Top 11 JavaScript Scanner Projects

Detect-It-Easy

1 18 9,225 9.9 JavaScript

Program for determining types of files for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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Retire.js

2 4 3,943 8.3 JavaScript

scanner detecting the use of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities. Can also generate an SBOM of the libraries it finds.

Project mention: Retire.js – Scanner for JavaScript Libraries | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-04
rats-search

3 5 1,715 7.5 JavaScript

BitTorrent P2P multi-platform search engine for Desktop and Web servers with integrated torrent client.
i18next-scanner

4 1 640 4.4 JavaScript

Scan your code, extract translation keys/values, and merge them into i18n resource files.
netcat

5 0 431 0.0 JavaScript

:computer: Netcat client and server modules written in pure Javascript for Node.js.
spamscanner

6 4 326 4.2 JavaScript

Spam Scanner is a Node.js anti-spam, email filtering, and phishing prevention tool and service. Built for @ladjs, @forwardemail, @cabinjs, @breejs, and @lassjs.
pwa-qr-code-scanner

7 1 267 0.0 JavaScript

Lightweight progressive web app for scanning QR codes offline
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html5-qrcode-react

8 3 124 0.0 JavaScript

React example using html5-qrcode library
wireless-microphone-analyzer

9 3 106 6.7 JavaScript

Scans the spectrum for free/congested wireless microphone channels ("RF Explorer" or "TinySA" hardware is required!)
web-twain-document-scan-management

10 15 3 8.6 JavaScript

Document Scanning examples built with Dynamic Web TWAIN

Project mention: How to Enable PDF Text Search in Web Applications | dev.to | 2025-08-11

OCR library: ocr-lib.js provides a unified API to run free OCR engines like Tesseract.js or OCR.space API and output searchable PDFs.
barcode-generator

11 1 3 0.0 JavaScript

Convert your texts, numbers, data and even passwords to Barcode to be valid everywhere.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Retire.js – Scanner for JavaScript Libraries

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2025
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Scanner projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	Detect-It-Easy	9,225
2	Retire.js	3,943
3	rats-search	1,715
4	i18next-scanner	640
5	netcat	431
6	spamscanner	326
7	pwa-qr-code-scanner	267
8	html5-qrcode-react	124
9	wireless-microphone-analyzer	106
10	web-twain-document-scan-management	3
11	barcode-generator	3