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Feature: npm pkg get <value> --raw #5508
Description
Problem
One of the most popular use cases for pkg get command is getting values for other scripts as variables. However currently it's returning the value with quotes:
npm pkg get version
"4.12.2"
The current solution is to use it in a pipe and remove quotes somehow with sed or jq. It's ok, but this solution si not cross-platform or requires additional packages installation.
Suggestion
To introduce --raw/-r flag for npm pkg get command
Thus, for the following command we will expect the raw value:
npm pkg get version --raw
4.12.2
What do you think? It's a simple case but you can see how much discussion about this topic:
https://github.com/proxy/gist.github.com/DarrenN/8c6a5b969481725a4413
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9153571/is-there-a-way-to-get-version-from-package-json-in-nodejs-code
Reacted by Remco Tolsma, Robin, Aljoscha Bollmann, Sergei Solovev, Bruno Macedo, Olle Bröms, DarkMikey, Joël DIBASSO, scipilot, Vladyslav Zubko and 15 more
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ljharb commentedon Sep 14, 2022
Seems reasonable to me - you may want to file an RFC.
ThePlenkov commentedon Sep 15, 2022
@ljharb sure - but I don't know what is this. Do you have an example?
ThePlenkov commentedon Sep 15, 2022
Do you mean I'd better create it here? https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues
ThePlenkov commentedon Sep 15, 2022
Just did: npm/rfcs#634
lukekarrys commentedon Nov 10, 2022
From the linked RFC (npm/rfcs#634), this is a great feature enhancement (and something I would use personally 😄). If anyone wants to implement it, the flag should be
--parseable. I'm going to close the linked RFC and use this issue for tracking.mbrevda commentedon Nov 24, 2022
As the default value for the
--jsonflag isfalse, this can be seen as a bug fix, not a feature and no flag should be necessary (breaking changes, etc, aside).ThePlenkov commentedon Mar 18, 2023
Hi! I'm really wondering will any of flags ( --raw, --parseable, --json ) be considered to print version without quotes? Thanks!
alasdairhurst commentedon Nov 25, 2025
What would the expectation be for non-string values fetched by
npm pkg get --parseable?For example `npm pkg get dependencies --parseable
wraithgar commentedon Apr 22, 2026
#9269