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get-browser-fingerprint
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Zero dependencies package exporting a single, fast (<15ms) and synchronous function which computes a browser fingerprint, without requiring any permission to the user.
Zero dependencies package exporting a single, fast (<15ms) and synchronous function which computes a browser fingerprint, without requiring any permission to the user.
Get browser fingerprint:
import getBrowserFingerprint from 'get-browser-fingerprint';
const fingerprint = getBrowserFingerprint();
console.log(fingerprint);
Options available:
hardwareOnly
(default false
): leverage only hardware info about deviceenableWebgl
(default false
): enable webgl renderer, ~4x times slower but adds another deadly powerful hardware detection layer on top of canvasdebug
: log data used to generate fingerprint to console and add canvas/webgl canvas to body to see rendered image (default false
)⚠️ Be careful: the strongest discriminating factor is canvas token which can't be computed on old devices (eg: iPhone 6), deal accordingly ⚠️
To test locally:
nvm install
yarn install
yarn test
To run example locally:
yarn http-server src -o -c-1 -p 80
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Zero dependencies package exporting a single and fast (<50ms) asynchronous function returning a browser fingerprint, without requiring any permission to the user.
The npm package get-browser-fingerprint receives a total of 4,019 weekly downloads. As such, get-browser-fingerprint popularity was classified as popular.
We found that get-browser-fingerprint demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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