@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs

What is @fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs?

@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs is a JavaScript library that provides a way to uniquely identify users based on their browser and device characteristics. It is commonly used for fraud prevention, user authentication, and personalization.

What are @fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs's main functionalities?

Generate a Visitor Identifier

This feature allows you to generate a unique identifier for a visitor based on their browser and device characteristics. The code sample demonstrates how to load the FingerprintJS library, generate a visitor identifier, and log it to the console.

const FingerprintJS = require('@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs');

FingerprintJS.load().then(fp => {
  fp.get().then(result => {
    const visitorId = result.visitorId;
    console.log(visitorId);
  });
});

Get Detailed Visitor Data

This feature provides detailed information about the visitor's browser and device characteristics. The code sample shows how to access and log the detailed components of the visitor's fingerprint.

const FingerprintJS = require('@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs');

FingerprintJS.load().then(fp => {
  fp.get().then(result => {
    const components = result.components;
    console.log(components);
  });
});

Other packages similar to @fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs

clientjs

ClientJS is a JavaScript library for generating a client-side fingerprint based on browser and device characteristics. It offers similar functionality to @fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs but may not be as comprehensive in terms of the data it collects and analyzes.

fingerprintjs2

FingerprintJS2 is an older version of the FingerprintJS library. It provides similar functionality for generating unique visitor identifiers but lacks some of the newer features and improvements found in @fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs.

ua-parser-js

UA-Parser-JS is a JavaScript library for parsing user-agent strings to identify browser, engine, OS, CPU, and device type/model. While it does not generate a unique visitor identifier, it provides detailed information about the user's environment, which can be used in conjunction with other libraries for fingerprinting.

README

Fingerprintjs2

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Installation

• CDN: //cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fingerprintjs2@<VERSION>/dist/fingerprint2.min.js or https://cdnjs.com/libraries/fingerprintjs2
• Bower: bower install fingerprintjs2
• NPM: npm install fingerprintjs2
• Yarn: yarn add fingerprintjs2

Usage

if (window.requestIdleCallback) {
    requestIdleCallback(function () {
        Fingerprint2.get(function (components) {
          console.log(components) // an array of components: {key: ..., value: ...}
        })
    })
} else {
    setTimeout(function () {
        Fingerprint2.get(function (components) {
          console.log(components) // an array of components: {key: ..., value: ...}
        })  
    }, 500)
}

Note: You should not run fingerprinting directly on or after page load. Rather, delay it for a few milliseconds with setTimeout or requestIdleCallback to ensure consistent fingerprints. See #307, #254, and others.

On my machine (MBP 2013 Core i5) + Chrome 46 the default FP process takes about 80-100ms. If you use extendedJsFonts option this time will increase up to 2000ms (cold font cache).

To speed up fingerprint computation, you can exclude font detection (~ 40ms), canvas fingerprint (~ 10ms), WebGL fingerprint (~ 35 ms), and Audio fingerprint (~30 ms).

Options

You choose which components to include in the fingerprint, and configure some other stuff. Example:

var options = {fonts: {extendedJsFonts: true}, excludes: {userAgent: true}}

For the default options, please see the source code (look for var defaultOptions = {).

fonts.extendedJsFonts

By default, JS font detection will only detect up to 65 installed fonts. If you want to improve the font detection, you can pass extendedJsFonts: true option. This will increase the number of detectable fonts to ~500.

Note that this option increases fingerprint duration from about 80-100ms to up to 2000ms (cold font cache). It can incur even more overhead on mobile Firefox browsers, which is much slower in font detection, so use it with caution on mobile devices.

fonts.userDefinedFonts

Specifies an array of user-defined fonts to increase font fingerprint entropy even more.

While hundreds of the most popular fonts are included in the extended font list, you may wish to increase the entropy of the font fingerprint by specifying the userDefinedFonts option as an array of font names, but make sure to call the Fingerprint function after the page load, and not before, otherwise font detection might not work properly and in a result returned hash might be different every time you reloaded the page.

Fingerprint2.get({
  userDefinedFonts: ["Nimbus Mono", "Junicode", "Presto"]
}, function(components) {

})

fonts.swfContainerId

Specifies the dom element ID to be used for swf embedding (flash fonts)

fonts.swfPath

Specifies the path to the FontList.swf (flash fonts)

screen.detectScreenOrientation (default: true)

plugins.sortPluginsFor (default: [/palemoon/i])

Some browsers randomise plugin order. You can give a list of user agent regexes for which plugins should be sorted.

plugins.excludeIE

Skip IE plugin enumeration/detection

audio.excludeIOS11 (default: true)

iOS 11 prevents audio fingerprinting unless started from a user interaction (screen tap), preventing the fingerprinting process from finishing. If you're sure you start fingerprinting from a user interaction event handler, you may enable audio fingerprinting on iOS 11.

audio.timeout default 1000

maximum time allowed for 'audio' component

fontsFlash

To use Flash font enumeration, make sure you have swfobject available. If you don't, the library will skip the Flash part entirely.

extraComponents

Arrays of extra components to include.

var options = {
    extraComponents : [
        {key: 'customKey', getData: function (done, options) {
            done('infos ...')
        }
    ]
}

preprocessor

Function that is called with each component value that may be used to modify component values before computing the fingerprint. For example: strip browser version from user agent.

