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#Captcha PNG generator A numeric captcha generator for Node.js
##Features
##Examples
/**
* Captcha PNG img generator
* @Author: George Chan
* @Email: gchan@21cn.com
* @Version: 1.0
* @Date: 2013-08-18
* @license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php BSD License
*/
var http = require('http');
var captchapng = require('captchapng');
http.createServer(function (request, response) {
if(request.url == '/captcha.png') {
var p = new captchapng(80,30,parseInt(Math.random()*9000+1000)); // width,height,numeric captcha
p.color(0, 0, 0, 0); // First color: background (red, green, blue, alpha)
p.color(80, 80, 80, 255); // Second color: paint (red, green, blue, alpha)
var img = p.getBase64();
var imgbase64 = new Buffer(img,'base64');
response.writeHead(200, {
'Content-Type': 'image/png'
});
response.end(imgbase64);
} else response.end('');
}).listen(8181);
console.log('Web server started.\n http:\\\\127.0.0.1:8181\\captcha.png');
FAQs
A numeric captcha generator for Node.js
The npm package captchapng receives a total of 1,182 weekly downloads. As such, captchapng popularity was classified as popular.
We found that captchapng demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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