yals

(y)et (a)nother (l)icense (s)canner is a KISS CLI utility to generate a license report of a node_modules directory.

Quick Start

Download a release here. Then run in the directory of your JavaScript application.

yals ./node_modules

What it does

yals scans through your node_modules directory to summarize the name, repository and license field from the package.json.

Example Report

You can look at OptiKey-BoardLayout's report generated by yals.

Why not one of the existing ones?

• fossa licenses generates its report using a proprietary backend that also produces this error for me

WARNING Could not get OrganizationID while constructing locator
ERROR Unable to find licenses for project custom+$<redacted>:: could not send API HTTP request: Get https://app.fossa.com/api/revisions/custom+%!F(MISSING)$<redacted>/dependencies?generate_attribution=true&include_license_text=true: unexpected EOF

• ScanCode requries various setup steps / doesn't feature a simple binary one can just run