Stop bower from asking for statistics when installing

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I'm trying to set up an automated package build for an app which uses bower. When it gets to bower install in the postinstall, bower prompts:

[?] May bower anonymously report usage statistics to improve the tool over time? (Y/n)

This is screwing up the automated scripts. I could write an expect script to deal with this but I'd rather not if I don't have to. Is there a way to get it to shut up?

It's being discussed here: https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/1102 — afj176, Mar 15 '14 at 18:52
I've got the same problem, but I can't type Y or N to answer the question in PowerCmd, or in the native windows command prompt. Anyone else have this problem? Or should this be a new question? — mtpultz, Jun 23 '14 at 04:31

score 62 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 15:40

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As was noted in a comment, this was raised as an issue at github. At the end of that issue there's reference to a minor note at the end of the CHANGELOG comments:

NOTE: It's advisable that users use --config.interactive=false on automated scripts.

answered Mar 25 '14 at 15:40

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Would be helpful if they actually added that to the bower --help documentation! – Richard Connamacher Mar 29 '14 at 00:47
so I think this disables stats reporting? [PR] Bypass Bower interaction, it's hanging the deploy script #108 https://github.com/genesis/wordpress/pull/108 – user1106405 Jun 11 '14 at 09:12

blueyed · Answer 2 · 2014-08-09T20:43:26.633

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You can create a ~/.bowerrc file, which is useful when using bower to install components in a Docker environment:

{
  "interactive": false
}

Another option is setting an environment variable (source):

export CI=true

edited Aug 09 '14 at 20:43

answered Apr 23 '14 at 18:04

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The problem on using this on the bowerrc is that also you wont have a prompt whenever you install something and you need to resolve a conflict with versions for example. – fernandopasik Aug 08 '14 at 03:20

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 22 '15 at 13:33

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It seems that you could use

bower --config.analytics=false install

to disable only Analytics question.

@see https://github.com/bower/bower/pull/1470

answered Jul 22 '15 at 13:33

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Better answer than the first one :) – Anthony O. Dec 10 '15 at 10:10
That is exactly my user case and solves my problem. Thank you for sharing! – Gianluca Casati Jan 16 '16 at 20:32

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 17 '14 at 18:37

In addition to the existing answers, note that when you are running bower from grunt (e.g. with grunt bower-install-simple, you'll have to add this not into any .bowerrc file, but into the Gruntfile.js. I recently added this line to prevent our CI getting stuck due to unresolvable dependencies:

 grunt.initConfig({
     ...,
     /**
      * Downloads and installs library dependencies via bower
      * defined in bower.json.
      */
     'bower-install-simple': {
         options: {
             ...,
+            interactive: false
         }
     }
 });

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 28 '16 at 02:02

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General way to bypass input for most commands: yes.

yes | bower install
yes | grunt build

answered Oct 28 '16 at 02:02

Justin

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