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npm metascraper-youtube @5.52.0

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flagged 2026-07-30 10:08
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Signals fired

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typosquat 1.0 combosquat of 'metascraper'
mass_publish_burst 0.8 publisher 'kikobeats' pushed 23 packages in the last 15min on npm

Prior profile (what it deviated from)

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    "kikobeats"
  ],
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}

Evidence (package doc at flag time)

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