markdown-walker

Node.js - markdown-walker

Simple directory walker that specifically looks for markdown files.

Why?

I use Markdown files for blogging, documentation, and pretty much every type of writing that I do. I'm starting to develop more and more utilities and that incorporate markdown so I wanted a module that encapsulates the finding of markdown.

Installation

npm install --save markdown-walker

Usage

The code is very simple. But it's essentially a modification of https://github.com/daaku/nodejs-walker except that it emits markdown events when it discovers files that have any of the following extensions: .md, .markdown, .mkd.

Quick Example

var mdw = require('markdown-walker');
 
var walker = mdw('/tmp/mydir');
walker.on('markdown', function(file, stat) {
  console.log(file);
});
walker.on('end', function() {
  console.log('Done.');
});

API

constructor(dir, [options])

• dir: The directory to walk or search.
• options: Optional argument that only has one field: lastModified. lastModified can either be a Date object or a number that represents the number of milliseconds since the UNIX epoch, e.g: (new Date).getTime().

Example:

var mdw = require('markdown-walker')
var walker = mdw('/tmp', {lastModified: new Date('2013-04-01')})

events

• markdown: Emitted when a markdown file is found.
• notModified: Only emmitted when lastModified is set and it doesn't meet the condition.
• modified: Only emmitted when lastModified is set and it does meet the condition.

License

(MIT License)

Copyright 2012-2013 JP Richardson [e-mail]