npm-tarball-globber

Download files within npm packages and load them into memory

Here's what it does:

1. Fetches npm registry meadata for the given package;
2. Downloads the most recent tarball to /tmp;
3. Extracts the tarball to a directory in /tmp;
4. Synchronously loads all files that match the given glob pattern;
5. Executes given callback, passing an object with keys as filenames and values as stringified file contents.

Installation

Download node at nodejs.org and install it, if you haven't already.

npm install npm-tarball-globber --save

Usage

var getFiles = require("npm-tarball-globber")

// Get all the files in the `minimist` package
getFiles("minimist", function(err, files){
  console.log(err, Object.keys(files))
})

// Use globs to load only the files you need.
// See https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch#usage
getFiles("npm", "package/html/**/*.html", function(err, files){
  console.log(err, Object.keys(files))
})

Tests

npm install
npm test

Dependencies

• glob: a little globber
• superagent: elegant & feature rich browser / node HTTP with a fluent API
• tarball-extract: A simple tarball download and extraction lib for node.

Dev Dependencies

• mocha: simple, flexible, fun test framework

License

MIT

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