# Install protocol-buffers with npm

Protocol Buffers for Node.js. Version 5.0.0 via npm; verified 2022-03-23.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:protocol-buffers
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g protocol-buffers
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:protocol-buffers
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/protocol-buffers>
- **Version:** 5.0.0
- **Source summary:** Protocol Buffers for Node.js
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/mafintosh/protocol-buffers>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mafintosh/protocol-buffers>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/mafintosh/protocol-buffers>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/protocol-buffers/-/protocol-buffers-5.0.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/mafintosh/protocol-buffers/issues>
- **Published:** 2022-03-23T11:18:49.223Z
- **Last updated:** 2022-03-23T11:18:49.223Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- protocol-buffers (cli)
- protocol-buffers (alias)

## Dependencies

- generate-function
- generate-object-property
- protocol-buffers-encodings
- protocol-buffers-schema
- signed-varint
- varint

## Build dependencies

- standard
- tape

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 5.0.0
- Package-manager updated: 2022-03-23
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/mafintosh/protocol-buffers
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for protocol-buffers. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 5.0.0
- **Version Count:** 64
- **Maintainers:** mafintosh
- **Author:** Mathias Buus
- **Publisher:** mafintosh
- **Integrity:** sha512-ceZAqqc5tKmsy4VXjQpCUbw9CJWHY+wIJitciBB9wyFXmcma8124Ck6LYwKncZgUzTkyCa+IyDrphI8s8DIWbA==
- **Shasum:** 00b8b1b2ef01d24377f2402c3f2f2c8335bc5fab
- **Unpacked Size:** 51,122
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2014-05-05T23:13:20.269Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2022-03-23T11:18:49.223Z
- **Modified At:** 2022-06-24T20:57:55.593Z


## Related links

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- [sass-embedded](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/sass-embedded/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: node, node-js, protobuf, protocol, varint.
- [csv-write-stream](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/csv-write-stream/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: generate, generate-object-property, object, property.
- [gamedig](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/gamedig/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: node, node-js, varint.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph