Cross-platform native method to receive the list of the launched processes

    

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``bash
npm i process-list


or


yarn add process-list
`

It's that easy! npm will download one of the prebuilt binaries for your OS. If you need to build process-list, see node-gyp for more details.

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* Windows Windows 7+, Windows Server 2008 R2+
* Linux any Linux-based distributives
OS X Soon...*

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`js
const { snapshot } = require("process-list");

const tasks = await snapshot('pid', 'name');
console.log(tasks);

// output
// [{
// name: "1.exe",
// pid: 1234,
// }, ... ]
`

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##### snapshot(...field: String): Promise<[]Object>
Returns the list of the launched processes.

##### allowedFields: []String
List of allowed fields.

* pid: Number - process pid
* ppid: Number - parent process pid
* name: String - process name (title)
* path: String - full path to the process binary file
* threads: Number - threads per process
* owner: String - the owner of the process (very time intensive on windows depending on elevation, can take 20 seconds or more)
* priority: Number - an os-specific process priority
* cmdline: String - full command line of the process
* starttime: Date - the process start date / time (time intensive on windows, can take 200-400ms depending on the system)
* vmem: String - virtual memory size in bytes used by process
* pmem: String - physical memory size in bytes used by process
* cpu: Number - cpu usage by process in percent (time intensive on windows, can take 200-400ms depending on the system)
* utime: String - amount of time in ms that this process has been scheduled in user mode
* stime: String` - amount of time that in ms this process has been scheduled in kernel mode

License

MIT, Copyright © 2014 - 2019 Dmitry Tsvettsikh