Get versions from npm registry api

Question

I'm looking for a way to query npm package versions from the npm registry api. All I found until now is that I need to query the whole package metadata and filter the versions from there, Example: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-chuck/

It's ok for package with small amount of versions but for large amount of versions it's just too much time to query.

I thought that maybe there is something like the dist-tags api that query only the dist-tags, Example: https://registry.npmjs.org/-/package/react-chuck/dist-tags , the dist-tags are in the same scope as versions...

I don't mind to do it cli also npm view react-chuck versions but this returns array as a string and array of strings.

I looked at those two links:

• https://github.com/npm/npm-registry-client
• https://github.com/npm/registry/blob/master/docs/REGISTRY-API.md

Anyone has a tip of champs maybe?

Answer 1

npm show react-chunk time --json