generated: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: npm, PyPI registry metadata endpoints + AMETEK developer surfaces
provider: AMETEK
providerId: ametek
package_count: 2
official_count: 2
description: >-
  AMETEK publishes no first-party client library in any public package REGISTRY — not npm, PyPI,
  Maven Central, NuGet, pkg.go.dev, RubyGems, Packagist or crates.io. It does publish two
  first-party libraries as SOURCE, from the github.com/crank-software organisation belonging to
  AMETEK's Crank Software brand. Those are recorded below with the currency data GitHub reports.
packages:
  - name: storyboard-lua
    official: true
    brand: Crank Software (AMETEK)
    language: lua
    registry: github
    url: https://github.com/crank-software/storyboard-lua
    description: Common Lua modules used with Crank Storyboard projects.
    version: v8.0.0
    published: '2023-05-02'
    version_source: https://api.github.com/repos/crank-software/storyboard-lua/releases
    checked: '2026-09-02'
    decay_signal: >-
      DECAY. The latest release is v8.0.0 from 2023-05-02, while the shipping product documented
      at docs.cranksoftware.com is version 9.0.2. The first-party Lua module set is a full major
      version behind the API it is meant to be used with, and has had no release in over three
      years. The previous release was v7.1.0 on 2021-12-23, so the cadence was already roughly
      annual before it stopped.
  - name: crank_sbio_extensions_python
    official: true
    brand: Crank Software (AMETEK)
    language: python
    registry: github
    url: https://github.com/crank-software/crank_sbio_extensions_python
    description: >-
      Extensions that wrap the Storyboard IO (SBIO) interface for Python. The nearest thing
      AMETEK has to a conventional client library for a Storyboard application's IO channel.
    version: null
    published: null
    last_pushed: '2024-08-21'
    version_source: https://api.github.com/repos/crank-software/crank_sbio_extensions_python/releases
    checked: '2026-09-02'
    note: >-
      Checked, nothing to record for version. The repository has NO releases and NO tags, and it
      is not published to PyPI, so there is no version a consumer can pin and no published date to
      report. `published` is null because the repo has never cut a release, not because the check
      was skipped. Last commit activity 2024-08-21.
      A consumer can only pin a git SHA.
github_organization:
  url: https://github.com/crank-software
  name: Crank Software
  http_status: 200
  public_repos: 10
  created: '2017-12-05'
  checked: '2026-09-02'
  note: >-
    The only public GitHub organisation belonging to any AMETEK brand that was found. There is no
    github.com/ametek and no github.com/cranksoftware (both 404 on the GitHub API). Ten public
    repos, mostly Storyboard sample/demo/benchmark projects plus Sketch and Figma design plugins;
    the two entries above are the ones that are libraries rather than samples.
searched:
  - registry: npm
    endpoint: https://registry.npmjs.org/<pkg>
    names: [ametek, powervar, skybitz, crank-storyboard, '@cranksoftware/storyboard']
    result: 404 on every name
    checked: '2026-09-02'
  - registry: npm
    endpoint: https://registry.npmjs.org/storyboard
    names: [storyboard]
    result: >-
      200, but NOT AMETEK. The npm package "storyboard" (version 3.3.2) is an unrelated
      hierarchical logging library. Explicitly excluded — a name collision, not a Crank Software
      release.
    checked: '2026-09-02'
  - registry: pypi
    endpoint: https://pypi.org/pypi/<pkg>/json
    names: [ametek, powervar, skybitz]
    result: 404 on every name
    checked: '2026-09-02'
  - registry: pypi
    endpoint: https://pypi.org/pypi/storyboard/json
    names: [storyboard]
    result: 200, but an unrelated project; not published by Crank Software or AMETEK. Excluded.
    checked: '2026-09-02'
distribution_note: >-
  AMETEK's developer artifacts are not distributed through package registries. Crank Storyboard —
  AMETEK's embedded-GUI product — ships its APIs as a compiled C library (libgreio.a with the
  gre/greio.h header), a Lua module, and a JavaScript engine binding, all delivered inside the
  Storyboard SDK download rather than via npm, PyPI or Maven. The iSite PRO REST API has no client
  library at all; it is called directly over HTTP. Neither surface has a registry metadata endpoint
  to query, so version and published dates are recorded as null below rather than guessed.
undistributed_libraries:
  - name: libgreio (Storyboard IO)
    product: Crank Storyboard
    language: c
    registry: null
    version: null
    published: null
    official: true
    docs: https://docs.cranksoftware.com/docs/9.0/storyboard/api/storyboard-io-api/
    note: >-
      Checked, nothing to record. Distributed inside the Storyboard SDK, not published to any
      registry, so there is no metadata endpoint that reports a version or a release date. The
      documentation set is versioned 9.0.2, which dates the docs, not the artifact.
  - name: Storyboard Lua API
    product: Crank Storyboard
    language: lua
    registry: null
    version: null
    published: null
    official: true
    docs: https://docs.cranksoftware.com/docs/9.0/storyboard/api/storyboard-lua-api/
    note: Checked; not on LuaRocks or any registry. Ships with the Storyboard SDK.
  - name: Storyboard JavaScript API
    product: Crank Storyboard
    language: javascript
    registry: null
    version: null
    published: null
    official: true
    docs: https://docs.cranksoftware.com/docs/9.0/storyboard/api/storyboard-javascript-api/
    note: >-
      Checked; not on npm. An engine-embedded JavaScript binding, not a distributable module.