Package
shellwords
Manipulate strings according to the word parsing rules of the UNIX Bourne shell.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 4.9m
- -4% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 1 year ago
- v1.1.1
- GitHub stars
- 40
- 6 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 2 / 1
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
4,937,114 downloads last week, 18,781,002 in the last month. The 12-month change of -4% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 08 in total
- Latest version
- 1.1.1, 11 Jul 20251 year ago
- First published
- 13 Nov 2011
- Last push to GitHub
- 11 Jul 2025440 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 2
- Open pull requests
- 1
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
- Dependents on npm
- -
Major versions
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 1 Feb 2022
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 13 Nov 2011
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 1.1.1 | 11 Jul 2025 |
| 1.1.0 | 28 Jun 2025 |
| 1.0.1 | 1 Feb 2022 |
| 1.0.0 | 1 Feb 2022 |
| 0.1.1 | 17 Aug 2017 |
| 0.1.0 | 21 Jul 2012 |
| 0.0.2 | 28 Jun 2012 |
| 0.0.1 | 13 Nov 2011 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 18 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install shellwords- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/shellwords@1.1.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/shellwords@1.1.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/shellwords@1.1.1
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @inquirer/core | 46.7m | - | 17 days ago | ESM only | - |
| @inquirer/type | 43.6m | - | 22 days ago | ESM only | - |
| @inquirer/figures | 37.9m | - | 22 days ago | ESM only | - |
| @inquirer/confirm | 37.3m | - | 17 days ago | ESM only | - |
| inquirer | 37.2m | - | 17 days ago | ESM only | - |
| @inquirer/ansi | 33m | - | 22 days ago | ESM only | - |
| @inquirer/external-editor | 28.9m | - | 22 days ago | ESM only | - |
| @inquirer/prompts | 27.9m | - | 17 days ago | ESM only | - |
Indexability: Indexed.