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Jscrambler Client for Browser and Node.js
On your project:
npm i jscrambler --save-dev
Or globally:
npm i -g jscrambler
You may put your access and secret keys into a config file if found in these directories. Besides simplifying the command entry, this has the added benefit of not logging your Jscrambler credentials.
Here's an example of what your .jscramblerrc
file should look like:
{
"keys": {
"accessKey": "_YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_",
"secretKey": "_YOUR_SECRET_KEY_"
},
"applicationId": "_YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_",
"filesSrc": [
"/path/to/src.html",
"/path/to/src.js"
],
"filesDest": "/path/to/destDir/",
"params": [
{
"name": "stringSplitting",
"options": {
"freq": 1
}
}
],
"areSubscribersOrdered": false,
"jscramblerVersion": "5.3"
}
Please, replace the _YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_
, _YOUR_SECRET_KEY_
and _YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_
placeholders with your API credentials and Application ID. If you are having trouble finding these, please check our Getting Started page.
You can also download this file through Jscrambler's application builder. More information can be found here.
npm install -g jscrambler
Usage: jscrambler [options] <file ...>
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-a, --access-key <accessKey> Access key
-c, --config <config> Jscrambler configuration options
-H, --host <host> Hostname
-i, --application-id <id> Application ID
-o, --output-dir <dir> Output directory
-p, --port <port> Port
--basePath <path> Base Path
--protocol <protocol> Protocol (http or https)
--cafile <path> Internal certificate authority
-C, --cwd <dir> Current Working Directory
-s, --secret-key <secretKey> Secret key
-m, --source-maps <id> Download source maps
-R, --randomization-seed <seed> Set randomization seed
--instrument Instrument file(s) before start profiling. ATTENTION: previous profiling information will be deleted
--start-profiling Starts profiling (assumes an already instrumented application)
--stop-profiling Stops profiling
--code-hardening-threshold <threshold> Set code hardening file size threshold. Format: {value}{unit="b,kb,mb"}. Example: 200kb
--recommended-order <bool> Use recommended order
-W, --werror <bool> Set werror flag value (default: true)
--utc <bool> Set UTC as the request time zone. Otherwise it uses the local time zone (default: true)
--tolerate-minification <bool> Don't detect minification as malicious tampering (default: true)
--use-profiling-data <bool> (version 6.2 only) Protection should use the existing profiling data (default: true)
--profiling-data-mode <mode> (version 6.3 and above) Select profiling mode (default: automatic)
--remove-profiling-data Removes the current application profiling information
--use-app-classification <bool> (version 6.3 and above) Protection should use Application Classification metadata when protecting (default: true)
--input-symbol-table <file> (version 6.3 and above) Protection should use symbol table when protecting. (default: no file)
--output-symbol-table <id> (version 6.3 and above) Download symbol table (json)
--jscramblerVersion <version> Use a specific Jscrambler version
--debugMode Protect in debug mode
--skip-sources Prevent source files from being updated
--force-app-environment <environment> (version 7.1 and above) Override application's environment detected automatically. Possible values: node,browser,isomorphic,automatic
-h, --help output usage information
When making API requests you must pass valid secret and access keys, through the command line or by having a .jscramblerrc
file. These keys are each 40 characters long, alpha numeric and uppercase strings. You can find them in your Jscrambler web dashboard under My Profile > API Credentials
. In the examples these are shortened to _YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_
and _YOUR_SECRET_KEY_
for the sake of readability.
jscrambler -a _YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ -s _YOUR_SECRET_KEY_ -i _YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_ -o output.js input.js
jscrambler -a _YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ -s _YOUR_SECRET_KEY_ -i _YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_ -o output/ input1.js input2.js
jscrambler -a _YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ -s _YOUR_SECRET_KEY_ -i _YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_ -o output/ "lib/**/*.js"
jscrambler -c config.json
where config.json
is a file that optionally contains any of the Jscrambler options listed here, using the structure described in the RC configuration.
JavaScript projects usually have a folder structure that must be preserved in order for the application to work properly.
In order to make sure that that structure is preserved, the jscrambler
client needs to know what is the path of the root folder of your project's file structure.
We call this path the Current Working Directory (CWD). The folder structure of all the subdirectories of the paths that match the patterns passed to the jscrambler
cli will be replicated in the output folder (specified by the filesDest
parameter.)
There are three ways to define this setting:
If you use relative paths as input patterns, then the CWD is assumed to be the path on which the CLI was executed.
For example, the following command, executed in /home/user
(assuming config.js
does not define neither filesSrc
nor filesDest
):
jscrambler --config config.js -o out/ project/dist/*.js
will output the protected files as /home/user/out/project/dist/<filename>.js
.
