fetch-package-source

Fetch the source code of a particular version of a package published to npm.

This does not download from npm as not all files might be published there. Therefore the source might be more useful to you, for example if you want to run its test suite.

Usage

const fetchPackageSource = require('fetch-package-source')
const { tmpdir } = require('os')

const dir = `${tmpdir()}/${Date.now()}`
await fetchPackageSource(
  'https://github.com/juliangruber/browser-run',
  '1.0.0',
  dir
)
console.log(dir)

$ node example.js
/var/folders/h2/vg0v3hgn26x5gb4w64yx59zh0000gn/T/1577899257798

$ ls /var/folders/h2/vg0v3hgn26x5gb4w64yx59zh0000gn/T/1577899257798
README.md	example.js	index.js	package.json	test

Sponsors

This project is sponsored by CTO.ai, making it easy for development teams to create and share workflow automations without leaving the command line.