/path/to/node_modules/npm-email/index.js:25:10)

Solution

It will need update to 4.0.1 but since it is now ESM, do you want to upgrade this package to ESM as well (in which case no problem) or do you want to add a fix for this version too by using const { default: npmEmail } = await import('npm-email'); in the npmUser async function (which I can quickly PR)?