Check if IP address is a Known Threat in Node.js

Cloudmersive’s Security Threat Detection API provides a few easy ways to detect common cyber security threats, via ready-to-run code found on the Cloudmersive API console page. In this article, we’ll run through how to implement a particularly useful iteration of this API in Node.js. This API iteration will help you find out if a given IP address is a known security threat — and it can do a lot more, too, checking for botnets, compromised servers, and other common network security threats.

To get started with this API, first copy the below command script to install the SDK:

npm install cloudmersive-security-api-client --save

Alternatively, use this snippet for package.json:

"dependencies": {
    "cloudmersive-security-api-client": "^1.2.0"
  }

Once that’s done, here comes the easy part: just copy and paste the below ready-to-run code into your environment and refer to the response model in figure 1 to see how your results should appear.

var CloudmersiveSecurityApiClient = require('cloudmersive-security-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveSecurityApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveSecurityApiClient.NetworkThreatDetectionApi();
var value = "value_example"; // String | IP address to check, e.g. \"55.55.55.55\".  The input is a string so be sure to enclose it in double-quotes.
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
  if (error) {
    console.error(error);
  } else {
    console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
  }
};
apiInstance.networkThreatDetectionIsThreat(value, callback);

Figure 1. Example Value Response Model