commander
the complete solution for node.js command-line programs
npm says
728,849,738 / week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
probably humans
≈ 728,791,451–728,849,738 / week
best guess 728,845,445 high confidence
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 3, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people actually use commander?
npm counted 728,849,738 downloads of commander in the last 7 days. That count includes every tarball fetch: registry mirrors, security scanners, CI pipelines and crawlers as well as people. humanloads estimates that about 728,845,445 of them (likely range 728,791,451–728,849,738) were real human installs, with high confidence. That puts less than 1% of npm's weekly count down to robots.
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 an honest confidence level.