node-spotlight

Search macOS using Spotlight.

Installing

npm install node-spotlight

Usage

spotlight(query, directory, attributes)

const spotlight = require('node-spotlight')

const results = spotlight('bvg-wlan', null, [
	'kMDItemAuthors',
	'kMDItemContentType',
	'kMDItemFSInvisible',
	'kMDItemKind',
	'kMDItemNumberOfPages',
	'kMDItemTitle',
	'kMDItemUseCount',
	'kMDItemVersion',
])
for await (const result of results) {
	console.log('result', result)
}

{
	path: '/Users/j/Downloads/bvg/bvg-wlan.pdf',
	kMDItemAuthors: ['BVG VBA-FGI Kartographie'],
	kMDItemContentType: 'com.adobe.pdf',
	kMDItemFSInvisible: false,
	kMDItemKind: 'Portable Document Format (PDF)',
	kMDItemNumberOfPages: 1,
	kMDItemTitle: 'S+U-Bahn_2901_2016_18-10_WLAN',
	kMDItemUseCount: 15,
	kMDItemVersion: '1.6'
}
// …

API

spotlight(query, dir = null, filters = [])

• query must be a string.
• dir is an optional string.
• filters is an optional array if attributes that should be filtered by.

Returns an async iterator/iterable of search results.

Contributing

If you have a question, found a bug or want to propose a feature, have a look at the issues page.