creditcards

Utility methods for formatting and validating credit cards. With a minimal footprint and a flexible API, it's suitable for both Node and the browser.

Install

# npm
$ npm install creditcards
# bower
$ bower install creditcards

API

validate(card)

• Arguments:
  • card (object)
    • number (string)
    • expirationMonth (number)
    • expirationYear (number)
    • cvc (string)
• Returns:
  • object
    • card
      • type (string) - the type of the provided card
      • number (string)
      • expirationMonth (number)
      • expirationYear (number)
      • cvc (string)
    • validCardNumber (boolean)
    • validExpirationMonth (boolean)
    • validExpirationYear (boolean)
    • validCvc (boolean)
    • expired (boolean) - whether the expiration date has passed

card

card.parse(number) -> String

Removes all non-numeric characters from a card number, including punctuation and spacing. If a non-string is provided, it returns an empty string.

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card.type(number) -> String

Returns the matched card type, or undefined if there was no match. Valid card types are:

• Visa
• MasterCard
• American Express
• Diners Club
• Discover
• JCB

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card.luhn(number) -> Boolean

Checks the card number's validity using the Luhn algorithm.

card.isValid(number [, type]) -> Boolean

Validates the number using card.luhn and checks that it matches any type (or a specific type if provided).

cvc

isValid(cvc [, type]) -> Boolean

Checks whether a card verification code is a valid 3-4 digit numeric string. If a type is provided, the length will be validated for the card type (4 for American Express, 3 for others).

expiration

isPast(month, year) -> Boolean

Checks whether a given month and year pair (both Number) are in the past.

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expiration.month

expiration.month.parse(month) -> Number

Casts the provided month value to a Number. All of the following will be 5 after parsing:

• 5
• '05'
• '5'

Returns undefined for non-numeric values.

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expiration.month.isValid(month) -> Boolean

Checks whether the provided month (Number) is valid (between 1 and 12).

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expiration.year

expiration.year.parse(year [, pad]) -> Number

Casts the provided year value to a Number. If pad is true, year is assumed to be a two digit number or numeric string. All of the following are equivalent:

• expiration.year.parse(2014)
• expiration.year.parse('2014')
• expiration.year.parse('14', true)
• expiration.year.parse(14, true)

Returns undefined for non-numeric values.

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expiration.year.format(year [, strip]) -> Number

Casts the provided year (Number) to a String. If strip is true, year is assumed to be a four digit number and will be converted to a two digit number.

• expiration.year.format(2014) === '2014'
• expiration.year.format(2014, true) === '14'

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expiration.year.isValid(year) -> Boolean

Checks whether the provided year (Number) is valid (> 0).

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expiration.year.isPast(year) -> Boolean

Checks whether a given year (Number) is in the past.

Why Another Library?

There are lots of other useful credit card validation and parsing modules. creditcards specifically takes inspiration from credit-card, but there are many others, including the popular jQuery.payment. creditcards was specifically designed for browser use for handling payment forms. That means:

1. Browserified, it's only a few kilobytes, even before minification.
2. It provides an API for parsing user inputs.
3. It has no DOM-related code. You can use it in Node and in the browser you get full control over how your card inputs are handled.
4. The card type is optional.

Clients

• angular-credit-cards: A set of Angular directives for building credit card forms powered by creditcards

License

MIT