TAP-PARSER(1)

✨ TAP-PARSER ✨

okay so this is the manual page for tap-parser from User Commands, and bestie, it's literally a TAP parser for Node.js 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tap-parser — Test-Anything-Protocol parser for Node.js 🦋

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

💅 Usage:

tap-parser <options>

So here's the vibe: it parses TAP data coming in from stdin, and then it outputs the parsed result in whatever format you picked with the options ✨ The default output? That's using node's util.inspect() method. periodt. 👑

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

no cap, here's every single flag, go off:

• -j [<indent>] | --json[=<indent>] — Outputs event data as JSON with the indentation you specify (default is 2). it's giving structured data realness 💅
• -t | --tap — Outputs data as reconstituted TAP based on the parsed results 🔥
• -l | --lines — Outputs each parsed line as it is recognized by the parser. line by line by line, we love to see it 👑
• -b | --bail — Emits a Bail out! at the first failed test point encountered 🚨
• -B | --no-bail — Does not bail out at the first failed test point encountered (Default) — she's chill, she keeps going 🧘
• -f | --flat — Flattens all assertions to the top level parser 🥞
• -F | --no-flat — Does not flatten all assertions to the top level parser (Default) 🙈
• -w | --ignore-all-whitespace — Skips over blank lines outside of YAML blocks 🌸
• -o | --omit-version — Ignores the TAP version 13 or TAP version 14 line at the start of tests 🙅
• --strict — Runs the parser in strict mode 😤
• --no-strict — Does not run the parser in strict mode 😌
• -s | --silent — Does not print output, just exits success/failure based on the TAP stream. silent but deadly (in a good way) 🤫

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fr fr, that's the whole page. every flag, every default, nothing skipped. iykyk 💜

tap-parser 13.0.1 · October 2025 — mwah, that's a wrap bestie, ty for reading, slay 💖✨🎀🦋