Badge request: The total number of downloads of npm packages published by the specified user

[dukeluo]

📋 Description

This badge would show the total number of downloads of npm packages published by the specified user.

🔗 Data

• https://npm-stat.com/api/download-counts?author=dukeluo&from=2022-12-02&until=2023-12-02

This API can provide download data of all npm packages for a specified user and does not require an API key.

🎤 Motivation

NPM authors could put this badge on their profile.

I have already created an endpoint for it at https://github.com/dukeluo/github-readme-stats-badges. I believe that if the Shields.io can support this endpoint directly, it will be beneficial to more people. I would be willing to submit a PR if you also agree with this idea.

[chris48s]

Sounds reasonable.

Couple of minor points on this one:

1. https://npm-stat.com/ says

   These statistics are not provided in real-time. All numbers will change at most once per day.

   so we can serve these with quite a long cache - similar to how we do with pypistats and pepy

2. I think the "service" for this should be npm-stat, rather than a NPM. Similar to how we treat the npms.io badges.

[dukeluo]

@chris48s Got it, thanks for pointing that out.