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Windows-only native addon to read version info from executables.
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win-version-info

Windows-only native addon to read version info from executables. A noop on other platforms.

npm status Node version Test Standard Common Changelog

Example

const vi = require('win-version-info')
console.log(vi(process.argv[2]))
> node example "C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefox Developer Edition\firefox.exe"
{ FileVersion: '46.0.0.5903',
  LegalCopyright: '©Firefox and Mozilla Developers; available under the MPL 2 license.',
  CompanyName: 'Mozilla Corporation',
  FileDescription: 'FirefoxDeveloperEdition',
  ProductVersion: '46.0a2',
  InternalName: 'FirefoxDeveloperEdition',
  LegalTrademarks: 'Firefox is a Trademark of The Mozilla Foundation.',
  OriginalFilename: 'firefox.exe',
  ProductName: 'FirefoxDeveloperEdition',
  BuildID: '20160229004006' }

Install

With npm do:

npm install win-version-info

License

MIT. The main body of this project comes from ShowVer © Ted Peck 2002. Converting between UTF-16 and UTF-8 made possible by UTF8Conversion (Apache License 2.0) © 2011 Giovanni Dicanio.