npm-package-search

search npm with a local synchronized package list

example

var npmSearch = require('npm-package-search');
var search = npmSearch(__dirname + '/npm.json');
 
var query = process.argv.slice(2).join(' ');
search(query, function (err, packages) {
    packages.forEach(function (pkg) {
        console.log(pkg.name);
    });
});

The first time you run this example, it will take about as long as npm search currently takes but then searches are fast:

$ time node example/search.js git push http
glog
pushover
github-push-receive
pushover-f
pushhub

real    0m0.694s
user    0m0.636s
sys 0m0.068s

methods

var npmSearch = require('npm-package-search')

var search = npmSearch(file, opts={})

Return a function search(query, cb) that you can use to search file.

If opts.interval is set, synchronize the package list at file with the npm registry every opts.interval milliseconds.

If opts.filter is set, you can return a custom filter function to pass along to the underlying npm-package-sync library.

search(query, cb)

For a search string query, return matching packages in cb(err, results).

search.update(cb)

Synchronize with the npm registry. cb fires when the synchronization is complete.

search.close()

If opts.interval was specified, clear the update interval.

install

With npm do:

npm install npm-package-search

license

MIT