node.js - Query npmjs registry via api

Question

I find I'm often unsatisfied with the ordering and expressiveness of searches on https://www.npmjs.com/. I guess there should be a way to programmatically query the server using https://api.npmjs.org/ or http://registry.npmjs.org/. But how? Where is the documentation?

(Or are there node packages to faciliate that? I know SO isn't about tool or package recommendations, so perhaps I shouldn't be asking about this as well, but if there were some tool, I could likely read the API from that as well.)

Answer 1

There is a really good npm query site https://npms.io which I am using for years on my web project. It is an open-source project and supports advanced search with a better quality of the results for the keywords.

They have a scoring system for each package using the collected information about the project. The final score is calculated based on four different aspects of Quality, Maintenance, Popularity, and Personalities.

It also has very neat REST API.
API Doc: https://api-docs.npms.io