Get list of all packages on npm

Question

Is there an NPM equivalent to RubyGems:

gem list --remote --source=http://gems.github.com/

I am trying to get a list of just the package names available on npm

Answer 1

Not the ideal solution, but its fairly easy to replicate the NPM registry with couchDB, and then querying it for the information needed: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/registry

As of writing this, the entire clone is ~1.5GB of space, which includes lots of metadata.