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app npmcheater

Artificially bump the downloads of an npm package

2 unstable releases

0.3.12 Jan 13, 2024
0.3.11 Jan 13, 2024
0.2.2 Dec 1, 2023

#1942 in Command line utilities

Download history 64/week @ 2024-09-23

177 downloads per month

BSD-3-Clause

765KB
306 lines

npmcheater

Perfectly emulates npm and "installs" the specified packages to bump the download count.

NOTE: This project is for educational purposes only. Please do not abuse a benevolent service such as npmjs.

Installing

Install from Crates.io

Have Cargo Installed.

# have cargo installed
cargo install npmcheater

Build it yourself

Have Cargo Installed.

# have git installed
git clone https://github.com/DaBigBlob/npmcheater.git
cd npmcheater
#have cargo installed
cargo build --release
./target/release/npmcheater
# do whatever you will ^this binary

Usage

Usage: npmcheater [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -s, --silent                  No output
  -p, --packages <PACKAGES>     Packages to bump downloads of
  -m, --max-sleep-mili <DELAY>  Maximum delay between two fetches in miliseconds
  -h, --help                    Print help
  -V, --version                 Print version

Environment Variables:
  RUST_LOG                      Log level

Example

user@host ~# npmcheater -p libsql -p base64-js -p discord.js -m 5000 demo output

Dependencies

~7–27MB
~406K SLoC