node-GameDig - Game Server Query Library

node-GameDig is a game server query library, capable of querying for the status of nearly any game or voice server. If a server makes its status publically available, GameDig can fetch it for you.

GameDig is available as a node.js module, as well as a command line executable.

Usage from Node.js

npm install gamedig

const Gamedig = require('gamedig');
Gamedig.query({
    type: 'minecraft',
    host: 'mc.example.com'
}).then((state) => {
    console.log(state);
}).catch((error) => {
    console.log("Server is offline");
});

Query Options

Typical

• type: string - One of the game IDs listed in the game list below
• host: string - Hostname or IP of the game server
• port: number (optional) - Connection port or query port for the game server. Some games utilize a separate "query" port. If specifying the game port does not seem to work as expected, passing in this query port may work instead. (defaults to protocol default port)

Advanced

• maxAttempts: number - Number of attempts to query server in case of failure. (default 1)
• socketTimeout: number - Milliseconds to wait for a single packet. Beware that increasing this will cause many queries to take longer even if the server is online. (default 2000)
• attemptTimeout: number - Milliseconds allowed for an entire query attempt. This timeout is not commonly hit, as the socketTimeout typically fires first. (default 10000)
• debug: boolean - Enables massive amounts of debug logging to stdout. (default false)

Return Value

The returned state object will contain the following keys:

• name: string - Server name
• map: string - Current server game map
• password: boolean - If a password is required
• maxplayers: number
• players: array of objects
  • Each object may or may not contain name, ping, score, team, address.
  • The number of players online can be determined by players.length.
  • For servers which do not provide player names, this may be an array of empty objects (ex. [{},{},{}]), one for each player without a name.
• bots: array of objects - Same schema as players
• connect: string
  • This will typically include the game's ip:port
  • The port will reflect the server's game port, even if your request specified the game's query port in the request.
  • For some games, this may be a server ID or connection url if an IP:Port is not appropriate for end-users.
• ping: number
  • Round trip time to the server (in milliseconds).
  • Note that this is not the RTT of an ICMP echo, as ICMP packets are often blocked by NATs and node has poor support for raw sockets.
  • This value is derived from the RTT of one of the query packets, which is usually quite accurate, but may add a bit due to server lag.
• raw: freeform object (unstable)
  • Contains all information received from the server in a disorganized format.
  • The content of this field MAY change on a per-protocol basis between GameDig patch releases (although not typical).

