extract_description.js
 1  module.exports = extractDescription
 2  
 3  // Extracts description from contents of a readme file in markdown format
 4  function extractDescription (d) {
 5    if (!d) return;
 6    if (d === "ERROR: No README data found!") return;
 7    // the first block of text before the first heading
 8    // that isn't the first line heading
 9    d = d.trim().split('\n')
10    for (var s = 0; d[s] && d[s].trim().match(/^(#|$)/); s ++);
11    var l = d.length
12    for (var e = s + 1; e < l && d[e].trim(); e ++);
13    return d.slice(s, e).join(' ').trim()
14  }