Fingerprint2.get({
  preprocessor: function(key, value) {
    if (key == "user_agent") {
      var parser = new UAParser(value); // https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js
      var userAgentMinusVersion = parser.getOS().name + ' ' + parser.getBrowser().name
      return userAgentMinusVersion
    }
    return value
  }
},function(components) {
  // user_agent component will contain string processed with our function. For example: Windows Chrome
});

excludes

An object of with components keys to exclude. Empty object to include everything. By default most of the components are included (please see the source code for details).

var options = {
    excludes: {userAgent: true, language: true}
}

To see a list of possible excludes, please see the source code (look for var components = [).

Constants

The constants used for unavailable, error'd, or excluded components' values.

var options = {
    NOT_AVAILABLE: 'not available',
    ERROR: 'error',
    EXCLUDED: 'excluded',
}

• NOT_AVAILABLE: Component value if the browser doesn't support the API the component uses (e.g. enumerateDevices) or the browser doesn't provide a useful value (e.g. deviceMemory).
• ERROR: The component function threw an error.
• EXCLUDED: The component was excluded.

Upgrade guide from 1.8.2 to 2.0.0

Backwards compatibility mode

Fingerprintjs2 v2.0 provides a v1.8 compatibility wrapper that keeps user's fingerprints identical to the ones generated with v1.8. Note that we will drop this wrapper at some point.

Note that the options parameter must be provided in v2.0 syntax.

// options must be provided in v2.0 syntax
Fingerprint2.getV18(options, function (result, components) {
  // result is murmur hash fingerprint
  // components is array of {key: 'foo', value: 'component value'}
})

get and getPromise

Fingerprint2.get is now a static function. It replaces new Fingerprint2().get. It will not hash the result by default anymore.

var options = {}
Fingerprint2.get(options, function (components) {
  // components is array of {key: 'foo', value: 'component value'}
    ...
})

// or

Fingerprint2.getPromise(options).then(function (components) {
  // components is array of {key: 'foo', value: 'component value'}
    ...
})

Fingerprint2 ships with the murmur hash function that you may use to create a hash fingerprint:

Fingerprint2.get(options, function (components) {
    var values = components.map(function (component) { return component.value })
    var murmur = Fingerprint2.x64hash128(values.join(''), 31)
})

Excludes

Before exclusion was done by putting an individual excludes like excludeTouchSupport: true in the options.

To exclude a component now, put its key inside the excludes object in options

var options = {excludes: {touchSupport: true}}

Custom Entropy Function

options.customEntropyFunction and customKey have been replaced with a extension friendly, stable alternative. The new contract allows for async sources as well. See below for component definition. options.extraComponents should contain an array with custom components.

var options = {
    extraComponents : [
        {key: 'customKey', getData: function (done, options) {
            done('infos ...')
        }
    ]
}

jsfonts and flashFonts

jsfonts has been renamed into fonts. fontsFlash and fonts are now separate components. fontsFlash is excluded by default.

Consistent names for components

Components keys are now all camelCase. Example 'user_agent' -> 'userAgent'

Fingerprint2.x64hash128

Fingerprint2.x64hash128 static function is now exposed

Error constants are exposed and configurable

Fingerprint2.NOT_AVAILABLE = 'not available'
Fingerprint2.ERROR = 'error'
Fingerprint2.EXCLUDED = 'excluded'

audioTimeout

audioTimeout is an option, default 1000ms

Development

Component

A components is an object with at least key and getData keys, example:

{key: 'user_agent', getData: UserAgent, pauseBefore: false}

getData value is the components function.

Component function

A components function takes done as first argument, and options as an optional second argument. It must call done exactly once with a value that can be cast to a String. It must wrap all unreachable code (setTimeout, requestAnimationFrame, etc) in its own try catch, it should use catch as an opportunity to give a unique value to done

function (done, options) {
  done(navigator.userAgent)
}

Tests

Unit tests are in specs/specs.js

npm test to launch the tests, it requires phanomjs install

To run the tests in the browser, launch spec_runner.html

Other

Future development

Many more fingerprinting sources will be implemented, such as (in no particular order)

• Multi-monitor detection,
• Internal HashTable implementation detection
• WebRTC fingerprinting
• Math constants
• Accessibility fingerprinting
• Camera information
• DRM support
• Accelerometer support
• Virtual keyboards
• List of supported gestures (for touch-enabled devices)
• Pixel density
• Video and audio codecs availability

To recompile the FontList.swf file:

• Download Adobe Flex SDK
• Unzip it, add the bin/ directory to your $PATH (mxmlc binary should be in path)
• Run make

Talk about the library (in Russian) on FrontEnd Conf 2015

https://player.vimeo.com/video/151208427

License: MIT or Apache, whichever you prefer.