netrc-reader

What?

This is a small utility to read and parse credentials from the .netrc file.

Why?

Because using passwords on the commandline is bad. Baking passwords into scripts is worse. And all the other utilities had bugs.

How do you use it?

import { NetRC } from 'netrc-reader';


async function getNetRCCredentials() {
   const netrc = new NetRC();

   await netrc.load();

   const machine = netrc.getConfig('example.com');

   if (!(machine && machine.login && machine.password)) {
      throw new Error(`No matching credentials found in .netrc for machine name: example.com`);
   }

   return {
      login: machine.login,
      password: machine.password,
   };
}

License

This software is released under the MIT license. See the license file for more details.