npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2026 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

ssht

v2.0.3

Published

ssh helper tool

Readme

ssht

SSH Helper Tool

npm Lines of code NPM node-current

ssht is a powerful tool for frequent SSH users. It provides a lighting-fast search of all hosts you can connect to. Extensible plugins automatically discover them across your network, virtualization platforms, the cloud, and more.

ssht is currently unstable, features and APIs are subject to change at any time.

[gif]

Features

  • Host Status As you type, ssht will optionally collect host information like connectivity and ping, and show it along each search result, so you can quickly identify offline hosts.
  • Fuzzy Search Can't spell? Type with your elbows? No problem. ssht uses fuzzy text searching to show you the best possible results even with spelling mistakes, missing, or duplicated letters.
  • Fully Extensible Want to auto-discover your custom widgets across your network? Share a giant SQL database of hosts with your whole company? Integrate with your own SSH certificate authority? ssht has first-class support for custom discovery plugins, with a performant incremental-async API
  • Dumb Fast Whether you've got a thousand or ten thousand hosts, ssht tears through huge search jobs using an efficient multithreaded search engine.
  • Plug 'n Play Unless you need to setup access to cloud services, you probably don't need to configure anything. If you do, there's tons of options to play with. Just npm install and go.

Sources

ssht can detect hosts from a variety of sources. It comes with the following builtin plugins:

  • SSH Config
  • Docker

SSH Config

This plugin reads your ~/.ssh/config file.

It has full support for even the most advanced config files, with recursive parsing of Include directives, Bash-4.2 compatible globbing with globstar, and more.

This plugin uses optional multithreaded computational parsing to quickly resolves all of the globbed patterns (eg. Host *.example.org) and allow searching by the actual parameters, even in complex configuration files.

Docker

If you have Docker running on your local machine, ssht will instantly discover all running containers that support SSH.

If the Docker container is inaccessible, ssht will analyze the network and automagically configure SSH's ProxyCommand option to properly route the connection to the container.