shapefile-fairy

Extracts files composing a shapefile from a .zip archive into a temporary directory and returns the path to the .shp file.

Install

$ npm install -g shapefile-fairy

Usage

In shell scripts

# exit 1 on failure, exit 0 on success and prints output path to stdout
$ shapefile-fairy /path/to/zipped/shapefile.zip

In JavaScript

var shpFairy = require('shapefile-fairy');

shpFairy('/path/to/zipped/shapefile.zip', function(err, output) {
  if (err) return console.error(err);
  doSomethingWith(output);
});