NPM-PROFILE(1)

💅 npm-profile — NPM-PROFILE(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to npm-profile — the little man page that lets you ~glow up~ your registry profile. this is NPM-PROFILE(1), and yes we're doing this properly, so buckle up 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

npm profile enable-2fa [auth-only|auth-and-writes]
npm profile disable-2fa
npm profile get [<key>]
npm profile set <key> <value>

💀 heads up bestie: this command is unaware of workspaces. like, it literally does not know they exist. no cap.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this whole thing is about changing your profile info on the registry. but here's the tea: it depends on the registry implementation, which means third-party registries might not support this interface at all. no shade to them, it's just how it is 🫶

• npm profile get [<property>] — shows you all the properties on your profile, or just one or more specific ones you ask for. it looks like this, iconic:

name: example
email: e@example.com (verified)
two-factor auth: auth-and-writes
fullname: Example User
homepage:
github:
created: 2015-02-26T01:38:35.892Z
updated: 2017-10-02T21:29:45.922Z

• npm profile set <property> <value> — sets the value of a profile property. the ones you can set this way are: email, fullname, homepage, github. that's the whole list, don't try to be creative 💅
• npm profile set password — changes your password. it's interactive, so you'll be prompted for your current password and then a new password. and if you have two-factor authentication enabled, you'll also get prompted for an OTP. three prompts, one slay 🔥
• npm profile enable-2fa [auth-and-writes|auth-only] — turns on two-factor authentication. defaults to auth-and-writes mode. the modes are:
  • auth-only: requires an OTP when you log in or when you make changes to your account's authentication. the OTP is required on both the website and the command line.
  • auth-and-writes: requires an OTP at all the times auth-only does, and also requires one when you publish a module, set the latest dist-tag, or change access via npm access and npm owner. it's giving maximum security main character energy 👑
• npm profile disable-2fa — disables two-factor authentication. bye bye OTP 🦋

🧚 DETAILS 🧚

some of these commands may not be available on non npmjs.com registries. just so you know 👀

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⭐ CONFIGURATION ⭐

🌈 registry

• Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
• Type: URL

the base URL of the npm registry. that's it, that's the whole vibe.

🍓 json

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.

• in npm pkg set it enables parsing set values with JSON.parse() before saving them to your package.json.

🙈 not supported by all npm commands, fyi.

💜 parseable

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

outputs parseable results from commands that write to standard output. for npm search, this will be tab-separated table format. very spreadsheet of it.

🔑 otp

• Default: null
• Type: null or String

this is a one-time password from a two-factor authenticator. it's needed when publishing or changing package permissions with npm access.

if it's not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a one-time password, npm will prompt on the command line for one. so like, it's got your back 😌

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• npm help login
• npm help registry
• npm help config
• npm help npmrc
• npm help owner
• npm help whoami
• npm help token

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅✨ this was NPM@12.2.1, October 2026 — NPM-PROFILE(1), signing off 🎀🫶