FingerprintJS Pro Svelte

Fingerprint is a device intelligence platform offering 99.5% accurate visitor identification.

FingerprintJS Pro Svelte SDK is an easy way to integrate Fingerprint into your Svelte or Svelte-kit application. See example apps in the examples folder.

Requirements

• Svelte 4.0.0 or higher
• For TypeScript users: use Typescript 4.8 or higher
• For SvelteKit users: SvelteKit 1.0.0 or higher

This package works with the commercial Fingerprint platform. It is not compatible with the source-available FingerprintJS library. Learn more about the differences between Fingerprint and FingerprintJS.

Installation

Yarn:

yarn add @fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs-pro-svelte

npm:

npm install @fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs-pro-svelte

pnpm:

pnpm add @fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs-pro-svelte

Getting started

In order to identify visitors, you'll need a Fingerprint Pro account (you can sign up for free). To get your API key and get started, see the Quick start guide in our documentation.

1. Wrap your application (or component) in FpjsProvider. You can specify multiple configuration options. Set a region if you have chosen a non-global region during registration. Set endpoint and scriptUrlPattern if you are using one of our proxy integrations to increase accuracy and effectiveness of visitor identification.

// App.svelte
<script>
  import { FpjsProvider, FingerprintJSPro } from '@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs-pro-svelte'
  import VisitorData from './VisitorData.svelte'

  const options = {
    loadOptions: {
      apiKey: '<YOUR_API_KEY>',
      endpoint: [
        // "https://metrics.yourwebsite.com", 
        FingerprintJSPro.defaultEndpoint
      ],
      scriptUrlPattern: [
        // "https://metrics.yourwebsite.com/web/v<version>/<apiKey>/loader_v<loaderVersion>.js",
        FingerprintJSPro.defaultScriptUrlPattern
      ],
      // region: 'eu',  
    },
  };
</script>

<FpjsProvider {options}>
  <VisitorData />
</FpjsProvider>

2. Use the useVisitorData function in your svelte components to indentify visitors and get the results.

// VisitorData.svelte
<script>
  import { useVisitorData } from '@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs-pro-svelte';

  // Set to true fo fetch data when component is mounted
  export let immediate = false;

  const { getData, data, isLoading, error } = useVisitorData({ extendedResult: true }, { immediate });

  $: {
    if ($data) {
      // Do something with visitorData here
    }
  }
</script>

<div>
  <button id='get_data' on:click={() => getData()}> Get data</button>
  {#if $isLoading}
    <div id='loading'>Loading...</div>
  {/if}
  {#if $error}
    <div id='error'>Error occurred: {$error.message}</div>
  {/if}
  {#if $data}
    <div>
      <!--visitorData is available here!-->
    </div>
  {/if}
</div>

See the full code in the provided example applications.

Linking and tagging information

The visitorId provided by Fingerprint Identification is especially useful when combined with information you already know about your users, for example, account IDs, order IDs, etc. To learn more about various applications of the linkedId and tag, see Linking and tagging information.

Associate the visitor ID with your data using the linkedId or tag parameter of the options object passed into the useVisitorData() hook:

<script>
  import { useVisitorData } from '@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs-pro-svelte';
  const { getData, data, isLoading, error } = useVisitorData({
    linkedId: 'user_1234',
    tag: {
      userAction: 'login',
      analyticsId: 'UA-5555-1111-1',
    },
  });
</script>

Caching strategy

Fingerprint Pro usage is billed per API call. To avoid unnecessary API calls, it is a good practice to cache identification results. By default, the SDK uses sessionStorage to cache results.

• Specify the cacheLocation prop on <FpjsProvider> to instead store results in memory or localStorage. Use none to disable caching completely.
• Specify the cache prop on <FpjsProvider> to use your custom cache implementation instead. For more details, see Creating a custom cache in the Fingerprint Pro SPA repository (a lower-level Fingerprint library used by this SDK).
• Pass {ignoreCache: true} to the getData() function to ignore cached results for that specific API call.

Note

If you use data from extendedResult, pay additional attention to your caching strategy. Some fields, for example, ip or lastSeenAt, might change over time for the same visitor. Use getData({ ignoreCache: true }) to fetch the latest identification results.

Documentation

See the generated SDK API reference here.

This library uses Fingerprint Pro JavaScript agent under the hood. See our documentation for the full JavaScript Agent API reference.

Error handling

The getData function throws errors directly from the JS Agent without changing them. See JS Agent error handling for more details.

Support and feedback

To report problems, ask questions or provide feedback, please use Issues. If you need private support, you can email us at [email protected].

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.