protractor
Webdriver E2E test wrapper for Angular.
Deprecated on npm. The maintainers' message: “We have news to share - Protractor is deprecated and will reach end-of-life by Summer 2023. To learn more and find out about other options please refer to this post on the Angular blog. Thank you…”
npm says
606,270
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 605K–606K
per week
best guess 606K
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
About 0% of npm's count looks like noise. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Most used major version: 7, the latest one, with 74% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 7.0.0.
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 protractor?
npm counted 606,270 downloads of protractor 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 605K–606K look like real installs. Noise is under 1% of npm's count. What remains still includes CI and installs as a dependency of other packages.
Is protractor still maintained?
No: the latest version is marked deprecated on npm, with the message “We have news to share - Protractor is deprecated and will reach end-of-life by Summer 2023. To learn more and find out about other options please refer to this post on the Angular blog. Thank you…”. The latest version, 7.0.0, came out on May 13, 2020. There were no stable releases in the last 12 months. It was first published on Feb 23, 2013. npm lists 2 maintainers.
Is protractor still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are about flat over 3 months and down 12% 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, 74% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 7, the latest one; the most used single version was 7.0.0, with 74%. Weekdays get 1.6× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 227 downloads a week, roughly 2 per version.
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.