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.

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

npm install npm-tarball-globber --save

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))
})

npm install
npm test

• 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.

• mocha: simple, flexible, fun test framework

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