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Spider read npmjs.com in 2.3 s without a browser and returned 40 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "weekly-downloads", "Weekly downloads" and "npm i weekly-downloads".
npm tokens that bypass 2FA are being restricted — account changes (Aug 2026) and direct publishing (Jan 2027). Learn how to prepare →# weekly-downloads1.0.4 • Public • Published 7 years ago# Weekly downloadsYou can install this package by typing the following command in the command line :-### `npm i weekly-downloads`Then, you can require the package in your code like:-### `const weeklyDownloads = require("weekly-downloads")`So, what this package basically does is to console.log the number of weekly downloads of a npm package.For example , if you want to see the number of weekly downloads of express you call this package and pass the package name (in this case, express) as a parameterThe code for performing the above action :-### `weeklyDownloads("express")`# Thanks for showing your support by downloading the package . I hope you liked it!## Readme### Keywords## Package Sidebar### Install### Weekly Downloads### Version### License### Last publish### Collaborators**Analyze security** with Socket**Check bundle size****View package health****Explore dependencies**The same call, in code.
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import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=web+scraping");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=web+scraping");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const packages = [];
document.querySelectorAll("[class*='_package_']").forEach(el => {
const name = el.querySelector("h3 a")?.textContent?.trim();
const desc = el.querySelector("p")?.textContent?.trim();
const version = el.querySelector("[class*='_version']")?.textContent?.trim();
const downloads = el.querySelector("[class*='_downloads']")?.textContent?.trim();
if (name) packages.push({ name, desc, version, downloads });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: packages.length, packages: packages.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
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