unjar-from-url

Downloads JAR files from urls and unzipps them right away from your package.json or command line arguments

Installation

npm install unjar-from-url --save-dev if you want to use it in your project

npm install unjar-from-url --global if you want to use it globally on command line

Usage

In your project (package.json)

In your package.json:

"scripts": {
    // in case of you want to download jars after the install process
    "postinstall": "unjar-from-url"
},
// ...
"unjar-from-url-config": [
    {
        "directory": "selenium-server-standalone":
        "url": "http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.43/selenium-server-standalone-2.43.1.jar",
    }
]

Run with npm run-script unjar.

This will download and uncompress the jar files into folder node_modules/unjar-from-url/node_modules/selenium-server-standalone.

Command line (no package.json)

In your command line:

unjar-from-url \
--urls http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.43/selenium-server-standalone-2.43.1.jar  \
--download-dirs selenium-server-standalone  \
--destination-dirs=/tmp

This will download and uncompress the jar files into folder /tmp/selenium-server-standalone.

Tests

npm test

Contributing

TBD.

License

MIT