# peerdiscovery

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Pure-go library for cross-platform thread-safe local peer discovery using UDP broadcast. I needed to use peer discovery for [croc](https://github.com/schollz/croc) and everything I tried had problems, so I made another one.


## Install

Make sure you have Go 1.5+.

```
go get -u github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery
```

## Usage 

The following is a code to find the first peer on the local network and print it out.

```golang
discoveries, _ := peerdiscovery.Discover(peerdiscovery.Settings{Limit: 1})
for _, d := range discoveries {
    fmt.Printf("discovered '%s'\n", d.Address)
}
```

Here's the output when running on two computers. (*Run these gifs in sync by hitting Ctl + F5*).

**Computer 1:**

![computer 1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6550035/39165714-ba7167d8-473a-11e8-82b5-fb7401ce2138.gif)

**Computer 2:**

![computer 1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6550035/39165716-ba8db9ec-473a-11e8-96f7-e8c64faac676.gif)

For more examples, see [the scanning example](https://github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery/blob/master/examples/main.go) or [the docs](https://godoc.org/github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery).


## Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to...

- Revise documentation
- Add new features
- Fix bugs
- Suggest improvements

## License

MIT