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get-ssl-certificate
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npm install --save get-ssl-certificate
var sslCertficate = require('get-ssl-certificate');
sslCertificate.get('nodejs.org').then(function (certificate) {
console.log(certificate);
// certificate is a JavaScript object
console.log(certificate.issuer);
// { C: 'GB',
// ST: 'Greater Manchester',
// L: 'Salford',
// O: 'COMODO CA Limited',
// CN: 'COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA' }
console.log(certificate.valid_from)
// 'Nov 8 00:00:00 2015 GMT'
console.log(certificate.valid_to)
// 'Aug 22 23:59:59 2017 GMT'
});
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A micro-library that returns a website's SSL certificate
The npm package get-ssl-certificate receives a total of 3,732 weekly downloads. As such, get-ssl-certificate popularity was classified as popular.
We found that get-ssl-certificate 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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