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<!doctype html> <html> <title>npm-cache</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" value="text/html;utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../static/style.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.npmjs.org/doc/api/npm-cache.html"> <script async=true src="../../static/toc.js"></script> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <h1><a href="../api/npm-cache.html">npm-cache</a></h1> <p>manage the npm cache programmatically</p> <h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> <pre><code>npm.commands.cache([args], callback) // helpers npm.commands.cache.clean([args], callback) npm.commands.cache.add([args], callback) npm.commands.cache.read(name, version, forceBypass, callback) </code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2> <p>This acts much the same ways as the <a href="../cli/npm-cache.html"><a href="../cli/npm-cache.html">npm-cache(1)</a></a> command line functionality.</p> <p>The callback is called with the package.json data of the thing that is eventually added to or read from the cache.</p> <p>The top level <code>npm.commands.cache(...)</code> functionality is a public interface, and like all commands on the <code>npm.commands</code> object, it will match the command line behavior exactly.</p> <p>However, the cache folder structure and the cache helper functions are considered <strong>internal</strong> API surface, and as such, may change in future releases of npm, potentially without warning or significant version incrementation.</p> <p>Use at your own risk.</p> </div> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 id=npmlogo> <tr><td style="width:180px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=18>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)">&nbsp;</td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4>&nbsp;</td><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)">&nbsp;</td><td colspan=6 style="width:60px;height:10px;background:#fff">&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2 style="width:20px;height:30px;background:#fff" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=4 colspan=2>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:20px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=2>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3 colspan=2>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=2>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff">&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td style="width:60px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=6>&nbsp;</td><td colspan=10 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)">&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=5 style="width:50px;height:10px;background:#fff">&nbsp;</td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=4>&nbsp;</td><td style="width:90px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=9>&nbsp;</td></tr> </table> <p id="footer">npm-cache &mdash; npm@2.1.11</p>