Module Counts

  • Include
  • Clojars (Clojure)
  • CPAN
  • CPAN (search)
  • CRAN (R)
  • Crates.io (Rust)
  • Crystal Shards
  • Drupal (php)
  • DUB (dlang)
  • Gopm (go)
  • Hackage (Haskell)
  • Hex.pm (Elixir/Erlang)
  • Julia
  • LuaRocks (Lua)
  • Maven Central (Java)
  • MELPA (Emacs)
  • Nimble (Nim)
  • npm (node.js)
  • nuget (.NET)
  • Packagist (PHP)
  • Pear (PHP)
  • Perl 6 Ecosystem (perl 6)
  • PyPI
  • Rubygems.org
  • Vim Scripts
  • time period
  • all time
  • last year
  • last 90 days
  • last 30 days
  • last 7 days
Apr 14 Apr 15 Apr 16 Apr 17 Apr 18 Apr 19 Apr 20 Avg Growth
Clojars (Clojure) 31111 31114 31114 31116 31117 31118 31119 1/day
CPAN 45035 45035 45036 45038 45038 45044 45047 2/day
CPAN (search) 5/day
CRAN (R) 20680 20682 20696 20711 20712 20734 20594 -14/day
Crates.io (Rust) 143179 143264 143216 143303 143464 143562 143638 76/day
Crystal Shards 2/day
Drupal (php) 51543 51549 51554 51557 51566 51572 51576 5/day
DUB (dlang) 2451 2451 2451 2451 2451 0/day
Gopm (go) 22377 22377 22377 22377 22377 22377 22377 0/day
Hackage (Haskell) 17761 17762 17763 17764 17766 17766 17767 1/day
Hex.pm (Elixir/Erlang) 15880 15887 15894 15902 15908 15917 15920 7/day
Julia 0/day
LuaRocks (Lua) 4444 4445 4448 4449 4450 4450 4454 2/day
Maven Central (Java) 602488 602566 602851 602978 603333 603488 603716 181/day
MELPA (Emacs) 2/day
Nimble (Nim) 2346 2346 2346 2347 0/day
npm (node.js) 2820474 2821621 2822850 2825573 2827941 2832247 2839324 -1639/day
nuget (.NET) 400241 400355 400537 400683 400784 400909 401140 144/day
Packagist (PHP) 395966 396030 396082 396193 396264 396143 396204 40/day
Pear (PHP) 603 603 603 603 603 603 603 0/day
Perl 6 Ecosystem (perl 6) 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 0/day
PyPI 201/day
Rubygems.org 180435 180444 180454 180468 180486 180498 180512 12/day
Vim Scripts 0/day

Data is collected by scraping the relevant websites once a day via a cron job and then stored in a Postgresql database for later retrieval. Growth rates are calculated by averaging data over the last week. I'm gathering counts of separate modules, so multiple versions of the same module/package/gem only count once (foo-1.2, foo-1.3 and bar-1.0 would count as 2 total).

(Jun 23, 2019) Update Crates.io, Julia, and LuaRocks after site changes. Also upgrade LOTS of ruby gems and get off a deprecated Heroku stack.

(Jun 3, 2018) Update Drupal, DUB, and PyPI after their sites updated.

(Mar 4, 2018) Added Crystal Shards, as well as JSON endpoints /repositories and /repositories/:id/counts/:start/:finish as first steps towards revamping JS front end. (e.g. /repositories/1/counts/2018-02-01/2018-02-28)

(Sept 10, 2017) Update Crates.io for their new data URL and add Nimble, the Nim package manager. Many thanks to Alex Libman for pointing me to it.

I'd like to add more repositories. If you have suggestions, please send them to erik@debill.org.

CPAN and CPAN (search) used to be two conflicting sources for data about how many modules are in CPAN. During spring of 2011 CPAN got a site refresh and the numbers came into line with each other. It looks funny on the graph, but it's an interesting bit of history.

GoDoc is weird. It's not a true package repository in the same sense as all the others, but as far as I can tell it's the closest GoLang has. Be aware that it pretty drastically overcounts the number of packages. Don't use the raw numbers to compare with other languages. You can still watch the line to see changes in velocity, though.

If you'd like to check out the data in more detail, you are welcome to download it in a CSV file.

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