device-ip-location
Get device information from your systems users: Device model and version, operating system and version, and an abundance of location information from their ip address
Use for security management i.e password resetting & detecting new sign in devices etc.
See https://www.npmjs.com/package/device-ip-location
Install
npm i device-ip-location
Usage
const device = require('device-ip-location');
//Make sure to bypass the reverse proxy by allowing for IP visibility by enabling proxy trust if you're using express:
app.enable('trust proxy');
// Use the request data to access the required parameters (ip and header)
// Example agent - 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; NX505J Build/KVT49L) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.78 Mobile Safari/537.36';
var agent = req.headers['user-agent'];
// Example requestIp - 105.4.4.147
var requestIp = req.ip
device.getInfo(agent,requestIp,function(err,res){
if(err){
console.log(err);
return
}
console.log(res);
})Result parse
{ "device":
{ "os":
{ "short_name": "WIN",
"name": "Windows",
"version": "10",
"platform": "x64",
"family": "Windows" },
"device": { "id": "", "type": "desktop", "brand": "", "model": "" },
"client":
{ "engine": "Blink",
"engine_version": "",
"short_name": "CH",
"name": "Chrome",
"version": "69.0.3497.100",
"type": "browser" } },
"locale":
{ "ip": "105.4.4.147",
"type": "ipv4",
"continent_code": "AF",
"continent_name": "Africa",
"country_code": "ZA",
"country_name": "South Africa",
"region_code": "GT",
"region_name": "Gauteng",
"city": "Johannesburg",
"zip": "2000",
"latitude": -26.2309,
"longitude": 28.0583,
"location":
{ "geoname_id": 993800,
"capital": "Pretoria",
"languages": [],
"country_flag": "http://assets.ipstack.com/flags/za.svg",
"country_flag_emoji": "🇿🇦",
"country_flag_emoji_unicode": "U+1F1FF U+1F1E6",
"calling_code": "27",
"is_eu": false } } }