Games List

Supported

GameDig Type ID	Name	Notes
7d2d	7 Days to Die (2013)
ageofchivalry	Age of Chivalry (2007)
aoe2	Age of Empires 2 (1999)
alienarena	Alien Arena (2004)
alienswarm	Alien Swarm (2010)
avp2	Aliens versus Predator 2 (2001)
avp2010	Aliens vs. Predator (2010)
americasarmy	America's Army (2002)
americasarmy2	America's Army 2 (2003)
americasarmy3	America's Army 3 (2009)
americasarmypg	America's Army: Proving Grounds (2015)
arcasimracing	Arca Sim Racing (2008)
arkse	Ark: Survival Evolved (2017)
arma2	ARMA 2 (2009)
arma2oa	ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead (2010)
arma3	ARMA 3 (2013)
arma	ARMA: Armed Assault (2007)
armacwa	ARMA: Cold War Assault (2011)
armar	ARMA: Resistance (2011)
armagetron	Armagetron Advanced (2001)
assettocorsa	Assetto Corsa (2014)
atlas	Atlas (2018)
baldursgate	Baldur's Gate (1998)
bat1944	Battalion 1944 (2018)
bf1942	Battlefield 1942 (2002)
bf2	Battlefield 2 (2005)
bf2142	Battlefield 2142 (2006)
bf3	Battlefield 3 (2011)
bf4	Battlefield 4 (2013)
bfh	Battlefield Hardline (2015)
bfv	Battlefield Vietnam (2004)
bfbc2	Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (2010)
breach	Breach (2011)
breed	Breed (2004)
brink	Brink (2011)
buildandshoot	Build and Shoot / Ace of Spades Classic (2012)
cod	Call of Duty (2003)
cod2	Call of Duty 2 (2005)
cod3	Call of Duty 3 (2006)
cod4	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
codmw2	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
codmw3	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)
coduo	Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004)
codwaw	Call of Duty: World at War (2008)
callofjuarez	Call of Juarez (2006)
chaser	Chaser (2003)
chrome	Chrome (2003)
codenameeagle	Codename Eagle (2000)
cacrenegade	Command and Conquer: Renegade (2002)
commandos3	Commandos 3: Destination Berlin (2003)
conanexiles	Conan Exiles (2018)
contagion	Contagion (2011)
contactjack	Contract J.A.C.K. (2003)
cs15	Counter-Strike 1.5 (2002)
cs16	Counter-Strike 1.6 (2003)
cs2d	Counter-Strike: 2D (2004)
cscz	Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004)
csgo	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012)	Notes
css	Counter-Strike: Source (2004)
crossracing	Cross Racing Championship Extreme 2005 (2005)
crysis	Crysis (2007)
crysis2	Crysis 2 (2011)
crysiswars	Crysis Wars (2008)
daikatana	Daikatana (2000)
dnl	Dark and Light (2017)
dmomam	Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (2006)
darkesthour	Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 (2008)
dod	Day of Defeat (2003)
dods	Day of Defeat: Source (2005)
doi	Day of Infamy (2017)
daysofwar	Days of War (2017)
dayz	DayZ (2018)
dayzmod	DayZ Mod (2013)
deadlydozenpt	Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theater (2002)
dh2005	Deer Hunter 2005 (2004)
descent3	Descent 3 (1999)
deusex	Deus Ex (2000)
devastation	Devastation (2003)
dinodday	Dino D-Day (2011)
dirttrackracing2	Dirt Track Racing 2 (2002)
doom3	Doom 3 (2004)
dota2	Dota 2 (2013)
drakan	Drakan: Order of the Flame (1999)
empyrion	Empyrion - Galactic Survival (2015)
etqw	Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (2007)
fear	F.E.A.R. (2005)
f1c9902	F1 Challenge '99-'02 (2002)
farcry	Far Cry (2004)
farcry2	Far Cry 2 (2008)
f12002	Formula One 2002 (2002)
fortressforever	Fortress Forever (2007)
ffow	Frontlines: Fuel of War (2008)
garrysmod	Garry's Mod (2004)
geneshift mutantfactions	Geneshift (2017)
giantscitizenkabuto	Giants: Citizen Kabuto (2000)
globaloperations	Global Operations (2002)
ges	GoldenEye: Source (2010)
gore	Gore: Ultimate Soldier (2002)
fivem	Grand Theft Auto V - FiveM (2013)
mtasa	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Multi Theft Auto (2004)
mtavc	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Multi Theft Auto (2002)
gunmanchronicles	Gunman Chronicles (2000)
hl2dm	Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (2004)
hldm	Half-Life Deathmatch (1998)
hldms	Half-Life Deathmatch: Source (2005)
halo	Halo (2003)
halo2	Halo 2 (2007)
hll	Hell Let Loose
heretic2	Heretic II (1998)
hexen2	Hexen II (1997)
had2	Hidden & Dangerous 2 (2003)
homefront	Homefront (2011)
homeworld2	Homeworld 2 (2003)
hurtworld	Hurtworld (2015)
igi2	I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike (2003)
il2	IL-2 Sturmovik (2001)
insurgency	Insurgency (2014)
insurgencysandstorm	Insurgency: Sandstorm (2018)
ironstorm	Iron Storm (2002)
jamesbondnightfire	James Bond 007: Nightfire (2002)
jc2mp	Just Cause 2 - Multiplayer (2010)
jc3mp	Just Cause 3 - Multiplayer (2017)
kspdmp	Kerbal Space Program - DMP Multiplayer (2015)
killingfloor	Killing Floor (2009)
killingfloor2	Killing Floor 2 (2016)
kingpin	Kingpin: Life of Crime (1999)
kisspc	Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child (2000)
