Show combined download counts for multiple packages?

[FezVrasta]

❓ Question

Hi, is there any way to have a badge to display the combined downloads count of multiple npm packages? We changed package name and we'd like to show the total downloads rather than having two different badges (or worse, just one)

[paulmelnikow]

Hi! Thanks for the question. Something similar was requested for NuGet a few years back in #204 and our suggested workaround is to use the Endpoint badge, which is a way you can write your own badge data fetching logic, emit JSON, and then use Shields for formatting, rendering, and caching. It's hard to bound the number of requests or request time for a badge like this, so I think the Endpoint badge is probably a good way to accomplish this.

[FezVrasta]

I see, I'll try with the RunKit + Endpoint badge solution then, thanks!

[FezVrasta]

For anyone interested, I published an endpoint here:

https://runkit.io/fezvrasta/combined-npm-downloads/1.0.0

You can use it as follows:

https://img.shields.io/endpoint?style=for-the-badge&url=https://runkit.io/fezvrasta/combined-npm-downloads/1.0.0?packages=popper.js,@popperjs/core

Docs:

https://runkit.io/fezvrasta/combined-npm-downloads/1.0.0?packages=<pkg1>,<pkg2>,<pkg3>&period=<period>

• packages is a comma separated list of npm packages;
• period is last-week, last-month, last-day, and all the other standard npm periods;

[thetarnav]

@FezVrasta
I just dug this thread up, and your solution seems to work the best.
But is seems to be a little bit broke currently. Adding &period=last-week at the end of the URL changes the download amount but the caption remains the same — "123K/MONTH".
Would you mind sharing the runkit source code, or correcting the message text?

[FezVrasta]

https://runkit.com/FezVrasta/combined-npm-downloads

[thetarnav]

Thank you :)
This is my take on it then: https://runkit.com/thetarnav/combined-weekly-npm-downloads
And one deployed on deno: https://dash.deno.com/playground/combined-npm-downloads