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Dependents tooling

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Description

As a follow on from #307 I've started looking into the best way to get a modules dependents. So far the only way I've found how to do it is to scrape the npm site on this endpoint https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/express

Does anyone know of any alternative way or if there is an endpoint on http://registry.npmjs.org/ that would return the dependents?

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the follow-up context in #307 and the npm dependents page at https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/express. Compare that approach with the registry.npmjs.org endpoint mentioned in the issue, and document whether a usable dependents endpoint or alternative exists.

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Assessment

Tech stack
node.js
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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