Npm - find out from command line whether the name was taken

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Is there a way to find out from command line whether a package name was taken?

I am looking for something similar to bower info $name. I don't want to use npm install $name to test it, so please don't send answers like that!

Was marked as duplicate of How to find search/find npm packages

My question is about finding out whether a package name was taken with the usage of a command line tool, not about getting a package name list based on a keyword using a tool with web interface. So these questions are far from being the same.

Possible duplicate of [How to find search/find npm packages](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10568512/how-to-find-search-find-npm-packages) — Jørgen R, Aug 17 '16 at 13:22
@jurgemaister Btw. that is not the exact same question, since I am looking for command line tools. — inf3rno, Aug 17 '16 at 13:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '16 at 13:20

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There is a plugin for npm that allows this : https://www.npmjs.com/package/namecheck

install it and then you can use the command

namecheck name1 name2

And it'll check several names at once

answered Aug 17 '16 at 13:20

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