npm Download Counts API

Base URL

https://api.npmjs.org/downloads

Authentication

No API key required.

Rate limit

No published hard limit; the endpoint is heavily cached.

Pricing

Free.

CORS

Enabled — callable directly from browser JavaScript

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 20 Aug 2026, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/react'

const res = await fetch("https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/react");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/react", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "downloads": 143700450,
  "start": "2026-08-12",
  "end": "2026-08-18",
  "package": "react"
}

downloadsinteger|array

Total for point queries, or an array of per-day objects for range queries.

start / endstring

The date range covered.

packagestring

Package name.

(range) downloads[].daystring

Date of that day's count.

(range) downloads[].downloadsinteger

Downloads on that day.

• Show download counts as a popularity signal in documentation
• Compare adoption between competing libraries
• Chart a package's growth over time
• Build package comparison or discovery tooling

If npm Download Counts does not fit, these developer & testing apis cover similar ground. Every one was called before publishing, and each links to its own reference page with a working curl command and the response it returned.