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browser-dtector

A Javascript library to detect browser, version and platform

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A Javascript library to detect browser, version and platform

Getting Started

Installation

Install via Package managers such as npm or yarn

npm install browser-dtector --save
# or
yarn add browser-dtector

or use cdn

Minified:

//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-dtector@latest/browser-dtector.min.js

Pretty Printed:

//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-dtector@latest/browser-dtector.js

Usage

This library is compiled to UMD format, you should be able to use it in both Node.js and browser.

import BrowserDtector from 'browser-dtector';

const browser = new BrowserDtector(window.navigator.userAgent);
browser.parseUserAgent();

Usage in Node.js:

Note: while using in nodejs, it is mandatory to input useragent.

const http = require('http');
const BrowserDtector = require('browser-dtector');

const browser = new BrowserDtector();

http.createServer((req, res)=> {
    // get user-agent header
    const ua = browser.parseUserAgent(req.headers['user-agent']);
    // write the result as response
    res.end(JSON.stringify(ua, null, 4));
})
.listen(8080, '127.0.0.1');

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8080/');

Usage in HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html lang="en">

  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <title>BrowserDtector</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    Hello World!
    <script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-dtector@latest/browser-dtector.min.js"></script>
    <script>
      const browser = new window.BrowserDtector(window.navigator.userAgent); // or new BrowserDtector()
      console.log(browser.parseUserAgent())
    </script>
  </body>

</html>

Supported Browsers

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Safari
  • Opera
  • Samsung Browser

Supported Platforms

  • Macintosh
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • Windows Phone
  • Android
  • Android Tablet
  • IPad
  • IPhone
  • Chrome OS
  • Microsoft Xbox

Demo

API

Sample

import BrowserDtector from 'browser-dtector';

const browser = new BrowserDtector(window.navigator.userAgent);
browser.parseUserAgent();

  • parseUserAgent() [object]: Returns parsed useragent info

    {
  "name": "Google Chrome",
  "platform": "Macintosh",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) ...",
  "version": "71.0.3578.98",
  "shortVersion": "71",
  "isAndroid": false,
  "isTablet": false,
  "isMobile": false,
  "isDesktop": true,
  "isWebkit": true,
  "isIE": false
}

  • getBrowserInfo() [object]: Returns a minimal and necessary browser info.

    {
  "name": "Google Chrome",
  "platform": "Macintosh",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) ...",
  "version": "71.0.3578.98",
  "shortVersion": "71"
}

  • getBrowserName() [string]: Returns name of the browser. e.g. Google Chrome

  • getBrowserVersion() [string]: Returns complete browser version. e.g. 71.0.3578.98

  • getBrowserShortVersion() [string]: Returns shorter browser version. e.g. 71

  • getPlatformName() [string]: Returns name of the device e.g. Macintosh

Miscellaneous:

  • userAgent [string]: Useragent for current instance
  • __VERSION__ [string]: Current version of browser-detector library.

Keywords

browser
detector
browser-dtector
browser-detector
useragent
useragent-parser

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Package last updated on 24 Jan 2019

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