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General natural language (tokenizing, stemming (English, Russian, Spanish), part-of-speech tagging, sentiment analysis, classification, inflection, phonetics, tfidf, WordNet, jaro-winkler, Levenshtein distance, Dice's Coefficient) facilities for node.

v8.1.1, 27 Feb 2026MITCommonJSTypes: BundledParsers and serialisersAI and machine learning
$ npm install natural

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
912.5k
+324% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
14
Direct, from package.json
Last release
6 months ago
v8.1.1
GitHub stars
10.9k
851 forks
Open issues / PRs
80 / 8
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
7

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
0500k1m1.5mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 1.3m (25 Aug 2026)Low 184.7k (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.

912,516 downloads last week, 4,450,240 in the last month. The 12-month change of +324% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
1146 in total
Latest version
8.1.1, 27 Feb 20266 months ago
First published
11 May 2011
Last push to GitHub
22 Feb 2026214 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
80
Open pull requests
8
Commits, last 52 weeks
7
Dependents on npm
-

Major versions

  1. v8 first release 8.0.0, 8 Aug 2024
  2. v7 first release 7.0.0, 8 Apr 2024
  3. v6 first release 6.0.0, 29 Dec 2022
  4. v5 first release 5.0.0, 26 Mar 2021
  5. v4 first release 4.0.0, 17 Feb 2021
  6. v3 first release 3.0.0, 3 Feb 2021
  7. v2 first release 2.0.0, 1 May 2020
  8. v1 first release 1.0.0, 23 Apr 2020
  9. v0 first release 0.0.27, 21 Jul 2011

Recent releases

VersionPublished
8.1.127 Feb 2026
8.1.022 May 2025
8.0.19 Aug 2024
8.0.08 Aug 2024
7.1.07 Jul 2024
7.0.72 Jul 2024
7.0.627 May 2024
7.0.517 Apr 2024
7.0.317 Apr 2024
7.0.216 Apr 2024
7.0.115 Apr 2024
7.0.08 Apr 2024
6.12.012 Mar 2024
6.11.110 Mar 2024
Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=0.4.10
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
13.2 MB
Dependencies (14)
pguuidmemjsredisdotenvmongooseafinn-165apparatussylvesterunderscorewordnet-dbstopwords-isosafe-stable-stringifyafinn-165-financialmarketnews
npm install natural
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/natural@8.1.1/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/natural@8.1.1/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/natural@8.1.1
PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
parse-latin3.5m-3 years agoESM only-
parse-english166.4k-3 years agoESM only-
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.