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Library to detect bots and crawlers using browser fingerprinting.
You can see it in action on this page.
Fingerprint Scanner relies on Fp-Collect to collect a browser fingerprint. Since the purpose of the library is bot detection, it doesn't detect collect unnecessary fingerprint attributes used for tracking.
npm install fpscanner
In order to use Fingerprint-Scanner your need to pass a fingerprint collected using the fp-collect library. Then, we can analyze the fingerprint with the scanner.
const scanner = require('fpScanner');
//fingerprint is the fingerprint collected with fp-collect
scannerResults = scanner.analyseFingerprint(fingerprint);
// Name of the first test
console.log(scannerResults[0].name);
// PHANTOM_UA
// Result of the test
console.log(scannerResults[0].consistent);
// Either 1 (Inconsistent), 2 (Unsure) or 3 (Consistent)
// Data related with the test
console.log(scannerResults[0].data);
// User agent of the browser
analyseFingerprint returns an array of analysisResult's objects. Each object contains the following information:
Summary of the tests used to detect bots. For more details, visit the documentation page (coming soon).
We would like to thank CrossBrowserTesting for providing us an easy way to test our scanner on different platforms to reduce false positives.
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Detect bots using fingerprinting
The npm package fpscanner receives a total of 116 weekly downloads. As such, fpscanner popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that fpscanner 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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