anymatch
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npm says
143,778,676
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 144M
per week
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
noise under 1% of npm's count, so nearly all of it counts. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Most used major version: 3, the latest one, with 92% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 3.1.3.
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 6, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people use anymatch?
npm counted 143,778,676 downloads of anymatch in the last 7 days. Nobody can count people exactly, npm included: it does not record who downloaded what. After removing mirror spikes and crawlers, about 144M look like real installs. At this scale most of them come from CI, builds and other packages that depend on anymatch, so the number of people behind them is far smaller.
Is anymatch still maintained?
Probably not actively: there has been no release in over a year, though that can also mean it is simply finished. The latest version, 3.1.3, came out on Nov 21, 2022. There were no stable releases in the last 12 months. It was first published on Nov 25, 2013. npm lists 4 maintainers.
Is anymatch still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 17% over 3 months and up 86% over 11 months. For scale, the median of the 269 packages we track, which lean towards today's most downloaded, is up 157% over 11 months, so this one is behind that. Last week, 92% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 3, the latest one; the most used single version was 3.1.3, with 86%. Weekdays get 1.5× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 301 downloads a week, roughly 17 per version.
Where do the downloads of anymatch come from?
Probably mostly through other packages. Each package below requires the one above it, and their weekly downloads on the matching versions line up within about 30%. This is an inference from download counts, not something npm records.
Past chokidar the trail splits or we can't follow it. These are still real installs, but the people running them may never have chosen anymatch. How a package ends up like this.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with a confidence level. It still includes CI and dependency installs, so it is not a count of people.