tiaanduplessis/south-african-id-info

🇿🇦 Validate and decode information from an South African ID

🇿🇦 south-african-id-info

Validate and decode information from an South African ID

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Install

Usage

CLI

Contribute

License

Install

$ npm install --save south-african-id-info
# OR
$ yarn add south-african-id-info

Usage

The module exports a single function that takes a number string as argument and returns an object.

const southAfricanIdInfo = require('south-african-id-info')

console.log(southAfricanIdInfo('9301215029086'))
//	{ valid: true,
//  	birthDate: 1993-01-20T22:00:00.000Z,
//  	gender: 'male', // 'female' //
//  	citizenship: 'SA citizen' // 'permanent resident'
// 	}

console.log(info('9202204720082'))
// { valid: false }

CLI

$ npm install --global south-african-id-info
# OR
$ yarn global add south-african-id-info

Then:

$ sa-id-info 9301215029086
# valid:       true
# birthDate:   Thu Jan 21 1993 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (SAST)
# gender:      male
# citizenship: SA citizen

Contribute

Contributions are welcome. Please open up an issue or create PR if you would like to help out.

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License

Licensed under the MIT License.