getmac

getmac

Get the mac address of the current machine you are on

Will run anywhere that the underlying commands are present:

• On Windows, getmac is used

• On Unix/Linux/Mac, ifconfig is used if present, otherwise ip is used

• Other environments are not supported as they provide no way of fetching the mac address.

That means:

• If you are building a server app, or a desktop app, and wanting to get the mac address of where the node.js process is run, then this will work as expected.

• If you are building a server app, this will only get the mac address of the server. There is no way to get a web browser user's mac address without installing software on their computer.

• If you are building an electron app, you can run this on the server-side then communicate it to the client side.

• This library will not run in web browsers / on the client-side / in webpack / in browserify / in angular / in react / in jQuery / in HTML. It will only run on node.js environments, which the web browser is not.

Install

NPM

• Install: npm install --save getmac
• Executable: getmac-node
• Module: require('getmac')

Editions

This package is published with the following editions:

• getmac aliases getmac/index.js which uses Editions to automatically select the correct edition for the consumers environment
• getmac/source/index.coffee is coffeescript source code with require for modules
• getmac/edition-esnext/index.js is coffeescript compiled for node.js with require for modules
• getmac/edition-node-0.10/index.js is coffeescript compiled for node.js >=0.10 with require for modules

Usage

CLI

Install globally npm install -g getmac, then run with getmac-node

API

Install locally npm install --save getmac, then use like so:

// Fetch the computer's mac address
require('getmac').getMac(function(err, macAddress){
	if (err)  throw err
	console.log(macAddress)
})

// Fetch the computer's mac address for a specfici interace
require('getmac').getMac({iface: 'eth0'}, function(err, macAddress){
	if (err)  throw err
	console.log(macAddress)
})

// Validate that an address is a mac address
if ( require('getmac').isMac("e4:ce:8f:5b:a7:fc") ) {
	console.log('valid mac')
}
else {
	console.log('invalid mac')
}

History

Discover the release history by heading on over to the HISTORY.md file.

Contribute

Discover how you can contribute by heading on over to the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Backers

Maintainers

These amazing people are maintaining this project:

• Benjamin Lupton — view contributions

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Contributors

These amazing people have contributed code to this project:

• Benjamin Lupton — view contributions
• Stephen Brown II — view contributions
• ted shroyer — view contributions
• caasi Huang — view contributions
• zboszor — view contributions
• Gustavo Costa Neves — view contributions

Discover how you can contribute by heading on over to the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

License

Unless stated otherwise all works are:

• Copyright © 2013+ Bevry Pty Ltd

and licensed under:

• MIT License