Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MetaD
CLI tool to get information about an npm package.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MetaD launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2025 · simonwillison.net · its alternatives →
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Firecrawl CLI▲249The complete web data toolkit for AI agents
Mar 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →
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Resend CLI 2.0▲369Built for humans, AI agents, and CI/CD pipelines
Apr 2026 · resend.com · its alternatives →
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WhatsDiff▲141CLI tool to help you understand changes in your dependencies
Nov 2025 · whatsdiff.app · its alternatives →
- 9RC
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for, - Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode) - Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512 - Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random - Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff - Development Tools: calc, json…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote this tool to get familiar with CLIP model, I know many people have written similar tools with CLIP before, but I'm new to machine learning and writing a classic tool helps my study. The unusual thing with my version is, it is in pure Node.js, with the power of node-mlx, a Node.js machine learning framework. The repo in the link is mostly about implementing indexing and CLI, the code of the model implementation lives as a Node.js module: https://github.com/frost-beta/clip . Hope this helps other learners!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This past quarter has been awash with sophisticated npm supply chain attacks like [Shai-Hulud](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/09/23/widesprea...() and the [Chalk/debug Compromise](https://www.wiz.io/blog/widespread-npm-supply-chain-attack-b...). This CLI helps protect users from recently compromised packages by only downloading packages that have been public for a while (default is 90 days or older). Install: npm install -g @dendronhq/safe-npm Usage: safe-npm install react@^18 lodash How it works: - Queries…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Monitor NuGet and NPM packages in your repositories
2021 · its alternatives →
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2016 · npmdiscover.com · its alternatives →
- 17CF
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20RP
2021 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Track NPM package downloads with this free tool.
2025 · npm-downlytics.mazyar.dev · its alternatives →
- 22RB
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 23PC
I often find myself in situations where I need to extract some data from a website, either as one time thing or periodically (and then watch for changes). Maybe I'm tracking stocks, or a delivery, or I want to know when tickets become available to the local sauna; maybe a friend called and asked "can you get me all data from that website into a spreadsheet?" (this happens surprisingly often) I used to write one-off scripts for that, often with Python or JavaScript, but I noticed I spend about one minute getting the right CSS selectors, and then another 10 minutes setting the rest of the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A tool to help developers stay safe with npm dependencies.
Feb 2026 · package-sentinel.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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