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NPM targeted by malware campaign mimicking familiar library names
Socket uncovered npm malware campaign mimicking popular Node.js libraries and packages from other ecosystems; packages steal data and execute remote code.
livechecker
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Check if a YouTube or Twitch channel is streaming and get useful data
Small library to interact with the YouTube and Twitch Streaming APIs. For now you can only check if a YouTube channel or a Twitch user is streaming. In the future you should be able to interact with the complete APIs.
$ npm install livechecker --save
The full documentation is available here : http://siffreinsg.github.io/LiveChecker A fully documented example script will be available soon.
The YouTube checker returns a boolean or the same data as https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list#response The Twitch checker returns the same data as https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/streams#get-stream-by-user
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Check if a YouTube or Twitch channel is streaming and get useful data
The npm package livechecker receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, livechecker popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that livechecker demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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