Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 2.9m
- -12% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 3
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 4 years ago
- v5.2.1
- GitHub stars
- 414
- 59 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 7 / 2
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
2,940,236 downloads last week, 11,569,117 in the last month. The 12-month change of -12% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 041 in total
- Latest version
- 5.2.1, 27 May 20224 years ago
- First published
- 18 Jun 2011
- Last push to GitHub
- 21 Dec 2024642 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 7
- Open pull requests
- 2
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
- Dependents on npm
- -
Major versions
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 2 Jan 2018
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 19 Nov 2014
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 5 Mar 2014
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 2 Mar 2013
- v1 first release 1.1.0, 25 Feb 2013
- v0 first release 0.0.0, 18 Jun 2011
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 5.2.1 | 27 May 2022 |
| 5.2.0 | 28 Jan 2019 |
| 5.1.0 | 28 Feb 2018 |
| 5.0.2 | 6 Jan 2018 |
| 5.0.1 | 2 Jan 2018 |
| 5.0.0 | 2 Jan 2018 |
| 4.7.1 | 21 Dec 2017 |
| 4.7.0 | 1 Dec 2017 |
| 4.6.0 | 26 Nov 2017 |
| 4.5.0 | 1 Mar 2017 |
| 4.4.0 | 1 Mar 2017 |
| 4.3.2 | 22 Oct 2016 |
| 4.3.1 | 1 Nov 2015 |
| 4.3.0 | 1 Nov 2015 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- None
- Node.js engine range
- >=0.8.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 20 kB
- Dependencies (3)
definedminimistacorn-node
npm install detective- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/detective@5.2.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/detective@5.2.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/detective@5.2.1
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