If you use absolute paths as input patterns, then the CWD is assumed to be the root of the filesystem (/
).
For example, changing the previous command to use an absolute path:
jscrambler --config config.js -o out/ /home/user/project/dist/*.js
results in the files being output to /home/user/out/home/user/project/dist/<filename>.js
To change this behaviour, you can use the --cwd
option to explicitly set the CWD:
jscrambler --config config.js --cwd /home/user -o out/ /home/user/project/dist/*.js
which results in the files being output to /home/user/out/project/dist/<filename>.js
By default, Jscrambler will not protect your application when errors occur in some or all of your files. For example: if your app have 5 files and one of them has syntax errors, Jscrambler will not protect any of your files. To override this behavior you must set the werror
flag to false
.
Any error/warning will make the protection fail.
There are two possible types of errors:
Syntax errors
Code
function a[] {
return
}
Output
Global protection errors:
- Errors ocurred while parsing
Application sources errors:
[
{
"filename": "index.js",
"message": "SyntaxError: 'return' outside of function (1:0)",
"line": 1,
"column": null,
"fatal": true
}
]
Protection failed. For more information visit: https://app.jscrambler.com.
Errors parsing jscrambler code annotations
Code
//@jscrambler define __something
function test() {
return true;
}
test();
//@jscrambler [define xxxxx]
function test1() {
return false;
}
test1();
Output
Global protection errors:
- Failed to protect any source file
Application sources errors:
[
{
"filename": "index.js",
"message": "[Annotation Error] Expected \" \" or [a-z]i but \"_\" found.",
"line": 1,
"column": 21,
"fatal": true
},
{
"filename": "index.js",
"message": "[Annotation Error] Expected \" \", \"define\", \"disable\", \"enable\", \"global\", \"order\" or \"target\" but \"[\" found.",
"line": 8,
"column": 13,
"fatal": true
},
{
"filename": "index.js",
"message": "Parsing errors on annotations",
"line": null,
"column": null,
"fatal": true
}
]
Protection failed. For more information visit: https://app.jscrambler.com.
If your requests need to go through a proxy, there is an option where you can specify the ip address, port and authentication credentials.
{
proxy: {
host: '',
port: 1234,
auth: {
username: '',
password: ''
}
}
}
jscrambler --recommended-order false input1.js -o output/
To enable:
jscrambler --recommended-order true input1.js -o output/
Note: This option was introduced in the version 6.3 and should be used instead of use-profiling-data which is deprecated.
The profiling-data-mode option can be set to three different modes:
The following behaviour:
jscrambler --profiling-data-mode off ...
Has the same effect as:
jscrambler --use-profiling-data false ...
--instrument
)Instrument is used when you want to Profile your application. It is a similar process as protecting your application, but it will just instrument your application so that we can collect some data about how it runs. When you instrument an application, jscrambler
will output the instrumented version of that application to the specified file/directory. Check our documentation for more detailed information.
NOTE: When you run this command, the existing profiling information will be deleted (if any).
WARNING: DO NOT SEND THIS CODE TO PRODUCTION AS IT IS NOT PROTECTED
Jscrambler can import symbol tables to ensure certain global variables and object properties have specific names.
These symbol tables can be passed using the --input-symbol-table <file>
option, or with the inputSymbolTable
option in the configuration file.
These files follow the schema used by uglifyjs@^3
:
{
"vars": {
"props": {
"$globalName": "transformedName"
}
},
"props": {
"props": {
"$propertyName": "transformedName"
}
}
}
Similarly, the resulting symbol table can be obtained using the --output-symbol-table <protectionId>
option.
NOTE: It only makes sense to use symbol tables on protections that use the identifiers renaming parameter.
npm install jscrambler
var jscrambler = require('jscrambler').default;
jscrambler.protectAndDownload({
keys: {
accessKey: '_YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_',
secretKey: '_YOUR_SECRET_KEY_'
},
host: 'api4.jscrambler.com',
port: 443,
applicationId: '_YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_',
filesSrc: [
'/path/to/src/*.html',
'/path/to/src/*.js'
],
filesDest: '/path/to/destDir/',
params: [
{
'name': 'whitespaceRemoval'
},
{
'name': 'duplicateLiteralsRemoval'
}
]
})
.then(function () {
console.log('All done!');
})
.catch(function (err) {
console.error(err);
});
More detailed informations can be found here.
Please refer to docs for more information.
FAQs
Jscrambler API client.
The npm package jscrambler receives a total of 4,788 weekly downloads. As such, jscrambler popularity was classified as popular.
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