Collect-phone-numbers NPM

collect-phone-numbers

Given a directory of files (text or otherwise), collect-phone-numbers will parse each file in the directory, extract phone numbers, and write comma-separated values to a new file.

Note: this is something that's probably best accomplished using grep (or AWK or some other command line utility).

egrep "\b[[:digit:]]{3}(-|\s|.)?[[:digit:]]{3}(-|\s|.)?[[:digit:]]{4}\b" ./* > ./nums.txt

##Installation

npm install collect-phone-numbers

##Tests

npm run test

##Usage

Running collect-phone-numbers in a specific directory will parse each file in that directory and output a phone-numbers.csv file with phone numbers. Alternatively, collect-phone-numbers [directory of files to input] [filename to export] will parse each file in the directory provided, outputting to the filepath and name provided.

##Implementation

This project uses:

regex to parse text for patterns of ### ### #### separated by dashes, periods, or spaces, and accounting for parens around area code and plus sign for country code.
node filesystem module for readdir, readFfile, and writeFile.
the async utilities for a synchronized forEach callback (write file when done asynchronously iterating through all files in directory).
basic tests using node's core assert module