diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 631bc42..460e6d9 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Generated by roxygen2 (4.0.2): do not edit by hand
 
 export(cran_downloads)
+export(cran_top_downloads)
 importFrom(httr,GET)
 importFrom(httr,content)
 importFrom(jsonlite,fromJSON)
diff --git a/R/cranlogs.R b/R/cranlogs.R
index d083b7e..7555fce 100644
--- a/R/cranlogs.R
+++ b/R/cranlogs.R
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
 #' @importFrom jsonlite fromJSON
 NULL
 
-url <- "http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/downloads/daily/"
+base_url  <- "http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/"
+daily_url <- paste0(base_url, "downloads/daily/")
+top_url   <- paste0(base_url, "top/")
 
 #' Daily package downloads from the RStudio CRAN mirror
 #'
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ url <- "http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/downloads/daily/"
 #'   \item \code{date} Day of the downloads, it is a Date object.
 #'   \item \code{count} Download count.
 #'
+#' @family CRAN downloads
 #' @export
 #' @examples
 #'
@@ -65,7 +68,7 @@ cran_downloads <- function(packages = NULL,
     packages <- paste0("/", packages)
   }
 
-  r <- fromJSON(content(GET(paste0(url, interval, packages)), as = "text"),
+  r <- fromJSON(content(GET(paste0(daily_url, interval, packages)), as = "text"),
                 simplifyVector = FALSE)
 
   if ("error" %in% names(r) && r$error == "Invalid query") {
@@ -111,3 +114,42 @@ fill_in_dates <- function(df, start, end) {
   }
   df
 }
+
+#' Top downloaded packages from the RStudio CRAN mirror
+#'
+#' @param when \code{last_day}, \code{last_week} or \code{last_month}.
+#' @return A data frame with columns: \code{rank}, \code{package},
+#'   \code{count}, \code{from}, \code{to}.
+#'
+#' @family CRAN downloads
+#' @export
+#' @examples
+#'
+#' ## Default is last day
+#' cran_top_downloads()
+#'
+#' ## Last week instead
+#'cran_top_downloads(when = "last-week")
+
+cran_top_downloads <- function(when = c("last-day", "last-week",
+                                 "last-month"), count = 10) {
+
+  when <- match.arg(when)
+  r <- fromJSON(content(GET(paste0(top_url, when, '/', count)), as = "text"),
+                simplifyVector = FALSE)
+
+  df <- data.frame(
+    stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
+    rank = seq_along(r$downloads),
+    package = vapply(r$downloads, "[[", "", "package"),
+    count = as.integer(vapply(r$downloads, "[[", "", "downloads")),
+    from = as.Date(r$start),
+    to = as.Date(r$end)
+  )
+
+  if (nrow(df) != count) {
+    warning("Requested ", count, " packages, returned only ", nrow(df))
+  }
+
+  df
+}
diff --git a/man/cran_downloads.Rd b/man/cran_downloads.Rd
index 558995a..d34b843 100644
--- a/man/cran_downloads.Rd
+++ b/man/cran_downloads.Rd
@@ -45,4 +45,7 @@ cran_downloads(from = "2014-06-30", to = "2014-08-08")
 ## Multiple packages
 cran_downloads(packages = c("ggplot2", "plyr", "dplyr"))
 }
+\seealso{
+Other CRAN.downloads: \code{\link{cran_top_downloads}}
+}
 
diff --git a/man/cran_top_downloads.Rd b/man/cran_top_downloads.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64d3ce3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/cran_top_downloads.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.1): do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/cranlogs.R
+\name{cran_top_downloads}
+\alias{cran_top_downloads}
+\title{Top downloaded packages from the RStudio CRAN mirror}
+\usage{
+cran_top_downloads(when = c("last-day", "last-week", "last-month"),
+  count = 10)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{when}{\code{last_day}, \code{last_week} or \code{last_month}.}
+}
+\value{
+A data frame with columns: \code{rank}, \code{package},
+  \code{count}, \code{from}, \code{to}.
+}
+\description{
+Top downloaded packages from the RStudio CRAN mirror
+}
+\examples{
+## Default is last day
+cran_top_downloads()
+
+## Last week instead
+cran_top_downloads(when = "last-week")
+}
+\seealso{
+Other CRAN.downloads: \code{\link{cran_downloads}}
+}
+