Block Fetcher

Fetch blocks from gist and save the files

const blockfetcher = require("blockfetcher")

const gistId="https://bl.ocks.org/clemsos/009f78d9bf410295f63335419aead372".replace('https://bl.ocks.org/','')

blockfetcher.saveProject(gistId, "/tmp", "super-computers")
  .then(files => console.log(`${files.length} saved!`) )
  .catch(err =>  console.log(err.message))

Usage

saveProject(gistId, dest, folderName)

• gistId : the id from blocks or gist in the form userId/hash
• dest : destination folder (default: will save by in ./blocks)
• folderName : the name of the folder where project files will be stored (default: will make a slug from the gistId)

Returns a js Promise.

CLI

A command-line tool is also available.

./node_modules/bin/blockfetcher https://bl.ocks.org/clemsos/009f78d9bf410295f63335419aead372 -d /tmp -n lala

Help command

$ blocksfetcher -h

Usage: blocksfetcher [url] [options]

  url                 bl.ocks.org URL (required)
  --dest,-d           Destination folder (default: ./blocks)
  --name,-n           Name of the folder (default: gist hash)
  --version,-v        Print out the installed version
  --help              Show this help