Update-contributors NPM

update-contributors

Update contributors property in package.json with current github contributors.

CLI

$ npm install -g update-contributors

After globably installing, run update-contrib at the commandline from a repository. This will add any contributors found on github to the contributors array inside package.json.

Warning the repository property needs to be in the package.json following one of the github formats found in the npm docs

$ update-contrib

Update

When installed globally, update-contributors will work with update and run automatically.

$ update

Usage

Install with npm

$ npm i update-contributors --save

var update = require('update-contributors');

API

update

Pulldown github contributors and update the contributors property in the provided package.json object.

Params

pkg {Object}: Object representing the package.json to update.
options {Object}: Options to use for github authentication.
options.creds {Object}: Github credentials. May be a token or a username and password. If execuled ask-for-github-auth will be used.
options.stringify {Boolean}: When set to false the contributors will be objects in the contributors array. Defaults to true.
cb {Function}: Callback function that will get an err when an error happens or a results with the updated package.json object.

Example

var pkg = require('./package.json');
update(pkg, function (err, results) {
  if (err) return console.error(err);
  console.log(reults);
  //=> updated package.json object
});

Related projects

github-base: Base methods for creating node.js apps that work with the GitHub API. | homepage
github-contributors: Generate a markdown or JSON list of contributors for a project using the GitHub API. | homepage
stringify-author: Stringify an authors object to name <email> (url). | homepage