captchagen

Information

Package	captchagen
Description	Captcha image generator
Node Version	>= 0.6

Dependencies

This relies on a native module called node-canvas. You will need to install cairo, so read https://github.com/learnboost/node-canvas/wiki before installing.

Usage

var captchagen = require('captchagen');

// optional object arg with keys: height, width, text, font
var captcha = captchagen.create();

captcha.text();     // Returns captcha text (randomly generated by default)
captcha.height();   // Returns captcha height (150 by default)
captcha.width();    // Returns captcha width (300 by default)
captcha.generate(); // Draws the image to the canvas

/* call `generate()` before running the below */

captcha.uri(cb);      // outputs png data-uri. works sync and async (cb is optional)
captcha.buffer(cb);   // outputs png buffer. works sync and async (cb is optional)
captcha.buffer(type); // outputs an image stream. type can be either png or jpeg (png is the default)

Middleware

The whole thing is a middleware stack. When you use .create() it uses our default settings which look like this:

captcha.use(drawBackground);
captcha.use(drawLines);
captcha.use(drawText);
captcha.use(drawLines);

To add your own look at the middle folder in lib. You take a canvas in, modify it, and output it again. Simple stuff.

LICENSE

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Fractal [e-mail]

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