ed-logwatcher

Elite: Dangerous Log Watcher

Install

npm i --save ed-logwatcher

Usage

// See https://edlogs.williamblythe.info for the JSDocs
const {LogWatcher} = require('ed-logwatcher');
const DEFAULT_SAVE_DIR = require('path').join(
    require('os').homedir(),
    'Saved Games',
    'Frontier Developments',
    'Elite Dangerous'
);
const watcher = new LogWatcher(DEFAULT_SAVE_DIR, 3);
    watcher.on('error', err => {
        watcher.stop();
        console.error(err.stack || err);
        throw new Error(err.stack || err);
    });
    watcher.on('finished', () => {
    		// Watcher has read through the max files allowed, won't emit again until another entry
    		// Now would be a good time to load the data, if you are doing something like elite-journal.
    	});
    watcher.on('data', obs => {
        // Emitted for each file in max files allowed.
        obs.forEach(ob => {
            const {timestamp, event} = ob;
            console.log('\n' + timestamp, event);
         	delete ob.timestamp;
         	delete ob.event;
         	Object.keys(ob).sort().forEach(k => {
         		console.log('\t' + k, ob[k]);
         	});
        });
    });

Projects Using ed-logwatcher

• https://github.com/willyb321/elite-journal
• https://github.com/purrcat259/ed-fleet-client

Contributing

1. Fork
2. Create branch (git checkout -b my-branch)
3. Make changes
4. Commit
5. Open PR.
6. ???
7. Profit.