The get-stdin package is a simple utility that allows you to easily read stdin as a string or buffer in Node.js. It's useful for command-line tools that need to process input piped to them from the command line.
Read stdin as a string
This feature allows you to read the standard input (stdin) as a string. It returns a promise that resolves with the entire input when the stdin stream ends.
const getStdin = require('get-stdin');
getStdin().then(input => {
console.log(input);
});Read stdin as a buffer
This feature allows you to read the standard input (stdin) as a buffer. It returns a promise that resolves with the entire input as a buffer when the stdin stream ends.
const getStdin = require('get-stdin');
getStdin.buffer().then(input => {
console.log(input);
});The raw-body package is similar to get-stdin but is more focused on parsing HTTP request bodies and provides more options for limiting size, setting character encoding, and handling errors.
Concat-stream is a writable stream that concatenates all the data from a stream and calls a callback with the result. It can be used in a similar way to get-stdin for collecting stream data, but it is not limited to stdin and does not return a promise.
Get-stream is a utility that turns a stream into a string or buffer. It is very similar to get-stdin but works with any stream, not just stdin, and offers more options for handling the stream data.
Get stdin as a string or buffer
$ npm install get-stdin
// example.js
import getStdin from 'get-stdin';
console.log(await getStdin());
//=> 'unicorns'
$ echo unicorns | node example.js
unicorns
Both methods returns a promise that is resolved when the end event fires on the stdin stream, indicating that there is no more data to be read.
Get stdin as a string.
In a TTY context, a promise that resolves to an empty string is returned.
Get stdin as a Buffer.
In a TTY context, a promise that resolves to an empty Buffer is returned.
FAQs
Get stdin as a string or buffer
The npm package get-stdin receives a total of 13,012,372 weekly downloads. As such, get-stdin popularity was classified as popular.
We found that get-stdin demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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