Module Counts

  • Include
  • Bower (JS)
  • Clojars (Clojure)
  • CPAN
  • CPAN (search)
  • CRAN (R)
  • Crates.io (Rust)
  • Drupal (php)
  • DUB (dlang)
  • GoDoc (Go)
  • Hackage (Haskell)
  • Hex.pm (Elixir/Erlang)
  • LuaRocks (Lua)
  • Maven Central (Java)
  • MELPA (Emacs)
  • npm (node.js)
  • nuget (.NET)
  • Packagist (PHP)
  • Pear (PHP)
  • Perl 6 Ecosystem (perl 6)
  • PyPI
  • Rubygems.org
  • time period
  • all time
  • last year
  • last 90 days
  • last 30 days
  • last 7 days
Jan 12 Jan 13 Jan 14 Jan 15 Jan 16 Jan 17 Jan 18 Avg Growth
Bower (JS) 37/day
Clojars (Clojure) 17918 17928 17931 17936 17939 17946 17958 7/day
CPAN 34789 34799 34808 34814 34816 34822 34829 7/day
CPAN (search) 34790 34800 34808 34813 34817 34822 34828 6/day
CRAN (R) 9887 9896 9908 9915 9922 9926 9937 8/day
Crates.io (Rust) 7548 7556 7573 7599 7610 7619 7632 14/day
Drupal (php) 36348 36358 36365 36366 36369 36384 36404 9/day
DUB (dlang) 922 924 924 924 925 925 925 0/day
GoDoc (Go) 23/day
Hackage (Haskell) 10747 10755 10759 10764 10778 10781 10785 6/day
Hex.pm (Elixir/Erlang) 3430 3438 3445 3448 3455 3459 3466 6/day
LuaRocks (Lua) 1336 1342 1344 1346 1346 1346 1346 2/day
Maven Central (Java) 173008 173124 173196 173183 173241 173374 173479 78/day
MELPA (Emacs) 3464 3466 3467 3467 3468 3470 3470 1/day
npm (node.js) 379216 379755 380156 380472 380872 381388 381958 457/day
nuget (.NET) 70743 70797 70844 70904 70929 71032 71151 68/day
Packagist (PHP) 123767 123914 124015 124084 124201 124344 124496 121/day
Pear (PHP) 602 602 602 602 602 602 602 0/day
Perl 6 Ecosystem (perl 6) 766 766 766 769 770 772 771 1/day
PyPI 96461 96529 96598 96642 96687 96768 96840 63/day
Rubygems.org 127766 127800 127831 127853 127894 127946 127984 36/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).

(May 30, 2016) Much thanks to Hiroki Noda for adding DUB (dlang). Fixed Hex.pm sampling, and removed link to CSV download until I can re-engineer it.

(Apr 8, 2016) Updates to Rubygems.org and Npmjs.org broke both of those samplers.

I'd like to add more repositories. If you have suggestions, please send them to [email protected].

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.

I used to support downloading the full database in CSV format, but the database has outgrown that (even with offline CSV generation).

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