Fingerprint OSS

A free and open source fingerprinting service unlike FingerprintJS.

⚠️ Important Notice

This library is released under the LGPL-3.0 license and includes ethical guidelines for usage. Please read our Ethical Contribution Notice before using this library. We are committed to:

• Transparent data collection
• User privacy protection
• Ethical usage of fingerprinting technology
• Compliance with privacy regulations

About

Fingerprint OSS is a fork of user-info-logger, a simple client-side fingerprinting library that logs user information. Unlike commercial alternatives that are "source available" but not truly open, Fingerprint OSS is released under the LGPL-3.0 license, making it fully open source and free to use.

Demo

• Live Demo
• Demo Repository

Features

• Lightweight browser fingerprinting
• Easy integration with any web application
• 100% client-side operation (except the GeoLocation API)
• Comprehensive user data collection
• VPN detection
• Incognito mode detection
• AdBlocker detection
• Bot detection
• GDPR compliance support

Installation

Install via npm:

npm install fingerprint-oss@latest

Usage

Basic usage:

import userInfo from 'fingerprint-oss';
const data = await userInfo();

Configuration for GDPR Compliance

const config = {
    transparency: true,
    message: 'Custom message about data collection'
};

const data = await userInfo(config);

Configuration options:

• transparency: If true, logs a message to the console about data collection
• message: Custom message to be logged to the console

Documentation

• API Documentation - Detailed API reference and output structure
• Wiki
• Changelog
• Ethical Contribution Notice

Data Collected

Fingerprint OSS can collect information about:

• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Screen resolution
• Installed plugins
• Language settings
• Time zone
• Hardware information
• Canvas fingerprinting
• WebGL capabilities
• VPN status
• Incognito mode status
• AdBlocker status
• Bot detection
• And more...

For a complete list of collected data and their structure, please refer to our API Documentation.

Project Status

This project is currently under active development. See the changelog for the latest updates.

License

LGPLv3 - See LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request or open issues on our GitHub repository. Before contributing, please read our Ethical Contribution Notice to ensure your contributions align with our ethical guidelines.

Acknowledgements

This project is a fork of user-info-logger, with enhancements and improvements for better performance and features.