bo-crypto-address-validator

Simple wallet address validator for validating Bitcoin and other altcoins addresses in Node.js and browser.

Forked from ognus/wallet-address-validator.

File size is ~40K (minifed and gzipped).

Whats new

= Support for eosio / EOS

• Support cashAddr for Bitcoin Cash / BCH
• Support for Stellar Lumens / XLM
• Support ofr OMG, ZRX and BAT
• Support ofr Algorand/ALG
• Support for Tether/USDT (ETH address only for now)
• Support for Tezos/XTZ
• Support for CHAINLINK
• Support for DAI, KNC and REP
• Support for ENJ, LRC, MATIC, MANA

Installation

NPM

npm install bo-crypto-address-validator

Browser

<script src="wallet-address-validator.min.js"></script>

API

validate (address [, currency = 'bitcoin'[, networkType = 'prod']])

Parameters

• address - Wallet address to validate.
• currency - Optional. Currency name or symbol, e.g. 'bitcoin' (default), 'litecoin' or 'LTC'
• networkType - Optional. Use 'prod' (default) to enforce standard address, 'testnet' to enforce testnet address and 'both' to enforce nothing.

Returns true if the address (string) is a valid wallet address for the crypto currency specified, see below for supported currencies.

Supported crypto currencies

• Auroracoin/AUR, 'auroracoin' or 'AUR'

• Bankex/BKX, 'bankex' or 'BKX'

• BeaverCoin/BVC, 'beavercoin' or 'BVC'

• Biocoin/BIO, 'biocoin' or 'BIO'

• Bitcoin/BTC, 'bitcoin' or 'BTC'

• BitcoinCash/BCH, 'bitcoincash' or 'BCH'

• BitcoinGold/BTG, 'bitcoingold' or 'BTG'

• BitcoinPrivate/BTCP, 'bitcoinprivate' or 'BTCP'

• BitcoinZ/BTCZ, 'bitcoinz' or 'BTCZ'

• Tether/USDT, 'Tether' or 'USDT' (ETH address only for now)

• OmiseGO/OMG, 'OmiseGO' or 'OMG'

• 0x/ZRX, '0x' or 'ZRX'

• BAT/BAT, 'BAT'

• Algorand/ALG, 'Algorand' or 'ALG'

• Callisto/CLO, 'callisto' or 'CLO'

• Dash, 'dash' or 'DASH'

• Decred/DCR, 'decred' or 'DCR'

• Digibyte/DGB, 'digibyte' or 'DGB'

• Dogecoin/DOGE, 'dogecoin' or 'DOGE'

• Ethereum/ETH, 'ethereum' or 'ETH'

• EthereumClassic/ETH, 'ethereumclassic' or 'ETC'

• EthereumZero/ETZ, 'etherzero' or 'ETZ'

• Freicoin/FRC, 'freicoin' or 'FRC'

• Garlicoin/GRLC, 'garlicoin' or 'GRLC'

• Hush/HUSH, 'hush' or 'HUSH'

• Komodo/KMD, 'komodo' or 'KMD'

• Litecoin/LTC, 'litecoin' or 'LTC'

• Eosio/EOS, 'eosio' or 'EOS'

• StellarLumens/XLM, , 'stellarlumens' or 'XLM'

• Megacoin/MEC, 'megacoin' or 'MEC'

• Monero/XMR, 'monero' or 'XMR'

• Namecoin/NMC, 'namecoin' or 'NMC'

• Nano/NANO, 'nano' or 'NANO'

• NEO/NEO, 'NEO' or 'NEO'

• NeoGas/GAS, 'neogas' or 'GAS'

• Peercoin/PPCoin/PPC, 'peercoin' or 'PPC'

• Primecoin/XPM, 'primecoin' or 'XPM'

• Protoshares/PTS, 'protoshares' or 'PTS'

• Qtum/QTUM, 'qtum' or 'QTUM'

• Raiblocks/XRB, 'raiblocks' or 'XRB'

• Ripple/XRP, 'ripple' or 'XRP'

• Snowgem/SNG, 'snowgem' or 'SNG'

• Vertcoin/VTC, 'vertcoin' or 'VTC'

• Votecoin/VTC, 'votecoin' or 'VOT'

• Zcash/ZEC, 'zcash' or 'ZEC'

• Zclassic/ZCL, 'zclassic' or 'ZCL'

• ZenCash/ZEN, 'zencash' or 'ZEN'

• CHAINLINK/LINK, 'chainlink' or 'LINK'

• Dai/DAI, 'dai' or 'DAI'

• Dai/DAI, 'makter' or 'MKR'

• Kyber/KNC, 'kyber' or 'KNC'

• Augur/REP, 'augur' or 'REP'

• Uniswap/UNI, 'uniswap' or 'UNI'

• Compound/COMP, 'compound' or 'COMP'

• Synthetix/SNX, 'synthetix' or 'SNX'

• yearn.finance/YFI, 'yearn.finance' or 'YFI'

• Balancer/BAL, 'balancer' or 'BAL'

• LOOPRING/LRC, 'LOOPRING' or 'LRC'

• POLYGON/MATIC, 'POLYGON' or 'MATIC'

• DECENTRALAND/MANA, 'DECENTRALAND' or 'MANA'

• ENJIN/ENJ, 'ENJIN' or 'ENJ'

Usage example

Node

var WAValidator = require('wallet-address-validator');

var valid = WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck', 'BTC');
if(valid)
	console.log('This is a valid address');
else
	console.log('Address INVALID');

// This will log 'This is a valid address' to the console.

var WAValidator = require('wallet-address-validator');

var valid = WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck', 'litecoin', 'testnet');
if(valid)
      console.log('This is a valid address');
else
      console.log('Address INVALID');

// As this is a invalid litecoin address 'Address INVALID' will be logged to console.

Browser

<script src="wallet-address-validator.min.js"></script>

// WAValidator is exposed as a global (window.WAValidator)
var valid = WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck', 'bitcoin');
if(valid)
    alert('This is a valid address');
else
    alert('Address INVALID');

// This should show a pop up with text 'This is a valid address'.