readdirp
Recursive version of fs.readdir with small RAM & CPU footprint
npm says
270,690,995
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 271M
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, not the latest one, with 41% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 3.6.0.
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 readdirp?
npm counted 270,690,995 downloads of readdirp 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 271M look like real installs. At this scale most of them come from CI, builds and other packages that depend on readdirp, so the number of people behind them is far smaller.
Is readdirp still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 5.1.1, came out on Aug 6, 2026. The last 12 months saw 2 stable releases. It was first published on Jul 18, 2012. npm lists 2 maintainers.
Is readdirp still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 30% over 3 months and up 175% 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 ahead of that. Last week, 41% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 3, not the latest one; the most used single version was 3.6.0, with 40%. Weekdays get 1.5× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 643 downloads a week, roughly 13 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.