Readme Summarizer

Summaries markdown readme files into few sentences. Get short description for any repository easily.

Installation

npm install --save readme-summarizer

Usage

Import library:

import { ReadmeSummarizer } from 'readme-summarizer';

Get readme summary from URL:

let readmeUrl = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bennymeg/ReadmeSummarizer/master/README.md";
let shortSummary = true;
 
// get readme summary asynchronously from URL
ReadmeSummarizer.fromUrl(readmeUrl, shortSummary).then((response) => {
    console.log(response);
    // prints: "Summaries markdown readme files into few sentences."
}).catch((error) => {
    console.error('Error:', error);
});

Get readme summary from text:

let readmeAsText = "#Your markdown readme text string...";
let shortSummary = false;
 
// get readme summary from text string
ReadmeSummarizer.fromText(readmeUrl, shortSummary);

Supported Environments

• 💻 Browser (including browserify / webpack based environments [such as Angular])
• 🖥 Node.js

Documentation

• 👨🏼‍💻 API,
• 👩🏼‍🏫 Examples,

• 🖋 Licence

Support

If you're having any problem, please raise an issue on GitHub and we'll be happy to help.

Contribute

• 👾 Issue Tracker,
• 📦 Source Code

Any help generifying this repository will be very much appreciated. Before submitting a pull request, please make sure that you include tests, and that jshint runs without any warnings: Download VSCode extension.

Test

Run the test suite by executing:

$ npm test

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Author: Benny Megidish.