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.
npm install --global getmacgetmac-nodenpm install --save getmacnpx getmac-noderequire('getmac')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 environmentgetmac/source/index.coffee is coffeescript source code with require for modulesgetmac/edition-esnext/index.js is coffeescript compiled for node.js with require for modulesgetmac/edition-node-0.10/index.js is coffeescript compiled for node.js 0.10 with require for modulesInstall globally npm install -g getmac, then run with getmac-node
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')
}
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v1.5.0 2019 November 13
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Get the MAC address of the current machine you are on.
The npm package getmac receives a total of 50,245 weekly downloads. As such, getmac popularity was classified as popular.
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