detect-readme-badges

detect-readme-badges

Scans a repository's readme file, searching for badges

Usage

detectReadmeBadges(readme) -> Array

Given a readme file (in string), detectReadmeBadges returns the array of badges found. Example:

const detectReadmeBadges = require('detect-readme-badges');
const badges = detectReadmeBadges(`
    ...

    > Simplified HTTP/HTTPS requests

    [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/got.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/got) [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/sindresorhus/got/badge.svg?service=github&branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/sindresorhus/got?branch=master) [![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/got.svg)](https://npmjs.com/got)

    A nicer interface to the built-in ['http'](http://nodejs.org/api/http.html) module.

    ...
`)

// badges
[
    {
        urls: {
            original: 'https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/got.svg?branch=master',
            service: 'https://api.travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/got.svg?branch=master',
            shields: 'https://img.shields.io/travis/sindresorhus/got/master.svg',
            content: 'https://img.shields.io/travis/sindresorhus/got/master.json',
        },
        info: { service: 'travis', type: 'build', modifiers: { branch: 'master' } },
    },
    {
        urls: {
            original: 'https://coveralls.io/repos/sindresorhus/got/badge.svg?branch=master',
            service: 'https://coveralls.io/repos/sindresorhus/got/badge.svg?branch=master',
            shields: 'https://img.shields.io/coveralls/sindresorhus/got/master.svg',
            content: 'https://img.shields.io/coveralls/sindresorhus/got/master.json',
        },
        info: { service: 'coveralls', type: 'coverage', modifiers: { branch: 'master' } },
    },
    {
        urls: {
            original: 'https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/got.svg',
            shields: 'https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/got.svg',
            content: 'https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/got.json' },
        info: { service: 'npm', type: 'downloads', modifiers: { type: 'dm' } },
    },
]

badge.urls

urls.original the original matched url.

urls.service the service url.

urls.shields the shields.io equivalent url.

urls.content the shields.io url to extract a json of the badge's "value".

badge.info

Information extracted from the badge url.

info.type type of the badge. Available types are build, coverage, downloads, version, dependencies and misc.

info.service is the service that provides the badge. Available services are coveralls, david, npm (shields.io or nodei.co), travis and gitter.

info.modifiers are the badge modifiers that alter the interpretation of the repo/package depending on the service.

Tests

$ npm test $ npm test-cov to get coverage report

License

Released under the MIT License.