extract-gfm

Utilities for extracting and replacing GitHub Flavored Markdown code blocks. For example, you could easily find code blocks for a specific language and run the code through a linter.

See the example for ideas.

Install

Install with npm:

npm i extract-gfm --save-dev

Run tests

npm test

Usage

var extract = require('extract-gfm');
extract.parseBlocks('abc\n```js\nvar foo = "bar";\n```\nxyz');

Returns:

{ text: 'abc\n__CODE_BLOCK0__\nxyz',
  blocks:
   [ { lang: 'js',
       code: 'var foo = "bar";',
       block: '```js\nvar foo = "bar";\n```' } ],
  markers: [ '__CODE_BLOCK0__' ] }

API

.stripBlocks

• str {String}: Original string with gfm code blocks.
• returns: {String}

Strip code blocks from a string and replaced them with heuristic markers.

.extractBlocks

• str {String}: The string to parse.
• returns: {Array}

Return an array of all gfm code blocks found. See gfm-code-blocks for more detail.

.parseBlocks

Convenience method to make it easy to replace code blocks.

• str {String}: The string to parse.
• returns: {Object}

Returns an object with:

• text: the string stripped of code blocks, where each block is replaced with a heuristic marker.
• blocks: An array of code blocks, using the .extractBlocks() method.
• markers: An array of heuristic markers to be used for adding code blocks back.

Example

var code = require('extract-gfm');
var fs = require('fs');
var str = fs.readFileSync('README.md', 'utf8');
console.log(code.parseBlocks(str));

.injectBlocks

Used for adding code blocks back into the string after they have been modified somehow.

• str {String}: A string with heuristic markers to replace.
• object {String}: Object created by .parseBlocks()
• returns {String}: Updated string, with shiny new code blocks.

To customize how this is done, just look at the injectBlocks method and create your own based on this. .parseBlocks() really does all of the hard work.

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert, contributors.
Released under the MIT license

This file was generated by verb-cli on September 23, 2014.