npm-view(1)

1NPM-VIEW(1)                                                        NPM-VIEW(1)
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NAME

6       npm-view - View registry info
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SYNOPSIS

9         npm view [<@scope>/]<name>[@<version>] [<field>[.<subfield>]...]
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11         aliases: info, show, v
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DESCRIPTION

14       This  command  shows  data  about a package and prints it to the stream
15       referenced by the outfd config, which defaults to stdout.
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17       To show the package registry entry for the connect package, you can  do
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20         npm view connect
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22       The default version is "latest" if unspecified.
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24       Field  names  can be specified after the package descriptor.  For exam‐
25       ple, to show the dependencies of the ronn package at version 0.3.5, you
26       could do the following:
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28         npm view ronn@0.3.5 dependencies
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30       You  can  view  child fields by separating them with a period.  To view
31       the git repository URL for the latest version  of  npm,  you  could  do
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34         npm view npm repository.url
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36       This makes it easy to view information about a dependency with a bit of
37       shell scripting.  For example, to view all the data about  the  version
38       of opts that ronn depends on, you can do this:
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40         npm view opts@$(npm view ronn dependencies.opts)
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42       For  fields that are arrays, requesting a non-numeric field will return
43       all of the values from the objects in the list.  For  example,  to  get
44       all the contributor names for the "express" project, you can do this:
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46         npm view express contributors.email
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48       You  may  also  use  numeric  indices  in square braces to specifically
49       select an item in an array field.  To just get the email address of the
50       first contributor in the list, you can do this:
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52         npm view express contributors[0].email
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54       Multiple  fields  may  be  specified,  and  will  be  printed one after
55       another.  For example, to get  all  the  contributor  names  and  email
56       addresses, you can do this:
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58         npm view express contributors.name contributors.email
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60       "Person"  fields  are  shown  as  a string if they would be shown as an
61       object.  So, for example, this will show the list of  npm  contributors
62       in  the shortened string format.  (See npm help 5 package.json for more
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65         npm view npm contributors
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67       If a version range is provided, then data will  be  printed  for  every
68       matching version of the package.  This will show which version of jsdom
69       was required by each matching version of yui3:
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71         npm view yui3@'>0.5.4' dependencies.jsdom
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73       To show the connect package version history, you can do this:
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75         npm view connect versions
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OUTPUT

78       If only a single string field for a single version is output,  then  it
79       will  not  be colorized or quoted, so as to enable piping the output to
80       another command. If the field is an object, it  will  be  output  as  a
81       JavaScript object literal.
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83       If the --json flag is given, the outputted fields will be JSON.
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85       If the version range matches multiple versions, than each printed value
86       will be prefixed with the version it applies to.
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88       If multiple fields are requested, than each of them are  prefixed  with
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