Greentrace lib
The standalone library used by the GreenTrace App to show
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where packets are hoping through the world when you make a request from your machine, based on the Geolite IP Database
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which hops pass through infrastructure running on green energy, as listed by the Green Web Foundation
Usage
As a command line tool
This will run a traceroute, then print to STDOUT a GeoJSON file with coordinates for every IP address, as looked up in the GeoIP database.
npx greentrace --domain=yourdomain.com
Note: it's not fast. I'd welcome pointers on making this run faster, without losing too much info.
As a library
You can also run this as a library in a larger application. You can see this in use in the greentrace electron app, designed plot these hops on a map.
import GreenTrace from "@tgwf/greentrace-lib"
// return a Promise, that resolves to an array
const hops = await GreenTrace.trace(domainName)
// make this into something we can put on a map
const hopsAsgeoJSON = hops.toGeoJSON()Licenses
There are two licenses, for the code and data. See the LICENSE file for details.