# expired > Calculate when HTTP responses expire from the cache headers [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/lukechilds/expired.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/lukechilds/expired) [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/lukechilds/expired/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/lukechilds/expired?branch=master) `expired` accepts HTTP headers as an argument and will return information on when the resource will expire. `Cache-Control` and `Expires` headers are supported, if both exist `Cache-Control` takes priority. ## Install ```shell npm install --save expired ``` ## Usage ```js const expired = require('expired'); const headers = { 'access-control-allow-origin': '*', 'age': '0', 'cache-control': 'public, max-age=300', 'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'content-type': 'application/json;charset=utf-8', 'date': 'Fri, 23 Dec 2016 05:50:31 GMT', 'last-modified': 'Fri, 23 Dec 2016 05:23:23 GMT', 'vary': 'Accept-Encoding, User-Agent', 'via': '1.1 varnish-v4' }; expired(headers) // false expired.in(headers) // 500000 expired.on(headers) // Date('2016-12-23T05:55:31.000Z') delay(600000).then(() => { expired(headers) // true expired.in(headers) // -100000 expired.on(headers) // Date('2016-12-23T05:55:31.000Z') }); ``` You can also pass headers in as raw text: ```js const expired = require('expired'); const headers = ` Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Age: 0 Cache-Control: public, max-age=300 Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 05:50:31 GMT Last-Modified: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 05:23:23 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding, User-Agent Via: 1.1 varnish-v4`; expired(headers) // false ``` ## API ### expired(headers) Returns a boolean relating to whether the resource has expired or not. `true` means it's expired, `false` means it's fresh. ### expired.in(headers) Returns the amount of milliseconds from the current date until the resource will expire. If the resource has already expired it will return a negative integer. ### expired.on(headers) Returns a JavaScript `Date` object for the date the resource will expire. ## License MIT © Luke Childs