# stringify-author [![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/stringify-author.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/js/stringify-author) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/stringify-author.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/stringify-author) > Stringify an authors object to `name (url)`. ## Install Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) ```sh $ npm i stringify-author --save ``` ## Usage ```js var stringify = require('stringify-author'); var authors = stringify({ name: 'Jon Schlinkert', email: 'jon.schlinkert@sellside.com', url: 'https://github.com/jonschlinkert' }); console.log(authors); //=> 'Jon Schlinkert (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)' ``` Any of the properties can be used or missing: ```js var authors = [ {name: 'Brian Woodward', url: 'https://github.com/doowb'}, {name: 'Jon Schlinkert', url: 'https://github.com/jonschlinkert'} ]; console.log(authors.map(stringify)); //=> [ 'Brian Woodward (https://github.com/doowb)', 'Jon Schlinkert (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)' ] ``` ## Similar or related projects * [author-regex](https://www.npmjs.com/package/author-regex): Regular expression for parsing an `author` string into an object following npm conventions. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/author-regex) * [parse-author](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-author): Parse a string into an object with `name`, `email` and `url` properties following npm conventions.… [more](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-author) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-author) * [parse-authors](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-authors): Parse a string into an array of objects with `name`, `email` and `url` properties following… [more](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-authors) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-authors) * [stringify-authors](https://www.npmjs.com/package/stringify-authors): Converts an author object or array of author objects into an array of strings. Useful… [more](https://www.npmjs.com/package/stringify-authors) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/stringify-authors) ## Running tests Install dev dependencies: ```sh $ npm i -d && npm test ``` ## Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/stringify-author/issues/new). ## Author **Jon Schlinkert** + [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) + [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ## License Copyright © 2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license. *** _This file was generated by [verb-cli](https://github.com/assemble/verb-cli) on November 22, 2015._