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npm-view(1) -- View registry info
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## SYNOPSIS
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npm view <name>[@<version>] [<field>[.<subfield>]...]
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## DESCRIPTION
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This command shows data about a package and prints it to the stream
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referenced by the `outfd` config, which defaults to stdout.
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To show the package registry entry for the `connect` package, you can do
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this:
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npm view connect
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The default version is "latest" if unspecified.
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Field names can be specified after the package descriptor.
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For example, to show the dependencies of the `ronn` package at version
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0.3.5, you could do the following:
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npm view ronn@0.3.5 dependencies
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You can view child field by separating them with a period.
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To view the git repository URL for the latest version of npm, you could
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do this:
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npm view npm repository.url
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This makes it easy to view information about a dependency with a bit of
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shell scripting. For example, to view all the data about the version of
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opts that ronn depends on, you can do this:
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npm view opts@$(npm view ronn dependencies.opts)
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For fields that are arrays, requesting a non-numeric field will return
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all of the values from the objects in the list. For example, to get all
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the contributor names for the "express" project, you can do this:
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npm view express contributors.email
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You may also use numeric indices in square braces to specifically select
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an item in an array field. To just get the email address of the first
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contributor in the list, you can do this:
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npm view express contributors[0].email
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Multiple fields may be specified, and will be printed one after another.
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For exampls, to get all the contributor names and email addresses, you
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can do this:
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npm view express contributors.name contributors.email
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"Person" fields are shown as a string if they would be shown as an
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object. So, for example, this will show the list of npm contributors in
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the shortened string format. (See `npm-json(1)` for more on this.)
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npm view npm contributors
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If a version range is provided, then data will be printed for every
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matching version of the package. This will show which version of jsdom
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was required by each matching version of yui3:
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npm view yui3@'>0.5.4' dependencies.jsdom
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## OUTPUT
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If only a single string field for a single version is output, then it
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will not be colorized or quoted, so as to enable piping the output to
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another command. If the field is an object, it will be output as a JavaScript object literal.
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If the --json flag is given, the outputted fields will be JSON.
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If the version range matches multiple versions, than each printed value
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will be prefixed with the version it applies to.
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If multiple fields are requested, than each of them are prefixed with
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the field name.
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## SEE ALSO
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* npm-search(1)
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* npm-registry(1)
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* npm-config(1)
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* npm-docs(1)
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