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+# npm-registry-client
+
+The code that npm uses to talk to the registry.
+
+It handles all the caching and HTTP calls.
+
+## Usage
+
+```javascript
+var RegClient = require('npm-registry-client')
+var client = new RegClient(options)
+
+client.get("npm", "latest", 1000, function (er, data, raw, res) {
+ // error is an error if there was a problem.
+ // data is the parsed data object
+ // raw is the json string
+ // res is the response from couch
+})
+```
+
+# Options
+
+* `registry` **Required** {String} URL to the registry
+* `cache` **Required** {String} Path to the cache folder
+* `alwaysAuth` {Boolean} Auth even for GET requests.
+* `auth` {String} A base64-encoded `username:password`
+* `email` {String} User's email address
+* `tag` {String} The default tag to use when publishing new packages.
+ Default = `"latest"`
+* `ca` {String} Cerficate signing authority certificates to trust.
+* `strictSSL` {Boolean} Whether or not to be strict with SSL
+ certificates. Default = `true`
+* `userAgent` {String} User agent header to send. Default =
+ `"node/{process.version}"`
+* `log` {Object} The logger to use. Defaults to `require("npmlog")` if
+ that works, otherwise logs are disabled.
+
+# client.request(method, where, [what], [etag], [nofollow], cb)
+
+* `method` {String} HTTP method
+* `where` {String} Path to request on the server
+* `what` {Stream | Buffer | String | Object} The request body. Objects
+ that are not Buffers or Streams are encoded as JSON.
+* `etag` {String} The cached ETag
+* `nofollow` {Boolean} Prevent following 302/301 responses
+* `cb` {Function}
+ * `error` {Error | null}
+ * `data` {Object} the parsed data object
+ * `raw` {String} the json
+ * `res` {Response Object} response from couch
+
+Make a request to the registry. All the other methods are wrappers
+around this. one.
+
+# client.adduser(username, password, email, cb)
+
+* `username` {String}
+* `password` {String}
+* `email` {String}
+* `cb` {Function}
+
+Add a user account to the registry, or verify the credentials.
+
+# client.get(url, [timeout], [nofollow], [staleOk], cb)
+
+* `url` {String} The url path to fetch
+* `timeout` {Number} Number of seconds old that a cached copy must be
+ before a new request will be made.
+* `nofollow` {Boolean} Do not follow 301/302 responses
+* `staleOk` {Boolean} If there's cached data available, then return that
+ to the callback quickly, and update the cache the background.
+
+Fetches data from the registry via a GET request, saving it in
+the cache folder with the ETag.
+
+# client.publish(data, tarball, [readme], cb)
+
+* `data` {Object} Package data
+* `tarball` {String | Stream} Filename or stream of the package tarball
+* `readme` {String} Contents of the README markdown file
+* `cb` {Function}
+
+Publish a package to the registry.
+
+Note that this does not create the tarball from a folder. However, it
+can accept a gzipped tar stream or a filename to a tarball.
+
+# client.star(package, starred, cb)
+
+* `package` {String} Name of the package to star
+* `starred` {Boolean} True to star the package, false to unstar it.
+* `cb` {Function}
+
+Star or unstar a package.
+
+Note that the user does not have to be the package owner to star or
+unstar a package, though other writes do require that the user be the
+package owner.
+
+# client.tag(project, version, tag, cb)
+
+* `project` {String} Project name
+* `version` {String} Version to tag
+* `tag` {String} Tag name to apply
+* `cb` {Function}
+
+Mark a version in the `dist-tags` hash, so that `pkg@tag`
+will fetch the specified version.
+
+# client.unpublish(name, [ver], cb)
+
+* `name` {String} package name
+* `ver` {String} version to unpublish. Leave blank to unpublish all
+ versions.
+* `cb` {Function}
+
+Remove a version of a package (or all versions) from the registry. When
+the last version us unpublished, the entire document is removed from the
+database.
+
+# client.upload(where, file, [etag], [nofollow], cb)
+
+* `where` {String} URL path to upload to
+* `file` {String | Stream} Either the filename or a readable stream
+* `etag` {String} Cache ETag
+* `nofollow` {Boolean} Do not follow 301/302 responses
+* `cb` {Function}
+
+Upload an attachment. Mostly used by `client.publish()`.