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 17 Apr 18 Apr 19 Apr 20 Apr 21 Apr 22 Apr 23 Avg Growth
Clojars (Clojure) 31116 31117 31118 31119 31117 31117 31118 0/day
CPAN 45038 45038 45044 45047 45050 45051 45053 2/day
CPAN (search) 5/day
CRAN (R) 20711 20712 20734 20594 20593 20593 20616 -16/day
Crates.io (Rust) 143303 143464 143562 143638 143726 143819 143896 99/day
Crystal Shards 2/day
Drupal (php) 51557 51566 51572 51576 51580 51582 51591 6/day
DUB (dlang) 2451 2451 2451 2451 2452 2452 2452 0/day
Gopm (go) 22377 22377 22377 22377 22377 22377 22377 0/day
Hackage (Haskell) 17764 17766 17766 17767 17767 17769 17772 1/day
Hex.pm (Elixir/Erlang) 15902 15908 15917 15920 15926 15929 15939 6/day
Julia 0/day
LuaRocks (Lua) 4449 4450 4450 4454 4454 4454 4454 1/day
Maven Central (Java) 602978 603333 603488 603716 603771 603847 603925 158/day
MELPA (Emacs) 2/day
Nimble (Nim) 2346 2346 2346 2347 2347 2348 0/day
npm (node.js) 2825573 2827941 2832247 2839324 2843940 2845599 2845656 3347/day
nuget (.NET) 400683 400784 400909 401140 401206 401348 401471 131/day
Packagist (PHP) 396193 396264 396143 396204 396237 396314 396350 26/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 180468 180486 180498 180512 180463 180473 180482 2/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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