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# npm CDN metadata APIs — jsDelivr `/v1/package/` is deprecated by header only (body unchanged, `successor-version` Link); `x-jsd-version-type` says `version` even for tags/ranges; unpkg `?meta` on a file returns `files: []` at 200; cdnjs `fields=` gates the payload, unknown field → 200 `{}`, no `limit` clamp, `versions` tail unsorted

Three keyless CDNs expose npm package metadata over HTTP. Observed live 2026-09-30 with curl, package `lodash` (jsDelivr/unpkg) and library `jquery` (cdnjs). Batch-10's CLDR record already covers the resolution-redirect contrast (unpkg 302s to the resolved version, jsDelivr serves it directly); this record is about the metadata endpoints.

## jsDelivr data API (`data.jsdelivr.com`)

- `GET /v1/package/npm/lodash` → **200** `{"tags":{"latest":"4.18.1"},"versions":[117 strings, newest first: "4.18.1","4.18.0","4.17.23",… ending "0.1.0"]}` — **but the reply carries `deprecation: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT`** and `link: <…docs…>; rel="deprecation", <https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/packages/npm/lodash>; rel="successor-version"`. Nothing in the body says so. Watch the `Deprecation`/`Link` headers, not the JSON.
- Successor `GET /v1/packages/npm/lodash` → 200 `{"type":"npm","name":"lodash","tags":{…},"versions":[{"version":"4.18.1","links":{"self","entrypoints","stats"}},…],"links":{"stats"}}` — versions become objects with HATEOAS links. `GET /v1/packages/npm/lodash/resolved?specifier=^4` → `{"type":"npm","name":"lodash","version":"4.18.1","links":{…}}` (the old `/v1/package/resolve/npm/lodash@^4` also still answers, deprecated by the same headers).
- Unknown package → **404** JSON `{"status":404,"message":"Couldn't fetch versions for <name>."}` on both old and new paths, `cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate`; 200s are `public, max-age=300, stale-while-revalidate=3600, stale-if-error=86400`, `via: 1.1 varnish`. (One old-path 404 probe timed out at the TCP layer — `curl: (35)` — and succeeded on retry; transient.)
- On the CDN itself, `cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash/package.json`, `…lodash@latest/…`, `…lodash@^4/…`, `…lodash@4/…` all → **200 directly** with `x-jsd-version: 4.18.1` and **`x-jsd-version-type: version`** — the type header describes what was served, not what you asked for; a tag or a range is indistinguishable from an exact version in the headers. Resolved replies: `cache-control: public, max-age=604800, s-maxage=43200`. Unknown version (`@99.99.99`) and unknown tag (`@next`) → **404** `text/plain` "Couldn't find the requested release version 99.99.99.", `max-age=30`.

## unpkg `?meta`

- `GET https://unpkg.com/lodash@4.17.21/?meta` → 200 `application/json` `{"package":"lodash","version":"4.17.21","prefix":"/","files":[{"path":"/LICENSE","size":1952,"type":"text/plain","integrity":"sha256-…"},…]}` — a **recursive** listing (1,054 files under `/`; `/fp/?meta` → 415 files, `prefix: "/fp/"`). Each entry: `path`, `size`, `type`, `integrity` (sha256). Cached `max-age=31536000`, `cf-cache-status: HIT`, `access-control-allow-origin: *`.
- **`?meta` on a file path is a 200 with nothing in it**: `/lodash@4.17.21/lodash.js?meta` and `/package.json?meta` → 200 `{"package":"lodash","version":"4.17.21","prefix":"/lodash.js/","files":[]}` — the file name is treated as a directory prefix. If you want a single file's size/integrity, list the parent directory and pick the `path`.
- Unresolved version keeps the query: `/lodash/?meta` → **302** `location: /lodash@4.18.1/?meta`, `cache-control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=300` (vs one year on the resolved URL). `@^4` and `@latest` also 302 to `/lodash@4.18.1/…`.
- 404s are `text/plain;charset=UTF-8` sentences: "Package version not found: lodash@99.99.99", "Package version not found: lodash@next", "Package not found: <name>".

## cdnjs API (`api.cdnjs.com`)

- `GET /libraries?search=jquery` → 200 `{"results":[{"name","latest"}],"total":N,"available":1084}` — **default rows have only `name` and `latest`** (a URL to the main file). Add `fields=version,description,…` to get more. `total` = rows returned, `available` = matches. `limit=1` → total 1 / available 387 (search=react).
- **No `limit` clamp observed**: `?search=a&limit=99999` returned `total: 3531, available: 3531` (all matches, 3,531 rows). `?limit=1` with no search → `available: 4615` (catalogue size).
- `GET /libraries/jquery` → 200, 13 keys (~4 KB): `name, latest, sri, description, keywords, version, filename, homepage, license, repository, autoupdate, versions, assets`. `?fields=version,versions,latest,filename` trims to those. **`?fields=nonsense` → HTTP 200 `{}`** — unknown field names are not an error; an empty object means you misspelt a field, not that the library is empty.
- `versions` (87 for jquery) is **not reliably sorted**: head is `4.0.0, 4.0.0-rc.2, 4.0.0-rc.1, 4.0.0-beta.2, 4.0.0-beta, 3.7.1,…` (prereleases after the release they precede) and the tail is `…1.3.0, 1.2.6, 1.2.3, 1.7` — `versions[-1]` is `1.7`, not the oldest. Sort with a semver comparator; use `version` (top level) for "latest" (`4.0.0`).
- `GET /libraries/jquery/3.7.1` → `{"name","version","rawFiles":[…],"files":[…],"sri":{"jquery.js":"sha512-…",…}}` — per-file SRI hashes ready for `integrity=`.
- 404s are JSON: `{"error":true,"status":404,"message":"Library not found"}` / `"Version not found"`, `cache-control: public, max-age=3600`; 200s `max-age=21600`; `access-control-allow-origin: *`.

## Reproduce

```
curl -sS -D - -o /dev/null https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/package/npm/lodash | grep -i -E '^(deprecation|link)'
curl -sS -D - -o /dev/null https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash@^4/package.json | grep -i x-jsd      # x-jsd-version-type: version
curl -sS 'https://unpkg.com/lodash@4.17.21/lodash.js?meta'                                          # {"…","prefix":"/lodash.js/","files":[]}
curl -sS 'https://api.cdnjs.com/libraries/jquery?fields=nonsense'                                   # {}
curl -sS 'https://api.cdnjs.com/libraries/jquery?fields=versions' | python3 -c "import json,sys;v=json.load(sys.stdin)['versions'];print(v[:3],v[-3:])"
```

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct HTTPS GET with curl 8.17.0 (default UA) against data.jsdelivr.com, cdn.jsdelivr.net, unpkg.com and api.cdnjs.com; JSON inspected with Python 3.

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