Script used to determine current publish status of azer's packages. Done out of curiosity as to who is claiming the free'd up npm package names.

get-azer-pkg-statuses.js

'use strict';
let _ = require('lodash');
let Promise = require('bluebird');
let request = Promise.promisify(require('request'));
let pkg_list = 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/azer/db27417ee84b5f34a6ea/raw/50ab7ef26dbde2d4ea52318a3590af78b2a21162/gistfile1.txt';
let registry = 'http://registry.npmjs.org/';

function processPkgs(pkgs) {
	let data = {
		maintainerCounts: [],
		unpublished: [],
		published: []
	};
	pkgs.forEach(pkg => {
		let info = getInfo(pkg);
		data[info.version ? 'published' : 'unpublished'].push(info);
	});

	data.published = _(data.published)
		.groupBy('maintainers')
		.forEach((publishedPkgs, maintainer) => {
			publishedPkgs = _.sortBy(publishedPkgs, 'publishTime');
			data.maintainerCounts.push({
				maintainer: maintainer,
				count: publishedPkgs.length
			});
		});

	data.maintainerCounts = _.sortBy(data.maintainerCounts, 'count').reverse();
	return data;
}

function getInfo(pkg) {
	let unpublished = pkg.time.unpublished;
	let latest = pkg['dist-tags'] && pkg['dist-tags'].latest;
	let lastPublish = latest && pkg.time[latest] && new Date(pkg.time[latest]);
	if (unpublished) {
		return {
			pkg: pkg.name,
			at: unpublished.time,
			by: unpublished.name
		};
	} else {
		return {
			pkg: pkg.name,
			version: pkg['dist-tags'].latest,
			publishTime: lastPublish,
			maintainers: pkg.maintainers && pkg.maintainers.map(m => m.name).join(', '),
			author: pkg.author && pkg.author.name
		};
	}
}

request(pkg_list)
	.then(res => res.body.split('\n'))
	.then(pkgs => pkgs.map(pkg => request(registry + pkg)))
	.all()
	.then(ress => ress.map(res => JSON.parse(res.body)))
	.then(processPkgs)
	.then(data => console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, '\t')));