Parse a string into an array of objects with name, email and url properties following npm conventions. Useful for the authors property in package.json or for parsing an AUTHORS file into an array of authors objects.

Install with npm:

$ npm install parse-authors --save

var authors = require('parse-authors');

authors('Jon Schlinkert <[email protected]> (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)');
//=> [{name: 'Jon Schlinkert', email: '[email protected]', url: 'https://github.com/jonschlinkert'}]

authors('Jon Schlinkert <[email protected]>\nBrian Woodward (https://github.com/doowb)<');
//=>
// [
//  {name: 'Jon Schlinkert', email: '[email protected]', url: ''},
//  {name: 'Brian Woodward', email: '', url: 'https://github.com/doowb'}
// ]

Any of the properties can be used or missing:

authors()
//=> {name: '', email: '', url: ''}

authors('Jon Schlinkert (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)');
//=> [{name: 'Jon Schlinkert', email: '', url: 'https://github.com/jonschlinkert'}]

• author-regex: Regular expression for parsing an author string into an object following npm conventions. | homepage
• parse-author: Parse a string into an object with name, email and url properties following npm conventions.… more | homepage
• stringify-author: Stringify an authors object to name <email> (url). | homepage

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Generate readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install verb && npm run docs

Or, if verb is installed globally:

$ verb

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

Copyright © 2016 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license.

This file was generated by verb, v0.9.0, on March 21, 2016.