common-log-format

#common-log-format Pipe in common log format, get JSON out. Useful for converting web logs into a format more readily consumed by Javascript.

Standard log input such as:

127.0.0.1 - - [Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:24:02 GMT] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 10305 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.76.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.4 Safari/537.76.4"
127.0.0.1 - - [Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:24:08 GMT] "GET /package.json HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://localhost:8000/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.76.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.4 Safari/537.76.4"

would be converted to

{"remoteHost":"127.0.0.1","remoteLogName":"-","authUser":"-","date":"2014-06-11T16:24:02.000Z","request":"GET / HTTP/1.1","status":200,"bytes":10305}{"remoteHost":"127.0.0.1","remoteLogName":"-","authUser":"-","date":"2014-06-11T16:24:08.000Z","request":"GET /package.json HTTP/1.1","status":304,"bytes":null}

##Usage ###As a library

$ npm install common-log-format

var clf = require("common-log-format");
process.stdin.pipe(clf()).pipe(process.stdout);

###Command line This will install the clf command line tool:

$ npm install -g common-log-format

$ cat my-web-log.txt | clf
{"remoteHost":"127.0.0.1","remoteLogName":"-","authUser":"-","date":"2014-06-11T16:05:26.000Z","request":"GET /package.json HTTP/1.1","status":200,"bytes":733}