kzmod	Kreedz Climbing (2017)
left4dead	Left 4 Dead (2008)
left4dead2	Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
m2mp	Mafia II - Multiplayer (2010)
m2o	Mafia II - Online (2010)
moh2010	Medal of Honor (2010)
mohab	Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007)
mohaa	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002)
mohbt	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Breakthrough (2003)
mohsh	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead (2002)
mohpa	Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004)
mohwf	Medal of Honor: Warfighter (2012)
medievalengineers	Medieval Engineers (2015)
minecraft minecraftping	Minecraft (2009)
minecraftpe minecraftbe	Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (2011)
mnc	Monday Night Combat (2011)
mordhau	Mordhau (2019)
mumble	Mumble - GTmurmur Plugin (2005)	Notes
mumbleping	Mumble - Lightweight (2005)	Notes
nascarthunder2004	NASCAR Thunder 2004 (2003)
ns	Natural Selection (2002)
ns2	Natural Selection 2 (2012)
nfshp2	Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002)
nab	Nerf Arena Blast (1999)
netpanzer	netPanzer (2002)
nwn	Neverwinter Nights (2002)
nwn2	Neverwinter Nights 2 (2006)
nexuiz	Nexuiz (2005)
nitrofamily	Nitro Family (2004)
nmrih	No More Room in Hell (2011)
nolf2	No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way (2002)
nucleardawn	Nuclear Dawn (2011)
openarena	OpenArena (2005)
openttd	OpenTTD (2004)
operationflashpoint flashpoint	Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (2001)
flashpointresistance	Operation Flashpoint: Resistance (2002)
painkiller	Painkiller
pixark	PixARK (2018)
postal2	Postal 2
prey	Prey
primalcarnage	Primal Carnage: Extinction
prbf2	Project Reality: Battlefield 2 (2005)
quake1	Quake 1: QuakeWorld (1996)
quake2	Quake 2 (1997)
quake3	Quake 3: Arena (1999)
quake4	Quake 4 (2005)
quakelive	Quake Live (2010)
ragdollkungfu	Rag Doll Kung Fu
r6	Rainbow Six
r6roguespear	Rainbow Six 2: Rogue Spear
r6ravenshield	Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
rallisportchallenge	RalliSport Challenge
rallymasters	Rally Masters
redorchestra	Red Orchestra
redorchestra2	Red Orchestra 2
redorchestraost	Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
redline	Redline
rtcw	Return to Castle Wolfenstein
rfactor	rFactor
ricochet	Ricochet
riseofnations	Rise of Nations
rs2	Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
rune	Rune
rust	Rust
stalker	S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
samp	San Andreas Multiplayer
ss	Serious Sam
ss2	Serious Sam 2
shatteredhorizon	Shattered Horizon
shogo	Shogo
shootmania	Shootmania	Notes
sin	SiN
sinep	SiN Episodes
soldat	Soldat
sof	Soldier of Fortune
sof2	Soldier of Fortune 2
spaceengineers	Space Engineers
squad	Squad
stbc	Star Trek: Bridge Commander
stvef	Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force
stvef2	Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force 2
swjk2	Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (2002)
swjk	Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (2003)
swbf	Star Wars: Battlefront
swbf2	Star Wars: Battlefront 2
swrc	Star Wars: Republic Commando
starbound	Starbound
starmade	StarMade
starsiege	Starsiege (2009)
suicidesurvival	Suicide Survival
svencoop	Sven Coop
swat4	SWAT 4
synergy	Synergy
tacticalops	Tactical Ops
takeonhelicopters	Take On Helicopters (2011)
teamfactor	Team Factor
tf2	Team Fortress 2
tfc	Team Fortress Classic
teamspeak2	Teamspeak 2
teamspeak3	Teamspeak 3	Notes
terminus	Terminus
terraria tshock	Terraria - TShock (2011)	Notes
forrest	The Forrest (2014)
hidden	The Hidden (2005)
nolf	The Operative: No One Lives Forever (2000)
ship	The Ship
graw	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (2006)
graw2	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (2007)
thps3	Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
thps4	Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
thu2	Tony Hawk's Underground 2
towerunite	Tower Unite
trackmania2	Trackmania 2	Notes
trackmaniaforever	Trackmania Forever	Notes
tremulous	Tremulous
tribes1	Tribes 1: Starsiege
tribesvengeance	Tribes: Vengeance
tron20	Tron 2.0
turok2	Turok 2
universalcombat	Universal Combat
unreal	Unreal
ut	Unreal Tournament
ut2003	Unreal Tournament 2003
ut2004	Unreal Tournament 2004
ut3	Unreal Tournament 3
unturned	unturned
urbanterror	Urban Terror
v8supercar	V8 Supercar Challenge
ventrilo	Ventrilo
vcmp	Vice City Multiplayer
vietcong	Vietcong
vietcong2	Vietcong 2
warsow	Warsow
wheeloftime	Wheel of Time
wolfenstein2009	Wolfenstein 2009
wolfensteinet	Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
xpandrally	Xpand Rally
zombiemaster	Zombie Master
zps	Zombie Panic: Source

