A Gedcom file reader written in Typescript. See the documentation.
- Tolerant parsing
- Character encoding detection (ASCII, CP1252, UTF-8, UTF-16, CP850, and more)
- Good effort of parsing and interpreting non-standard data
- Near full specification coverage
- Mostly Gedcom 5.5.5 compliant while being as much backward compatible as possible
- Parser for dates in any standard calendars
- Unopinionated API
- We provide the API, but the user has full control over the interpretation of the data
- It's also possible to not use the API, in which case it can be shaken off the tree
- Strongly typed
- Zero dependencies; compatible on browser and Node.js
- Less than
20kBgzipped
- Less than
- ...and more:
- Conversion of dates
- Serialization-friendly
- Progress tracking for larger files
npm install read-gedcom
import { readGedcom } from 'read-gedcom';
const promise = fetch('https://mon.arbre.app/gedcoms/royal92.ged')
.then(r => r.arrayBuffer())
.then(readGedcom);
promise.then(gedcom => {
console.log(gedcom.getHeader().toString());
});Or, if you simply want to include it as a javascript file, this is also possible:
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/read-gedcom/dist/read-gedcom.min.js"></script>
<script>
const promise = fetch('https://mon.arbre.app/gedcoms/royal92.ged')
.then(r => r.arrayBuffer())
.then(Gedcom.readGedcom);
promise.then(gedcom => {
console.log(gedcom.getHeader().toString());
});
</script>A Gedcom file isn't parsed correctly? Please open a ticket!
Also make sure to attach a zipped version of the bogus Gedcom file. If you don't want to publicly share the file, you may send it to this email address; we will create a minimal reproducible example based on what you sent us, which can be safely shared.