How did I get 111 npm downloads already?

Question

So 2 days ago I published my first npm package, a simple library to trim and join audio files

The weird thing is I already got 111 downloads somehow. I haven't shared this package with anyone. Neither have I documented anything. The README is literally blank. Could this be a mistake?

Answer 1

Npm’s download stats are naive by design: they are simply a count of the number of HTTP 200 responses NPM served that were tarball files, i.e. packages. This means the number includes:

• automated build servers
• downloads by mirrors
• robots that download every package for analysis

Full answere there: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/92574016600/numeric-precision-matters-how-npm-download-counts-work.html.

Answer 2

This is something which occurs pretty often when you upload packages to npm.

One week ago I also pushed a simple project to npm and it got 1.5k downloads in a week.

I do not think this means that 111 people have downloaded your package, but better be safe than sorry.

You should fill up the readme just to be safe.