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libnpmaccess is a Node.js library that provides programmatic access to the guts of the npm CLI's npm access command and its various subcommands. This includes managing account 2FA, listing packages and permissions, looking at package collaborators, and defining package permissions for users, orgs, and teams.
Example
const access = require('libnpmaccess')
// List all packages @zkat has access to on the npm registry.
console.log(Object.keys(await access.lsPackages('zkat')))
Table of Contents
Install
$ npm install libnpmaccess
Contributing
The npm team enthusiastically welcomes contributions and project participation! There's a bunch of things you can do if you want to contribute! The Contributor Guide has all the information you need for everything from reporting bugs to contributing entire new features. Please don't hesitate to jump in if you'd like to, or even ask us questions if something isn't clear.
All participants and maintainers in this project are expected to follow Code of Conduct, and just generally be excellent to each other.
Please refer to the Changelog for project history details, too.
Happy hacking!
API
opts for libnpmaccess commands
libnpmaccess uses npm-registry-fetch. All options are passed through directly to that library, so please refer to its own opts documentation for options that can be passed in.
A couple of options of note for those in a hurry:
opts.token- can be passed in and will be used as the authentication token for the registry. For other ways to pass in auth details, see the n-r-f docs.opts.otp- certain operations will require an OTP token to be passed in. If alibnpmaccesscommand fails witherr.code === EOTP, please retry the request with{otp: <2fa token>}opts.Promise- If you pass this in, the Promises returned bylibnpmaccesscommands will use this Promise class instead. For example:{Promise: require('bluebird')}
> access.public(spec, [opts]) -> Promise
spec must be an npm-package-arg-compatible registry spec.
Makes package described by spec public.
Example
await access.public('@foo/bar', {token: 'myregistrytoken'})
// `@foo/bar` is now public
> access.restricted(spec, [opts]) -> Promise
spec must be an npm-package-arg-compatible registry spec.
Makes package described by spec private/restricted.
Example
await access.restricted('@foo/bar', {token: 'myregistrytoken'})
// `@foo/bar` is now private
> access.grant(spec, team, permissions, [opts]) -> Promise
spec must be an npm-package-arg-compatible registry spec. team must be a fully-qualified team name, in the scope:team format, with or without the @ prefix, and the team must be a valid team within that scope. permissions must be one of 'read-only' or 'read-write'.
Grants read-only or read-write permissions for a certain package to a team.
Example
await access.grant('@foo/bar', '@foo:myteam', 'read-write', {
token: 'myregistrytoken'
})
// `@foo/bar` is now read/write enabled for the @foo:myteam team.
> access.revoke(spec, team, [opts]) -> Promise
spec must be an npm-package-arg-compatible registry spec. team must be a fully-qualified team name, in the scope:team format, with or without the @ prefix, and the team must be a valid team within that scope. permissions must be one of 'read-only' or 'read-write'.
Removes access to a package from a certain team.
Example
await access.revoke('@foo/bar', '@foo:myteam', {
token: 'myregistrytoken'
})
// @foo:myteam can no longer access `@foo/bar`
> access.tfaRequired(spec, [opts]) -> Promise
spec must be an npm-package-arg-compatible registry spec.
Makes it so publishing or managing a package requires using 2FA tokens to complete operations.
Example
await access.tfaRequires('lodash', {token: 'myregistrytoken'})
// Publishing or changing dist-tags on `lodash` now require OTP to be enabled.
> access.tfaNotRequired(spec, [opts]) -> Promise
spec must be an npm-package-arg-compatible registry spec.
Disabled the package-level 2FA requirement for spec. Note that you will need to pass in an otp token in opts in order to complete this operation.
Example
await access.tfaNotRequired('lodash', {otp: '123654', token: 'myregistrytoken'})
// Publishing or editing dist-tags on `lodash` no longer requires OTP to be
// enabled.
> access.lsPackages(entity, [opts]) -> Promise
entity must be either a valid org or user name, or a fully-qualified team name in the scope:team format, with or without the @ prefix.
Lists out packages a user, org, or team has access to, with corresponding permissions. Packages that the access token does not have access to won't be listed.
In order to disambiguate between users and orgs, two requests may end up being made when listing orgs or users.
For a streamed version of these results, see access.lsPackages.stream().
Example
await access.lsPackages('zkat', {
token: 'myregistrytoken'
})
// Lists all packages `@zkat` has access to on the registry, and the
// corresponding permissions.
> access.lsPackages.stream(scope, [team], [opts]) -> Stream
entity must be either a valid org or user name, or a fully-qualified team name in the scope:team format, with or without the @ prefix.
Streams out packages a user, org, or team has access to, with corresponding permissions, with each stream entry being formatted like [packageName, permissions]. Packages that the access token does not have access to won't be listed.
In order to disambiguate between users and orgs, two requests may end up being made when listing orgs or users.
The returned stream is a valid asyncIterator.
Example
for await (let [pkg, perm] of access.lsPackages.stream('zkat')) {
console.log('zkat has', perm, 'access to', pkg)
}
// zkat has read-write access to eggplant
// zkat has read-only access to @npmcorp/secret
> access.lsCollaborators(spec, [user], [opts]) -> Promise
spec must be an npm-package-arg-compatible registry spec. user must be a valid user name, with or without the @ prefix.
Lists out access privileges for a certain package. Will only show permissions for packages to which you have at least read access. If user is passed in, the list is filtered only to teams that user happens to belong to.
For a streamed version of these results, see access.lsCollaborators.stream().
Example
await access.lsCollaborators('@npm/foo', 'zkat', {
token: 'myregistrytoken'
})
// Lists all teams with access to @npm/foo that @zkat belongs to.
> access.lsCollaborators.stream(spec, [user], [opts]) -> Stream
spec must be an npm-package-arg-compatible registry spec. user must be a valid user name, with or without the @ prefix.
Stream out access privileges for a certain package, with each entry in [user, permissions] format. Will only show permissions for packages to which you have at least read access. If user is passed in, the list is filtered only to teams that user happens to belong to.
The returned stream is a valid asyncIterator.
Example
for await (let [usr, perm] of access.lsCollaborators.stream('npm')) {
console.log(usr, 'has', perm, 'access to npm')
}
// zkat has read-write access to npm
// iarna has read-write access to npm