Hypercore Detector

Detect the type of a Hypercore (Hypercore, Hyperbee or Hyperdrive)

Install

npm i hypercore-detector

Usage

const detect = require('hypercore-detector')

let type = await detect(aHypercore)

if (!type) {
  type = detect(aHypercore, { wait: true })
}

if (type === 'bee') {
  console.log('I am a bee')
} else if (type === 'drive') {
  console.log('I am the db core of a drive')
} else {
  console.log('I am a basic hypercore')
}

API

const type = await detect(hypercore, opts?)

Detect the type of the hypercore.

returns either 'core', 'bee', 'drive' or null.

null is returned when it is not yet possible to determine the type. Set opts.wait = true if instead you want to wait until the type can be determined.

Do note that this will wait until the first block of the hypercore becomes locally available, so make sure you are either the writer, or are swarming on this core.