Blockchain Commons Multipart UR for TypeScript

Disclaimer: This package is under active development and APIs may change.

Introduction

@bcts/multipart-ur is a multipart Uniform Resource (UR) QR code generator. It produces single-frame and animated fountain-coded QR sequences — suitable for transmitting arbitrarily large UR-encoded payloads through an airgap — with an optional logo overlay.

This package provides:

• Single-frame QR code rendering from raw bytes or UR strings
• Logo overlay with module-aligned compositing (square or circle clear shape)
• Animated multipart fountain-coded QR sequences (GIF output)
• ProRes 4444 encoding via optional ffmpeg integration (Node only)
• Frame dump as numbered PNGs for custom pipelines
• Configurable QR error correction level, colors, quiet zone, and module size
• Density safety checks to prevent unreadable QR codes
• CLI tool mur with single, animate, and frames subcommands

The library is browser-compatible. The mur CLI and the encodeProres helper require Node.js; ProRes output additionally requires ffmpeg on PATH.

Specification

Built on top of the Uniform Resources (UR) specification — specifically its multipart fountain-coded form for QR animations.

Rust Reference Implementation

This TypeScript implementation is based on bc-mur-rust v0.1.0 (commit).

Install

bun add @bcts/multipart-ur

Usage

import { Color, CorrectionLevel, renderUrQr } from "@bcts/multipart-ur";

const img = renderUrQr(
  "ur:bytes/hdcxdwinvezm",
  CorrectionLevel.Low,
  512, // target pixel size (square)
  Color.BLACK,
  Color.WHITE,
  1, // quiet zone modules
  null, // no logo
);
const pngBytes = img.toPng();

CLI

mur single ur:bytes/hdcxdwinvezm -o out.png
mur animate ur:bytes/... -o out.gif
mur frames ur:bytes/... -o out_frames/