Not supported (yet)

• Cube Engine (cube):
  • Cube 1
  • Assault Cube
  • Cube 2: Sauerbraten
  • Blood Frontier
• Alien vs Predator
• Armed Assault 2: Operation Arrowhead
• Battlefield Bad Company 2: Vietnam
• BFRIS
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 (no documentation, may require rcon)
• Crysis Warhead
• Days of War
• DirtyBomb
• Doom - Skulltag
• Doom - ZDaemon
• ECO Global Survival (Ref)
• Farming Simulator
• Freelancer
• Ghost Recon
• GRAV Online
• GTA Network (Ref)
• GTR 2
• Haze
• Hexen World
• Lost Heaven
• Multi Theft Auto
• Pariah
• Plain Sight
• Purge Jihad
• Red Eclipse
• Red Faction
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
• Savage: The Battle For Newerth
• Savage 2: A Tortured Soul
• SiN 1 Multiplayer
• South Park
• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
• Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
• Sum of All Fears
• Teeworlds
• Tibia (Ref)
• Titanfall
• Tribes 2
• Unreal 2 XMP
• World in Conflict
• World Opponent Network
• Wurm Unlimited

Want support for one of these games? Please open an issue to show your interest! Know how to code? Protocol details for many of the games above are documented at https://github.com/sonicsnes/legacy-query-library-archive , ready for you to develop into GameDig!

Don't see your game listed here?

First, let us know so we can fix it. Then, you can try using some common query protocols directly by using one of these server types:

• protocol-ase
• protocol-battlefield
• protocol-doom3
• protocol-gamespy1
• protocol-gamespy2
• protocol-gamespy3
• protocol-nadeo
• protocol-quake2
• protocol-quake3
• protocol-unreal2
• protocol-valve

Games with Additional Notes

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

To receive a full player list response from CS:GO servers, the server must have set the cvar: host_players_show 2

Mumble

For full query results from Mumble, you must be running the GTmurmur plugin. If you do not wish to run the plugin, or do not require details such as channel and user lists, you can use the 'mumbleping' server type instead, which uses a less accurate but more reliable solution

Nadeo (ShootMania / TrackMania / etc)

The server must have xmlrpc enabled, and you must pass the xmlrpc port to GameDig, not the connection port. You must have a user account on the server with access level User or higher. Pass the login into to GameDig with the additional options: login, password

TeamSpeak 3

For teamspeak 3 queries to work correctly, the following permissions must be available for the guest server group:

• Virtual Server
• b_virtualserver_info_view
• b_virtualserver_channel_list
• b_virtualserver_client_list
• Group
• b_virtualserver_servergroup_list
• b_virtualserver_channelgroup_list

Terraria

Requires tshock server mod, and a REST user token, which can be passed to GameDig with the additional option: token

Usage from Command Line

Want to integrate server queries from a batch script or other programming language? You'll still need npm to install gamedig:

npm install gamedig -g

After installing gamedig globally, you can call gamedig via the command line:

gamedig --type minecraft mc.example.com:11234

The output of the command will be in JSON format. Additional advanced parameters can be passed in as well: --debug, --pretty, --socketTimeout 5000, etc.

