npm latest package update time

[nicfv]

📋 Description

It would be great to show the latest updated date for an npm package, sort of like the static relative date badge:

A required badge query parameter would be the package name. Possibly an optional query parameter could be the package version, but should default to the latest version.

🔗 Data

npm v {package} time.modified

E.g.:

$ npm v smath time.modified
2024-03-10T22:40:54.837Z

🎤 Motivation

It would be great to show how recently my package has been updated, to show that it is still being maintained.

[chris48s]

This does appear to be exposed via the NPM API
If we call something like https://registry.npmjs.org/express/ there is a key called time which is a map of version number to timestamp. We could look up the latest version in that.

[nicfv]

If we call something like https://registry.npmjs.org/express/ there is a key called time which is a map of version number to timestamp.

I didn't know about this api! Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to (hopefully) a new badge soon!

[saloni0419]

Can you please assign this issue to me

[nicfv]

@saloni0419 It doesn't look like I have permission to assign issues, but go for it, if you're interested working on it! Looks like PR #10083 hasn't been touched in over 3 weeks, so not sure if anything will happen there.

[aniruddhparwal]

Hi @chris48s
It seems like no one has been working on this for a long time. If fine I would like to pick this up.

[chris48s]

Sure. It looks like there is a WIP PR open that was never finished at #10083 that might make a good starting point

[chris48s]

This was added in #10641