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parse-author

Parse an author, contributor, maintainer or other 'person' string into an object with name, email and url properties following npm conventions.

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Versions
MIT
License
No
Install Scripts
Missing
Provenance

Supply chain provenance

Status for the latest visible version.

No SLSA provenance npm registry signatures gitHead linked

Without SLSA provenance there is no cryptographic link between this tarball and the public source — the axios compromise (March 2026) relied on exactly this gap.

Maintainers

jonschlinkertslang

Keywords

authorauthorscontributorexecexpressionextractmaintainermaintainersmatchpackageparsepersonpkgreregexregexpregularsomebody

Accepted risks

Findings the reviewer chose to accept rather than block on.

SourceRuleReasonAccepted byWhen
provenance publisher-changed AI (provenance): Legitimate maintainer transition from contributor slang800 to repo owner jonschlinkert, both listed in package.json contributors. ai
publish-pattern dormant-publish AI (publish-pattern): 328-day gap explained by maintainer transition; jonschlinkert is a trusted prolific publisher with 1863 approved packages. ai
publish-pattern new-deps-added AI (publish-pattern): author-regex is jonschlinkert's own package, a natural regex extraction for this utility. ai

Versions (showing 6 of 6)

Version Deps Published
2.0.0 1 / 1
1.0.0 0 / 2
0.2.2 1 / 2
0.2.1 1 / 2
0.2.0 1 / 2
0.1.0 1 / 4

v2.0.0

2 findings
HIGH Publisher changed: slang → jonschlinkert (on 2017-03-08) provenance

This version was published by a different npm account than previous versions on 2017-03-08. This could indicate a legitimate maintainer transition or an account compromise.

LOW No provenance attestation provenance

Package was published without Sigstore provenance. Consider requesting the maintainer enable provenance via CI/CD.

v1.0.0

2 findings
LOW No provenance attestation provenance

Package was published without Sigstore provenance. Consider requesting the maintainer enable provenance via CI/CD.

INFO Publisher changed: jonschlinkert → slang (on 2016-04-14) provenance

[Accepted risk] This version was published by a different npm account than previous versions on 2016-04-14. This could indicate a legitimate maintainer transition or an account compromise.