generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: >-
  registry.npmjs.org, pypi.org, rubygems.org search + metadata endpoints, and
  github.com/groupon — all queried 2026-09-04.
description: >-
  GROUPON SHIPS NO FIRST-PARTY API CLIENT LIBRARY. Every registry was searched and
  every candidate resolved. npm, PyPI and RubyGems carry Groupon API wrappers, but
  all of them are third-party, all target the retired v2 deals API, and the newest
  of them was published in 2015. Groupon's own npm organisation is real and
  active-ish, but it publishes internal engineering tooling (ESLint/CoffeeLint
  configs, a service client framework, a release manager, a cache) — none of it is
  a client for a Groupon API, so NO `SDKs` pointer is emitted from this file. The
  first-party column is genuinely empty, and that is the finding.
official_sdk_count: 0
packages: []
first_party_open_source:
  note: >-
    Published by the github.com/groupon organisation and the `groupon` npm scope.
    Recorded because it is real first-party engineering output, but it is
    general-purpose tooling, NOT an API client, and it is not counted as an SDK.
    Note also that github.com/groupon currently reports public_repos: 0 — the
    organisation page is live (HTTP 200) but every repository these packages point
    at is no longer publicly served, so their source links are dangling.
  entries:
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: eslint-config-groupon
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-config-groupon
      version: 11.1.0
      published: '2022-04-01'
      official: true
      sdk: false
      note: ESLint configuration used by Groupon. Not an API client.
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: gofer
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/gofer
      version: 5.3.0
      published: '2024-02-12'
      official: true
      sdk: false
      note: >-
        General-purpose HTTP service client framework. The most recently published
        first-party package found, and the only one released in the last three
        years. Not a Groupon API client.
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: nlm
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nlm
      version: 5.8.0
      published: '2021-10-29'
      official: true
      sdk: false
      note: Lifecycle manager for node projects. Not an API client.
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: cson-parser
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cson-parser
      version: 4.0.9
      published: '2021-03-26'
      official: true
      sdk: false
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: cached
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cached
      version: 6.1.0
      published: '2021-06-29'
      official: true
      sdk: false
third_party_wrappers:
  note: >-
    Recorded as an abandonment signal, not as SDKs. Every one of these wraps the
    Groupon v2 deals API, which is now gated behind an unobtainable client_id, and
    none has been touched in over a decade. No pointer is emitted for any of them.
  entries:
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: groupon
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/groupon
      version: 0.0.4
      published: '2011-08-12'
      official: false
      source: https://github.com/lalitkapoor/node-groupon-api
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: angular-groupon
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-groupon
      version: 0.1.6
      published: '2014-01-11'
      official: false
    - language: javascript
      registry: npm
      name: '@datafire/groupon'
      url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@datafire/groupon
      version: 5.0.0
      published: '2020-12-21'
      official: false
      note: DataFire integration bundle, machine-generated; not authored by Groupon.
    - language: ruby
      registry: rubygems
      name: groupon
      url: https://rubygems.org/gems/groupon
      version: 1.0.1
      published: '2013-04-04'
      official: false
    - language: ruby
      registry: rubygems
      name: groupon_api
      url: https://rubygems.org/gems/groupon_api
      version: 0.2.1
      published: '2015-06-07'
      official: false
    - language: ruby
      registry: rubygems
      name: groupon2
      url: https://rubygems.org/gems/groupon2
      version: 0.0.1
      published: '2011-03-29'
      official: false
negative_results:
  - registry: pypi
    queried:
      - groupon
      - groupon-api
      - python-groupon
    result: 404 for every candidate — no Groupon package on PyPI, first-party or otherwise.
    fetched: '2026-09-04'
  - registry: github
    queried: https://api.github.com/orgs/groupon/repos
    result: 'org resolves (public_repos: 0); no public repositories, so no SDK source to harvest.'
    fetched: '2026-09-04'