lwtlab-node-mac-app-icon v0.0.1

node-mac-app-icon

Get App icons by pid on macOS in NodeJS. Returns a Buffer representation of the App's icon data.

The node source uses a Swift binary to fetch the icons so it's pretty fast.

Returning a Buffer is inspired by sindresorhus/file-icon.

Install

$ npm install node-mac-app-icon --save

Functions

Typedefs

getAppIconByPid(pid, opts) ⇒ Promise.<Buffer>

Find an icon for a running application (by it's PID)

Kind: global function Returns: Promise.<Buffer> - Buffer containing image data

Example

const { getAppIconByPid } = require('node-mac-app-icon');

getAppIconByPid(814, { size: 32 }).then(res => {
  console.log(res); // res is a Buffer
});

getAppIconListByPid(pidArray, opts) ⇒ Promise.<Array.<ListResult>>

Find icons for a list of running apps (by their PIDs)

Kind: global function Returns: Promise.<Array.<ListResult>> - Buffer containing image data

Example

const { getAppIconListByPid } = require('node-mac-app-icon');

getAppIconListByPid([814, 20134, 503], { size: 512 }).then(res => {
  console.log(res); // array of { pid: ..., icon: ... }
});

Options : Object

Kind: global typedef Properties

ListOptions : Object

Kind: global typedef Properties

ListResult : Object

Kind: global typedef Properties

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License