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text-decoder

Streaming text decoder that preserves multibyte Unicode characters

v1.2.7, 16 Feb 2026Apache-2.0CommonJSTypes: None
$ npm install text-decoder
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
31.9m
+164% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
1
Direct, from package.json
Last release
7 months ago
v1.2.7
GitHub stars
2
3 forks
Open issues / PRs
0 / 0
Contributors
3
Commits, last 52 weeks
14

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
020m40m60mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 44.5m (25 Aug 2026)Low 9.1m (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.

31,928,635 downloads last week, 160,025,589 in the last month. The 12-month change of +164% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
412 in total
Latest version
1.2.7, 16 Feb 20267 months ago
First published
15 Aug 2023
Last push to GitHub
23 Apr 2026154 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
0
Open pull requests
0
Commits, last 52 weeks
14
Dependents on npm
20

Major versions

  1. v1 first release 1.0.0, 15 Aug 2023

Recent releases

VersionPublished
1.2.716 Feb 2026
1.2.613 Feb 2026
1.2.513 Feb 2026
1.2.413 Feb 2026
1.2.314 Dec 2024
1.2.26 Dec 2024
1.2.118 Oct 2024
1.2.012 Sept 2024
1.1.18 Jul 2024
1.1.025 Apr 2024
1.0.115 Aug 2023
1.0.015 Aug 2023

Compatibility

Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
None
Node.js engine range
Not declared
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
19 kB
Dependencies (1)
b4a

Install

npm install text-decoder

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/text-decoder@1.2.7/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/text-decoder@1.2.7/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/text-decoder@1.2.7
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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