generated: '2026-08-05'
method: searched
source: https://pypi.org/pypi/zerocater/json
summary: >-
  Zerocater publishes one first-party client library — a Python client for its v3 API,
  released from its own GitHub organization under the tech@zerocater.com author address
  and shipped to PyPI as `zerocater`. It has not been updated since 2015 and still
  points at the retired https://zerocater.com/api/v3 base URL (the live API is now at
  https://app.zerocater.com/api/v3), so it is catalogued as official but stale. The
  Node client of the same name on npm is community-maintained, not Zerocater's.
packages:
- language: python
  registry: pypi
  name: zerocater
  version: 0.0.1
  url: https://pypi.org/project/zerocater/
  repository: https://github.com/ZeroCater/PyZeroCater
  install: pip install zerocater
  license: MIT
  official: true
  evidence: >-
    Published from the ZeroCater GitHub organization; PyPI metadata lists author
    "ZeroCater" / tech@zerocater.com and home_page https://github.com/ZeroCater/PyZeroCater.
  status: stale
  note: >-
    Last released 2015; hard-codes _base_url = 'https://zerocater.com/api/v3', which
    now returns the WordPress marketing 404. Exercises get_user, get_companies,
    get_company, get_company_meals, get_meal and get_user_meals over `Authorization:
    Token <token>`.
- language: javascript
  registry: npm
  name: zerocater
  version: 1.1.2
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/zerocater
  repository: https://github.com/dfrankland/zerocater-node
  install: npm install zerocater
  license: MIT
  official: false
  evidence: >-
    npm maintainer and author are Dylan Frankland (dylan@frankland.io), not Zerocater;
    homepage is a personal repository outside the ZeroCater GitHub organization.
  note: Community Node client exposing a ZeroCater class with getMeals().
registries_probed:
- registry: pypi
  result: 1 first-party package (zerocater)
- registry: npm
  result: 1 community package (zerocater); no first-party @zerocater scope
- registry: rubygems
  result: none
- registry: packagist
  result: none
- registry: nuget
  result: none
- registry: maven-central
  result: none
- registry: crates.io
  result: none
- registry: pkg.go.dev
  result: none
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-08-05'
  urls:
  - url: https://pypi.org/pypi/zerocater/json
    http_status: 200
  - url: https://registry.npmjs.org/zerocater
    http_status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/ZeroCater/repos
    http_status: 200
  - url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZeroCater/PyZeroCater/master/zerocater/client.py
    http_status: 200