Can no longer grab newest npm packages from registry (/-/_list/index/modified)

[julianlam]

Attempting to access this route used to return a JSON string that showed a list of newly published packages as of startkey:

https://registry.npmjs.com/-/_list/index/modified?startkey=1439480888643

It now returns empty data with a 200 OK code, which is unsettling, to be honest. If the route is deprecated, is there a new one I can use?

I had to go diving into various git repositories and StackOverflow questions before I found this url, so I recognise it's probably an internal-use-only route or something, and I'd like to do it the proper way.

[julianlam]

The workaround for me is to use _view/byKeyword, and then hit npm once for every package that is returned (which in my case is over 300), which is really something I want to avoid doing as I'd prefer to just make a single call to npm.

[julianlam]

I reported this to the wrong repo, and found a duplicate:

npm/npm-registry-couchapp#242