ipterate

About

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

V2

The tool has now been split into 2 separate libraries: this one and toip, which is responsible for actually doing the conversion between the integers and the IP strings.

toip forms the calculation in a far more performant fashion, allowing you to iterate through more IPs faster.

Installation

npm install ipterate # if you're using npm 
yarn add ipterate # if you're using yarn
pnpm add ipterate # if you're using pnpm
bun install ipterate # if you're using bun

Usage

1. Iterate over all IPv4s

import { iterateIpV4Addresses } from "ipterate";

for (const ip of iterateIpV4Addresses({
  from: '0.0.0.0',
  to: '255.255.255.255',
})) {
  console.log(ip);
}

1. Iterate over a specific subnet

import { iterateIpV4Addresses } from "ipterate";

for (const ip of iterateIpV4Addresses('10.0.1.0/29')) {
  console.log(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

1. Iterate over all IPv6s

import { iterateIpV6Addresses } from "ipterate";

for (const ip of iterateIpV6Addresses({ from: "::0", to: "::2" })) {
  console.log(ip);
}

1. Iterate over all IPv6s

import { iterateIpV6Addresses } from "ipterate";

for (const ip of iterateIpV6Addresses({ from: "::0", to: "::2" })) {
  console.log(ip);
}

1. Iterate over all IPv6s in a subnet

import { iterateIpV6Addresses } from "ipterate";

for (const ip of iterateIpV6Addresses("2001:db8::/125")) {
  console.log(ip);
}

1. Iterate over IPv6 in their full form.

The IPv6 addresses by default are returned in their compressed form. So for instance 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 will be returned as 2001:db8::1. If you want to iterate over the full form of the IPv6 addresses, you can use the short option and set it to false

import { iterateIpV6Addresses } from "ipterate";

for (const ip of iterateIpV6Addresses("2001:db8::/125"), { short: false }) {
  console.log(ip);
}

Deprecated usage

The old interface has been temporarily backported for compatibility reasons, but it will no longer be maintained and will be completely removed in the future. The old interface provides features that are anything but single-responsibility oriented, providing various features that may or may not be useful, that have performance impact. Tracking your progress for instance sounds like a great feature for some, but is useless for most considering that there are far better ways of measuring your progress depending on your use case.

That being said, the library has been completely re-written in TypeScript. I did my best to maintain the backward compatibility here, but I guarantee nothing. Over the past 6 years since the initial release, I have become wiser, and I now understand that YAGNI is the king.

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);
});

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, it is 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
}