Alpakr CLI 🦙

A simple package lookup service that isn't too strict about its inputs. Paste a snippet of names and Alpakr will do it's best to provide info about the packages.

Conjugation of 'All' and 'Packager' and pronounced the friendly fury alpaca.

\ ăl-păk′ə \

Install

npm i -g alpakr-cli

or

cargo install alpakr-cli

Usage

Copy paste a fragment from a Cargo.toml, package.json or python requirments.txt file and pipe it to alpakr.

$ echo '
    "axios": "^0.26.1",
    "chalk": "^5.0.1",
    "cli": "^1.0.1",
' | alpakr

Example output:

npm

axios -> Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
https://npmjs.com/package/axios

chalk -> Terminal string styling done right
https://npmjs.com/package/chalk

cli -> A tool for rapidly building command line apps
https://npmjs.com/package/cli

Note: for best result paste at least one full line, but more is better.

Other ways to query

$ grep -A 3 "chalk" package.json | alpakr

$ alpakr <enter>
    "axios": "^0.26.1",
    "chalk": "^5.0.1",
    "cli": "^1.0.1",
<ctrl-d>

# If you are on Mac use `pbpaste`
$ pbpaste | alpakr

Options

• --verbose: see encoded payload and full response
• --json: output as JSON

Supported package managers

• [x] npm (npmjs.com)
• [x] cargo (crates.io)
• [x] pip (pypi.org)
• [x] gem (rubygems.org)
• [x] composer (packagist.org)
• [ ] ~gomod (pkg.go.dev)~

Motivation

In short. I read a lot of code in many different languages. Part of that is looking into what third party packages are used. This can be by reading package.json files or skimming through the text when compiling a Rust program. I wanted to make it easier to learn about packages I don't know about.