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Simple wallet address validator for validating Bitcoin and other altcoins addresses inNode.js and browser.

Forked fromryanralph/altcoin-address.

File size is ~22 kB (minifed and gzipped).

npm install wallet-address-validator

<scriptsrc="wallet-address-validator.min.js"></script>

• address - Wallet address to validate.
• currency - Optional. Currency name or symbol, e.g.'bitcoin' (default),'litecoin' or'LTC'
• networkType - Optional. Use'prod' (default) to enforce standard address,'testnet' to enforce testnet address and'both' to enforce nothing.

Returns true if the address (string) is a valid wallet address for the crypto currency specified, see below for supported currencies.

• Auroracoin/AUR,'auroracoin' or'AUR'

• Bankex/BKX,'bankex' or'BKX'

• BeaverCoin/BVC,'beavercoin' or'BVC'

• Biocoin/BIO,'biocoin' or'BIO'

• Bitcoin/BTC,'bitcoin' or'BTC'

• BitcoinCash/BCH,'bitcoincash' or'BCH'

• BitcoinGold/BTG,'bitcoingold' or'BTG'

• BitcoinPrivate/BTCP,'bitcoinprivate' or'BTCP'

• BitcoinZ/BTCZ,'bitcoinz' or'BTCZ'

• Callisto/CLO,'callisto' or'CLO'

• Dash,'dash' or'DASH'

• Decred/DCR,'decred' or'DCR'

• Digibyte/DGB,'digibyte' or'DGB'

• Dogecoin/DOGE,'dogecoin' or'DOGE'

• Ethereum/ETH,'ethereum' or'ETH'

• EthereumClassic/ETH,'ethereumclassic' or'ETC'

• EthereumZero/ETZ,'etherzero' or'ETZ'

• Freicoin/FRC,'freicoin' or'FRC'

• Garlicoin/GRLC,'garlicoin' or'GRLC'

• Hush/HUSH,'hush' or'HUSH'

• Komodo/KMD,'komodo' or'KMD'

• Litecoin/LTC,'litecoin' or'LTC'

• Megacoin/MEC,'megacoin' or'MEC'

• Monero/XMR,'monero' or'XMR'

• Namecoin/NMC,'namecoin' or'NMC'

• Nano/NANO,'nano' or'NANO'

• NEO/NEO,'NEO' or'NEO'

• NeoGas/GAS,'neogas' or'GAS'

• Peercoin/PPCoin/PPC,'peercoin' or'PPC'

• Primecoin/XPM,'primecoin' or'XPM'

• Protoshares/PTS,'protoshares' or'PTS'

• Qtum/QTUM,'qtum' or'QTUM'

• Raiblocks/XRB,'raiblocks' or'XRB'

• Ripple/XRP,'ripple' or'XRP'

• Snowgem/SNG,'snowgem' or'SNG'

• Vertcoin/VTC,'vertcoin' or'VTC'

• Votecoin/VTC,'votecoin' or'VOT'

• Zcash/ZEC,'zcash' or'ZEC'

• Zclassic/ZCL,'zclassic' or'ZCL'

• ZenCash/ZEN,'zencash' or'ZEN'

varWAValidator=require('wallet-address-validator');varvalid=WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck','BTC');if(valid)console.log('This is a valid address');elseconsole.log('Address INVALID');// This will log 'This is a valid address' to the console.

varWAValidator=require('wallet-address-validator');varvalid=WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck','litecoin','testnet');if(valid)console.log('This is a valid address');elseconsole.log('Address INVALID');// As this is a invalid litecoin address 'Address INVALID' will be logged to console.

<scriptsrc="wallet-address-validator.min.js"></script>

// WAValidator is exposed as a global (window.WAValidator)varvalid=WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck','bitcoin');if(valid)alert('This is a valid address');elsealert('Address INVALID');// This should show a pop up with text 'This is a valid address'.