Package Health Score

71 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Recognized
maintenance
Sustainable
community
Sustainable

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
6.6.0	\|	12/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 1 M 0 L
6.5.0	\|	12/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 1 M 0 L
5.21.0	\|	11/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 1 M 0 L
5.20.0	\|	07/2021	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.4.0	\|	12/2019		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

Artistic-2.0

Non-Permissive License

We noticed that this project uses a license which requires less permissive conditions such as disclosing the source code, stating changes or redistributing the source under the same license. It is advised to further consult the license terms before use.

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Recognized

Weekly Downloads (82,983)

GitHub Stars: 358
Forks: 54
Contributors: 10

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package getmac receives a total of 82,983 downloads a week. As such, we scored getmac popularity level to be Recognized.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package getmac, we found that it has been starred 358 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Sustainable

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 10
Funding: Yes

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 5
Open PR: 2
Last Release: 11 months ago
Last Commit: 1 month ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of getmac based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

We found that getmac demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=8

Age: 12 years
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 122
Install Size: 42.8 kB
Dist-tags: 2
# of Files: 20
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: Yes

getmac has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

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if ('IPv4' !== iface.family || iface.internal !== false) {
      // skip over internal (i.e. 127.0.0.1) and non-ipv4 addresses
      return;
    }
    if (alias &gt;= 1) {
      // this single interface has multiple ipv4 addresses
      console.log(ifname + ':' + alias, iface.address);
    } else {
      // this interface has only one ipv4 adress
      console.log(ifname, iface.address);
    }
    ++alias;
  });
});

require('getmac').getMac(function(err,macAddress){
  if (err)  throw err
  mac = macAddress;
});

fs.stat('./device_info.json', function(err, stat) {
  if(err == null) {
    console.log('found device_info.json');
    var device_info = require("./device_info.json");
    device_info = JSON.parse(device_info);
    for(var i = 0; i &lt; device_info.length; i++) {
      mac = device_info[i].mac;
      token = device_info[i].token;
      //io_relay.emit('token',{token:token});    
      console.log(mac + " | " + token);
    }
  } else if(err.code == 'ENOENT') {

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getmac

Get the MAC address of the current machine you are on.

This library will not run in web browsers / on the client-side / in webpack / in browserify / in angular / in react / in jQuery / in HTML. It will only run on Node.js environments, which the web browser is not.

Usage

Complete API Documentation.

CLI

Install globally npm install -g getmac, then run with getmac-node

API

Install locally npm install --save getmac, then use like so:

import getMAC, { isMAC } from 'getmac'

// Fetch the computer's MAC address
console.log(getMAC())

// Fetch the computer's MAC address for a specific interface
console.log(getMAC('eth0'))

// Validate that an address is a MAC address
if (isMAC('e4:ce:8f:5b:a7:fc')) {
    console.log('valid MAC')
} else {
    console.log('invalid MAC')
}

Advanced

If you want to do advanced filtering, use os.networkInterfaces() instead.

Install

npm

Install: npm install --save getmac
Import: import pkg from ('getmac')
Require: const pkg = require('getmac').default

Deno

import pkg from 'https://unpkg.com/getmac@^6.6.0/edition-deno/index.ts'

Editions

This package is published with the following editions:

getmac/source/index.ts is TypeScript source code with Import for modules
getmac aliases getmac/edition-es2022/index.js
getmac/edition-es2022/index.js is TypeScript compiled against ES2022 for Node.js 8 || 10 || 12 || 14 || 16 || 18 || 20 || 21 with Require for modules
getmac/edition-es2022-esm/index.js is TypeScript compiled against ES2022 for Node.js 12 || 14 || 16 || 18 || 20 || 21 with Import for modules
getmac/edition-types/index.d.ts is TypeScript compiled Types with Import for modules
getmac/edition-deno/index.ts is TypeScript source code made to be compatible with Deno

History

Discover the release history by heading on over to the HISTORY.md file.

Backers

Code

Discover how to contribute via the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Authors

Benjamin Lupton — Accelerating collaborative wisdom.

Maintainers

Benjamin Lupton — Accelerating collaborative wisdom.

Contributors

Benjamin Lupton — view contributions
Benoit Sepe — view contributions
Gustavo Costa Neves — view contributions
Isaac Huang — view contributions
Jan Pilzer — view contributions
Stephen Brown II — view contributions
ted shroyer — view contributions
zboszor — view contributions

Finances

Donors

License

Unless stated otherwise all works are:

and licensed under:

Artistic License 2.0

getmac development dependencies

@types/node @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin @typescript-eslint/parser assert-helpers eslint eslint-config-bevry eslint-config-prettier eslint-plugin-prettier kava make-deno-edition prettier projectz typedoc typescript valid-directory

FAQs

What is getmac?

Get the MAC address of the current machine you are on. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for getmac, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is getmac popular?

The npm package getmac receives a total of 82,983 weekly downloads. As such, getmac popularity was classified as a recognized. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is getmac well maintained?

We found indications that getmac maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 10 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is getmac safe to use?

The npm package getmac was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 21 November-2024, at 09:00 (UTC).

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