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koa-body

A Koa body parser middleware. Supports multipart, urlencoded and JSON request bodies.

v8.0.1, 7 Sept 2026MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledHTTP servers and web frameworks
$ npm install koa-body
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
406.1k
+39% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
7
Direct, from package.json
Last release
18 days ago
v8.0.1
GitHub stars
954
129 forks
Open issues / PRs
6 / 3
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
38

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
0200k400k600kSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 597.3k (25 Aug 2026)Low 205k (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

406,114 downloads last week, 2,054,688 in the last month. The 12-month change of +39% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
447 in total
Latest version
8.0.1, 7 Sept 202618 days ago
First published
31 Jan 2014
Last push to GitHub
23 Sept 20261 day before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
6
Open pull requests
3
Commits, last 52 weeks
38
Dependents on npm
1,430

Major versions

  1. v8 first release 8.0.0, 13 May 2026
  2. v7 first release 7.0.0, 23 Oct 2025
  3. v6 first release 6.0.0, 27 Oct 2022
  4. v5 first release 5.0.0, 21 Apr 2022
  5. v4 first release 4.0.0, 5 Jun 2018
  6. v3 first release 3.0.0, 5 Jun 2018
  7. v2 first release 2.0.0, 24 Oct 2016
  8. v1 first release 1.0.0, 7 Feb 2015
  9. v0 first release 0.0.1, 31 Jan 2014

Recent releases

VersionPublished
8.0.17 Sept 2026
8.0.013 May 2026
7.0.115 Dec 2025
7.0.023 Oct 2025
6.0.129 Oct 2022
6.0.027 Oct 2022
5.0.021 Apr 2022
4.2.012 Jun 2020
4.1.319 May 2020
4.1.216 May 2020
4.1.113 Aug 2019
4.1.07 Mar 2019
4.0.88 Feb 2019
4.0.729 Jan 2019

Compatibility

Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
Not declared
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
63 kB
Dependencies (7)
zodco-bodytype-fest@types/koaformidable@types/co-body@types/formidable

Install

npm install koa-body

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/koa-body@8.0.1/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/koa-body@8.0.1/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/koa-body@8.0.1
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.