{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww/issues/592","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww/issues/592/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww/issues/592/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww/issues/592/events","html_url":"https://github.com/npm/newww/issues/592","id":55719761,"number":592,"title":"Download link for package archive?","user":{"login":"trusktr","id":297678,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/297678?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr","html_url":"https://github.com/trusktr","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trusktr/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww/labels/awaiting%20product%20decision","name":"awaiting product decision","color":"fad8c7"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"eb6420"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":10,"created_at":"2015-01-28T06:31:25Z","updated_at":"2016-02-03T15:44:47Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I don't see a link on package pages for download the package (e.g. a zip or tar file). npm install is having an error, so I'd like to simply download the package manually to see what's going on. Is there some way to download a package without npm install?\r\n\r\nIdea: put a download link on package pages. :D"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww/issues/comments/179301221","html_url":"https://github.com/npm/newww/issues/592#issuecomment-179301221","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/newww/issues/592","id":179301221,"user":{"login":"aredridel","id":2876,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2876?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel","html_url":"https://github.com/aredridel","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aredridel/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-02-03T15:44:47Z","updated_at":"2016-02-03T15:44:47Z","body":"Ah, I see!\r\n\r\nPart of the problem is that if the registry isn't reliable where you are, a download link is going to suffer very similar problems. A single http stream instead of several, but no retries in browsers (and npm the command line tool does retry)"}}