browser-dtector
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A Javascript library to detect browser, version and platform
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.umd.min.js
Pretty Printed:
//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-dtector@latest/browser-dtector.umd.js
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>
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:
string]: Useragent for current instancestring]: Current version of browser-detector library.FAQs
A Javascript library to detect browser, version and platform
The npm package browser-dtector receives a total of 15,155 weekly downloads. As such, browser-dtector popularity was classified as popular.
We found that browser-dtector demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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