ipterate

About

IpTerate is a small library that helps you iterate through all available IPs within a specific subnet.

Usage

Usage with a callback

For instance the following code

const ipterate = require('ipterate');
    
ipterate.range('10.0.1.0/29').iterate(ip => {
    console.log(`IP: ${ip}`);
});

prints out

10.0.1.0
10.0.1.1
10.0.1.2
10.0.1.3
10.0.1.4
10.0.1.5
10.0.1.6
10.0.1.7

and this one will traverse all IPs in existence:

const ipterate = require('ipterate');

ipterate.range('0.0.0.0/0').iterate(ip => {
    console.log(`IP: ${ip}`);
});

If you want to perform an asynchronous action, make sure that your delegate returns a promise and call iterateAsync instead. iterateAsync itself returns a promise and will wait for the resolution of the promise returned by your delegate, before it provides you with another IP.

const ipterate = require('ipterate');
const rp = require('request-promise');
    
ipterate.range('0.0.0.0/0').iterateAsync(ip => {
    return rp.get(ip);
});

Iteration information

Iterating through large sets of IPs might take a while. For this reason you might want to track the progress of your iteration. In the second parameter the iterate and iterateAsync provide itaration information to your delegate function.

ipterate.range('0.0.0.0/0').iterate((ip, data) => {
    console.log(`All IPs available in this subnet: ${data.allIps}`);
    console.log(`Current iteration: ${data.iteration}`); //starts from 1
    console.log(`Completion percentage: ${data.completionPercentage}`); // an integer number between 0 and 100
                                                                        // calculated based on allIps and iteration
});

Usage in a loop

Alternatively, instead of using callbacks, you can just iterate the IPs in a loop

for (let {ip, progress} of ipterate.range('10.0.1.0/29').iterate()) {
  // your stuff
}

Starting from a saved point

If you're iterating through a large number of IPs, you's likely that you will want to save your progress at some point and then continue from where you left off. For this purpose you can use the startWith() method.

for (let {ip, progress} of ipterate.range('0.0.0.0/0').startWith('10.0.1.5').iterate()) {
  // your stuff
}

Installation

npm install --save ipterate