Changelog

2.0.20

• Fixed minecraft protocol never throwing exceptions

2.0.19

• Added Days of War (2017)
• Added The Forrest (2014)
• Added Just Cause 3 Multiplayer (2017)
• Added Project Reality: Battlefield 2 (2005)
• Added Quake Live (2010)
• Added Contagion (2011)
• Added Empyrion: Galactic Survival (2015)
• Added PixARK (2018)

2.0.16, 2.0.17, 2.0.18

• Various improvements to killing floor / unreal2 protocol

2.0.15

• Added Hell Let Loose
• Added Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
• Added Squad
• Fixed DNS lookup not working in some situations when dns.lookup unexpectedly returns a string
• Improved minecraft protocol for non-vanilla server implementations (bedrock, waterfall, bungeecord)
• Updated dependencies

2.0.14

• Node 8 compatibility fixes

2.0.13

• Improved logging

2.0.12

• Servers are now limited to 10000 players to prevent OOM
• Improvements to Starmade (2012)
• Added Atlas (2018)

2.0.11

• Added Acra Sim Racing
• Added Mafia 2: Online

2.0.10

• Added rFactor

2.0.9

• Added Vice City: Multiplayer

2.0.8

• Improve out-of-order packet handling for gamespy1 protocol
• Work-around for buggy duplicate player reporting from bf1942 servers
• Report team names rather than IDs when possible for gamespy1 protocol

2.0.7

• Prevent tcp socket errors from dumping straight to console

2.0.6

• Added support for host domains requiring Punycode encoding (special characters)

2.0.5

• Added support for Counter-Strike: 2D

2.0.4

• Added details about new 2.0 reponse fields to the README.

2.0.3

• Added support for Insurgency: Sandstorm

2.0.2

• Added support for Starsiege 2009 (starsiege)

2.0.1

• Updated readme games list for 2.0
• Fixed csgo default port

2.0.0

Breaking API changes

• Node 8 is now required
• Removed the port_query option. You can now pass either the server's game port or query port in the port option, and GameDig will automatically discover the proper port to query. Passing the query port is more likely be successful in unusual cases, as otherwise it must be automatically derived from the game port.
• Removed callback parameter from Gamedig.query. Only promises are now supported. If you would like to continue using callbacks, you can use node's util.callbackify function to convert the method to callback format.
• Removed query field from response object, as it was poorly documented and unstable.
• Removed notes field from options / response object. Data can be passed through a standard javascript context if needed.

Minor Changes

• Rewrote core to use promises extensively for better error-handling. Async chains have been dramatically simplified by using async/await across the codebase, eliminating callback chains and the 'async' dependency.
• Replaced --output pretty cli parameter with --pretty.
• You can now query from CLI using shorthand syntax: gamedig --type <gameid> <ip>[:<port>]
• UDP socket is only opened if needed by a query.
• Automatic query port detection -- If provided with a non-standard port, gamedig will attempt to discover if it is a game port or query port by querying twice: once to the port provided, and once to the port including the game's query port offset (if available).
• Added new connect field to the response object. This will typically include the game's ip:port (the port will reflect the server's game port, even if you passed in a query port in your request). For some games, this may be a server ID or connection url if an IP:Port is not appropriate.
• Added new ping field (in milliseconds) to the response object. As icmp packets are often blocked by NATs, and node has poor support for raw sockets, this time is derived from the rtt of one of the UDP requests, or the time required to open a TCP socket during the query.
• Improved debug logging across all parts of GameDig
• Removed global Gamedig.debug. debug is now an option on each query.

Protocol Changes

• Added support for games using older versions of battlefield protocol.
• Simplified detection of BC2 when using battlefield protocol.
• Fixed buildandshoot not reading player list
• Standardized all doom3 games into a single protocol, which can discover protocol discrepancies automatically.
• Standardized all gamespy2 games into a single protocol, which can discover protocol discrepancies automatically.
• Standardized all gamespy3 games into a single protocol, which can discover protocol discrepancies automatically.
• Improved valve protocol challenge key retry process

1.0.0

• First official release
• Node.js 6 is now required