verifiera

verifiera.js

Verifiera: A JavaScript library to perform common operations on Personal Identification Numbers (Social Security Numbers), like: Validation, censoring the individual digits, calculating age and detecting gender.

Key Information

verifiera.js:

• Available for browsers, Node.js and as ES6 module.
• Shakable-tree.
• Respects semver.
• Well tested.
• Zero dependency.
• Written in TypeScript.
• Types are included.

Supported Countries Demo

• :cz: Czech Republic and :sk: Slovakia (Rodné Číslo)
• :dk: Denmark (CPR-Nummer)
• :fi: Finland (Henkilötunnus / Personbeteckning)
• :nl: Netherlands (Burgerservicenummer) Validation only
• :no: Norway (Fødselsnummer and D-nummer)
• :pl: Poland (PESEL)
• :se: Sweden (Personnummer and Samordningsnummer)

Upcoming Features

• Swedish organization no.
• Suggest a country or a feature!

Installation

npm i verifiera

Usage

You can use ES6 import style:

import {
  czechSlovakia,
  denmark,
  finland,
  netherlands,
  norway,
  poland,
  sweden
} from 'verifiera'

or CommonJS require style:

const {
  czechSlovakia,
  denmark,
  finland,
  netherlands,
  norway,
  poland,
  sweden
} = require('verifiera')

Or even fetch to the browser as a script

<script src="https://unpkg.com/verifiera@latest/dist/verifiera.js"></script>
<script>
const sweden = window.verifiera.sweden;
</script>

Then you can use the desired country tools by passing the personal number to it:

const ssn = sweden('571124-1322')

ssn.validate() // true
ssn.getAge() // 62
ssn.getBirthday() // 1957-11-24
ssn.getCensored() // 571124-****
ssn.getGender() // f
ssn.getYear() // 1957

Functions (Country Tools)

Country functions can be called as the following, where ssn is the personal number:

Country	Arguments
denmark	(ssn, strict = false)
finland	(ssn)
netherlands	(ssn)
norway	(ssn)
poland	(ssn)
sweden	(ssn, strict = true)

A country function returns an object of the following country tools:

Functions	Returns	Returns	Valid Example	If Invalid	Notes
validate()	if the ssn valid	bool	true	false
getAge()	Person's age	int	62	0
getBirthday()	Person's birthday	str	'1957-11-24'	''
getCensored()	Replaces identifiers	str	'571124-****'	''
getGender()	Person's gender	str	'f' or 'm'	''
getYear()	Year of birth	int	1975	0
isDNumber()	Is it a D-number?	bool	true	false	Norway only
isCoordinationNo()	Is co-ordination no?	bool	true	false	Sweden only

Additional Tools

isDNumber

• Detects whether a Norwegian personal number is a D-number.
• Returns false if the personal number looks like a D-number but isn't a valid one.

import { norway } from 'verifiera'

norway('41018036736').isDNumber() // true

Auto-Detection of the Country

• If you have a valid personal number and you want to detect to which country it belongs, you can use the detectCountry() function.
• It only detects supported countries. :)

import { detectCountry } from 'verifiera'

detectCountry('571124-1322') // sweden

Possible values are:

• czech_slovakia
• denmark
• finland
• netherlands
• norway
• poland
• sweden

Auto-Initiation of Country Tools

• This function will iterate over the list of all countries and return the correct one.
• Use when you don't know which country you are dealing with, but you only care about the operations. Ex: verify (or calculate ages for) a list of personal numbers that come from different countries.

import { getCountryTools } from 'verifiera'

const ssn = getCountryTools('571124-1322')

ssn.validate() // true
ssn.getAge() // 62
ssn.getBirthday() // 1957-11-24
ssn.getCensored() // 571124-****
ssn.getGender() // f
ssn.getYear() // 1957

Country Notes

• Denmark:

  • However, in 2007 the available sequence numbers under this system for males born on 1 January 1965 ran out, and since October 2007 personal identification numbers do not always validate using the check digit. This had been predicted and announced several years in advance. Thus, most IT systems are presumed updated to accept numbers that fail the check-digit validation. — Wikipedia

  • Therefore, I see no use for performing a checksum on Danish personal numbers, because we will get false negatives. However, if you want to use the checksum, you can pass a true boolean after the personal number in denmark('260783-1234', true), but this will consider some of real-world numbers invalud.
• Netherlands:
  • Dutch personal numbers don't hold any personal information like birthday or gender.
  • The only working function in the Dutch country tools is validate().
  • getCensored() returns ********* for valid numbers.
• Norway:
  • validate() returns true for both valid normal personal numbers and valid D-numbers. If it's important to differentiate between them, please use isDNumber()
• Sweden:
  • In Sweden, some companies add the century digits as a part of the personal number, or remove the -/+ signs between the date of birth and the four individual digits. These variations are not part of the official standard as specified by Skatteverket. So I included a switch for strict mode:
    • strict = true Supports the official standard format only (default).
    • strict = false Supports the popular non-standard format.
  • validate() returns true for both valid normal personal numbers and valid coordination numbers. If it's important to differentiate between them, please use isCoordinationNo()

Issues and Bugs

Please submit your requests or report issues and bugs here.

Contribution

Feel free to discuss any addition or improvement before you submit a merge request. Please don't commit anything in the dist folder. This folder gets updated just before a release.

PHP Sister

This library was introduced originally in PHP as Bekräfta

License

MIT