number of NPM packages vs every other language

modulecounts.py

import datetime
import requests

api = "http://www.modulecounts.com"


def api_call(endpoint, *args, **kwargs):
    url = api + endpoint.format(*args, **kwargs)
    return requests.get(url).json()


today = datetime.date.today()
today_str = today.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

print("data for", today_str)
print()

repositories = api_call("/repositories")

data = {}

for repo in repositories:
    repo_name = repo["name"]
    repo_id = repo["id"]

    repo_counts = api_call(
        "/repositories/{id}/counts/{date}/{date}", id=repo_id, date=today_str
    )

    if len(repo_counts) > 0:
        modules_count = repo_counts[0]["value"]
        print(repo_name, modules_count)
        data[repo_name] = modules_count

print()
print("npm", data["npm (node.js)"])
print(
    "other",
    sum(
        [
            modules_count
            for name, modules_count in data.items()
            if name != "npm (node.js)"
        ]
    ),
)

stats-2018-11-03.txt

Clojars (Clojure) 22897
CPAN 39114
CRAN (R) 13328
Crates.io (Rust) 19921
Crystal Shards 3863
Drupal (php) 41798
DUB (dlang) 1435
Gopm (go) 21124
Hackage (Haskell) 13218
Hex.pm (Elixir/Erlang) 7205
Julia 1906
Maven Central (Java) 254710
MELPA (Emacs) 3981
Nimble (Nim) 813
npm (node.js) 720290
nuget (.NET) 132150
Packagist (PHP) 200980
Pear (PHP) 602
Perl 6 Ecosystem (perl 6) 1248
PyPI 157199
Rubygems.org 147575
Vim Scripts 5536

npm 720290
other 1090603