Fast browser fingerprint library. Written in pure JavaScript, no dependencies. By default uses Murmur hashing and returns a 32bit integer number. Hashing function can be easily replaced. Feather weight: only 1.2 KB when gzipped.
Fingerprinting is a technique, outlined in the research by Electronic Frontier Foundation, of anonymously identifying a web browser with accuracy of up to 94%.
A browser is queried for its agent string, screen color depth, language, installed plugins with supported mime types, timezone offset and other capabilities, such as local storage and session storage. Then these values are passed through a hashing function to produce a fingerprint that gives weak guarantees of uniqueness.
No cookies are stored to identify a browser.
It's worth noting that a mobile share of browsers is much more uniform, so fingerprinting should be used only as a supplementary identifying mechanism there.
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bower install fingerprint
npm install fingerprintjs
note the trailing js in the name
If you're on Rails, add this to your Gemfile
gem 'fingerprintjs-rails'
and
bundle install
After that you can add the file to sprockets:
//= require fingerprint
Just copy the fingerprint.js file to your js directory.
var fingerprint = new Fingerprint().get();If you want to use canvas fingerprinting pass the canvas: true option
var fingerprint = new Fingerprint({canvas: true}).get();According to the above Pixel Perfect research, it should further increase the accuracy of fingerprinting.
Note for IE9: in order to use the canvas fingerprinting on IE9, the html must have a valid html5 declaration:
<!DOCTYPE html>
If you want to use the screen resolution in calculating the fingerprint, pass the screen_resolution: true option
var fingerprint = new Fingerprint({screen_resolution: true}).get();Fingerprint generates identical output in regular and private modes, i.e. the reporting will identify a private mode browser as usual.
Detecting the plugins information is very important in building the fingerprint.
In IE (surprise) it is not possible to just query the list of plugins, their mime types, etc. Instead, one must use special probing code to detect each individual plugin, because all plugins are ActiveX controls in IE.
If you want to query the IE plugins info to further diversify the fingerprinting process, pass the ie_activex: true option.
This will detect following plugins:
- Adobe Reader
- Adobe Flash Player
- Apple QuickTime
- Real player (all versions)
- Shockwave player
- Windows Media Player
- Microsoft Silverlight
- Skype ClickToCall
Note that this process is safe for other browsers, and the ie_activex options will be ignored.
var my_hasher = new function(value, seed){ return value.length % seed; };
var fingerprint = new Fingerprint({hasher: my_hasher}).get();or pass the hashing function as is:
var my_hasher = new function(value, seed){ return value.length % seed; };
var fingerprint = new Fingerprint(my_hasher).get();Running specs manually is just opening the specs/test_runner.html
Running specs from the command line or in CI requires phantomjs in your PATH
cd specs
phantomjs lib/phantom-jasmine/run_jasmine_test.coffee test_runner.html
The example is in run.sh file.
To build the project, run grunt command. This will run the jshint and uglify the code into build/fingerprint.min.js.
Running specs with grunt is not implemented but is on my todo list.
To minify the file I recommend using uglifyjs(requires node.js) If you don't have it installed, install it with:
npm -g install uglify-js
Then run the minification with:
uglifyjs fingerprint.js > fingerprint.min.js -mc
-mc tells uglifier to (m)angle and (c)ompress the input code.
If you don't have node.js installed on your machine, you can create a minified version of the library with online services, such as Google Closure compiler
This code is MIT licenced:
Copyright (c) 2013 Valentin Vasilyev
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