PkgTicker — Package Downloads Table

Per-day download counts for GitHub package pages and npm pages, in a table, on click.

PkgTicker turns the downloads chart on a package page into a per-day table you can actually read. Registries show a small sparkline of recent downloads but not the numbers behind it. You can see the shape of a package's activity and not the values, so "how many downloads did this get last Tuesday?" has no answer on the page. Click the PkgTicker toolbar icon on a supported page and a panel appears in the corner with one row per day: - the date and that day's download count - a small bar on each row, scaled to the busiest day, for at-a-glance comparison - the peak day of the period highlighted - a footer with the total, the daily average and the peak day Click the icon again to hide the panel. The close button, the Escape key, and navigating to another page also dismiss it. WHERE IT WORKS GitHub packages On a page such as github.com/OWNER/REPO/pkgs/TYPE/NAME the counts are read from the chart the page already draws, so nothing is fetched. npm On npmjs.com/package/NAME the counts come from npm's public downloads API, the same public data behind npm's own chart. Scoped names such as @scope/name work too. Reopening the panel within five minutes reuses the cached response. The panel follows GitHub's light and dark themes. PRIVACY PkgTicker collects nothing: no analytics, no account, no backend. - On GitHub pages nothing leaves your browser. - On npm pages a single request reads npm's public downloads data for the package whose page you are on. It carries the package name and nothing about you. The response is cached in the tab's own session storage and is gone when the tab closes. - The extension requests two permissions, activeTab and scripting, and no host permissions at all. It cannot read or change any page you have not clicked its icon on, and it does nothing until you click. NOTES - Download counts are inflated by CI and mirror traffic on every registry, so read the absolute numbers loosely. The day-to-day shape is the real signal. - On a page with nothing to tabulate the extension says so rather than showing an empty table. On pages it cannot read at all (chrome:// pages, the Web Store) it marks the toolbar icon instead. PkgTicker is free and open source under the MIT license. Source, issues and the full privacy policy: https://github.com/xiaohanyu/pkgticker