How to find search/find npm packages

Question

What ways are there to find npm packages?

Below is community maintained listing compiled from the answers below.

NPM Specific

• In console, npm search <keyword>
• https://www.npmjs.org/
• http://eirikb.github.com/nipster/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/10571033
• http://node-modules.com/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/13593402
• https://nodejsmodules.org/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/17821476
• http://npmsearch.com/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/34471018

Generic

• http://github.com
• https://libraries.io

Dead

• http://browsenpm.org/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/24338500
• https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules
• http://toolbox.no.de/ aka http://nodetoolbox.com/
• http://packagefinder1-enome.dotcloud.com/

Answer 1

https://npms.io is really nice, provides quality and maintenance stats too

Answer 2

npm search works pretty well:

npm search connect

npm view will show you the timestamp of each version and everthing else from package.json (including node version)

npm view connect

Answer 3

Libraries.io is great for searching and filtering through NPM modules, you can also filter by license and keyword: https://libraries.io/search?platforms=NPM

Answer 4

For a fast method available in your console, type:

npm search keyword

< Keyword > searches Title, Description, Author and Keywords of all packages.

Answer 5

npmsearch sorts the results by a combination of relevance and downloads. The command line version can be installed from npm:

[sudo] npm install -g npmsearch

disclamer: I am the author of npmsearch

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node-modules allows you to personalize your results according to the modules that you have starred/followed on github

Answer 6

https://github.com/Enome/node-package-finder (Latest commit 26ff789 on 4 May 2012, should count as dead)