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readme-getter

v2.0.0

Published

A module for fetching README html from npm modules.

Downloads

30

Readme

#Readme-Getter

This module will return the HTML of an npm README, and return it via callback. To use, just initialize with a reference to either the request module or browser-request if you're working in the browser. From there, call .getReadme() with the module name and a callback.

var request = require('browser-request'); // If browser-side code for browserify.
var request = require('request'); // If server-side node code.
var readmeGetter = require('readme-getter')(request);

readmeGetter.getReadme(moduleName, function(er, readme){
	if(!er) console.log("Readme for %s is:\n %s", moduleName, readme);
});