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url-otpauth
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This library can be used to parse otpauth://
URIs used by Google Authenticator as defined in this
wiki page. This is the same
format commonly used in QR Code for use with Google Authenticator.
The package is available from NPM:
npm install url-otpauth
And from Bower:
bower install url-otpauth
Documentation is avaiable in the doc
folder and is available online
here.
FAQs
Parses an otpauth:// URL
The npm package url-otpauth receives a total of 296 weekly downloads. As such, url-otpauth popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that url-otpauth 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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