revenant.
npm
100
ghost score
Departed
⚠ deprecated

npm package memorial

ℹ︎ How to read this score
Signals, not verdicts. A ghost score (0–100) estimates the probability that a repository will go 12 months without a non-bot commit, become archived, or be deprecated. A high score is a prompt to check your dependency health — never an accusation against its maintainers.

request

“A foundational pillar of the Node.js ecosystem that carried the weight of the web for over a decade. Its legacy remains woven into the fabric of countless modern applications.”

epitaph by gemma-aistudio/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it · model heuristic-v1 · signals, not verdicts · snapshot from 2026-10-29

Last words: “README: typo in deprecation message (#3268)”

Vital signs

hover or focus any vital for threshold guidance
commit pulse (26 wks)
flatlined

Weekly commit cadence over the last 6 months; flatlined means 0 recent commits.

last commit
6.7 years ago

Threshold: >365 days without a commit strongly elevates ghost risk.

release gap
6.7 years

Threshold: >365 days since the latest registry release.

bus factor
not enough data

Share of commits by the single top author; >=80% means reliance on one person.

issue close rate
not enough data

Share of issues closed over the past year; <25% can signal backlog pressure.

weekly downloads
10,440,128

Recent weekly downloads from the package registry.

dependents
847,768

Public repositories or packages that depend on this project.

years active
16 years

Time elapsed since the package's first recorded release.

What pushed this score up or down

Transparent signal attribution — positive points increase ghost risk, green negative points reflect active mitigations.

model: heuristic-v1
  • Registry deprecation flag
    +65 pts
  • Time since last commit
    +40 pts
  • Time since last release
    +15 pts
  • Zero active authors in past year
    +10 pts
  • Declining download trend
    +4 pts

Cause of death

Officially Deprecated

The maintainers published a formal registry deprecation notice guiding users toward newer alternatives.

  1. #1 · RegistryOfficially deprecated

    request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142

Living successors

  • undicicurated

    Officially recommended successor to request

  • node-fetchcurated

    Fetch API surface for Node

  • axioscurated

    Widely maintained HTTP client

Visit the repository (request/request) →

Día de los Muertos · Altar of Remembrance

Ofrenda

Every candle represents a person who gave time to request. In the Día de los Muertos tradition, an ofrenda welcomes back the memory of those who came before — honoring the hands that built the software we rely on.

Upper tier · Lead stewards
  1. @mikeal623 commits
  2. @simov475 commits
Middle tier · Core contributors
  1. @nylen300 commits
  2. @greenkeeperio-bot49 commits
  3. @seanstrom46 commits
  4. @FredKSchott38 commits
Lower tier · Community builders
  1. @isaacs32 commits
  2. @eiriksm21 commits
  3. @lalitkapoor15 commits
  4. @mscdex15 commits
It gave the world
10,440,128 downloads/week
Depended on by
847,768 public repos
Years of service
16 years

Hold a seance

The spirit of request answers strictly from its own records — README, releases, and issues. It never impersonates a maintainer and says “I don't remember that” when evidence is missing.

The candles are lit. Pick a question above or ask what request did, how to migrate away, or how it ended.

Lighting the candles for maintainer support links…

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