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| # read-pkg [](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/read-pkg)
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| > Read a package.json file
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| 
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| ## Why
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| 
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| - [Gracefully handles filesystem issues](https://github.com/isaacs/node-graceful-fs)
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| - [Strips UTF-8 BOM](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-bom)
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| - [Throws more helpful JSON errors](https://github.com/sindresorhus/parse-json)
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| - [Normalizes the data](https://github.com/npm/normalize-package-data#what-normalization-currently-entails)
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| 
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| ## Install
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| 
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| ```
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| $ npm install --save read-pkg
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| ```
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| 
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| ## Usage
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| 
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| ```js
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| var readPkg = require('read-pkg');
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| readPkg().then(function (pkg) {
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| 	console.log(pkg);
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| 	//=> {name: 'read-pkg', ...}
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| });
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| readPkg(__dirname).then(function (pkg) {
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| 	console.log(pkg);
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| 	//=> {name: 'read-pkg', ...}
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| });
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| readPkg(path.join('unicorn', 'package.json')).then(function (pkg) {
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| 	console.log(pkg);
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| 	//=> {name: 'read-pkg', ...}
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| });
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| ```
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| 
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| ## API
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| 
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| ### readPkg([path], [options])
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| Returns a promise that resolves to the parsed JSON.
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| ### readPkg.sync([path], [options])
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| Returns the parsed JSON.
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| 
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| #### path
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| Type: `string`  
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| Default: `.`
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| Path to a `package.json` file or its directory.
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| 
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| #### options
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| 
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| ##### normalize
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| Type: `boolean`  
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| Default: `true`
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| [Normalize](https://github.com/npm/normalize-package-data#what-normalization-currently-entails) the package data.
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| 
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| ## Related
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| - [read-pkg-up](https://github.com/sindresorhus/read-pkg-up) - Read the closest package.json file
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| - [write-pkg](https://github.com/sindresorhus/write-pkg) - Write a `package.json` file
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| - [load-json-file](https://github.com/sindresorhus/load-json-file) - Read and parse a JSON file
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| 
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| ## License
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| MIT © [Sindre Sorhus](http://sindresorhus.com)
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