pipermail

node.js utilities for reading pipermail archives such as es-discuss

Basic Usage

var pipermail = require('pipermail');

var options = {};

//`pipermail` returns a stream of JSON objects.
//This can't be directly written to a file
var parsed = pipermail('https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/', options);

//convert the stream of json objects into a stream of JSON text seperated by new lines.
var stringified = parsed.pipe(pipermail.stringify());

//pipe to a file
stringified.pipe(require('fs').createWriteStream('res.txt'));

//compress to a file
stringified.pipe(require('zlib').createGzip())
  .pipe(require('fs').createWriteStream('res.txt.gz'));

The resulting res.txt would look something like:

{"url":"https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2006-June/003436.html","header":{"from":{"email":"[email protected]","name":"Brendan Eich"},"date":"Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:35:18 -0700","subject":"Welcome to the ECMAScript Edition 4 discussion list"},"body":"Thanks to Graydon Hoare for setting it up.\n\n/be"}
{"url":"https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2006-June/003437.html","header":{"from":{"email":"[email protected]","name":"Olav Junker Kjær"},"date":"Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:40:48 +0200","subject":"ES4 translator"},"body":"Hello,\nI'm very pleased to s the new public specs for ES4"}
{"url":"https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2006-June/003438.html","header":{"from":{"email":"[email protected]","name":"Robert Sayre"},"date":"Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:43:37 -0400","subject":"date literals"},"body":"I think the date literal should allow a trailing 'Z' to substitute for\n'+00:00'.\n\nRobert Sayre"}

I've shortened the bodies and renamed the e-mails but other than that it's the first few lines generated by the above code.

Options

• filterMonth: a function that gets the month's url as its argument and returns true or false to indicate whether the month should be included (or returns a promise if it's asynchronous)
• filterMessage: a function that gets the message's url as its argument and returns true or false to indicate whether the message should be downloaded (or returns a promise if it's asynchronous)
• months: the maximum number of months to download. If set, only the most recent n months will be downloaded.
• parallel: the maximum number of messages to download in parallel, defaults to 10
• parallelMonths: the maximum number of month index pages to download in parallel, defaults to 2
• archiveUrlRegex : the regex used to look for message archives on the index page of the pipermail /\d\d\d\d\-[a-z]+\.txt(?:\.gz)?/gi

License

MIT