readplist

Tiny Node.js module to read any plist file.

Uses plutil which is only available on OS X.

Install

npm install readplist

Usage

var readplist = require('readplist');
var PATH = '/Applications/App\ Store.app/Contents/Info.plist';
 
readplist(PATH, function(err, plist) {
  if (err) return console.error(err);
  console.log(plist.MDItemKeywords)
});

Comparaison

module	ops/sec	XML	JSON	binary	platform
readplist	80	✓	✓	✓	darwin, node
plist.js	887	✓			any, node/browser

node benchmark.js

Test

npm install -g standard
npm test