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browser-dtector
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browser-dtector 
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.umd.min.js
Pretty Printed:
//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-dtector@latest/browser-dtector.umd.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 Edge
- Safari
- Brave Browser
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Opera
- Samsung Browser
Supported Platforms
- Macintosh
- Microsoft Windows
- Linux
- Windows Phone
- Android
- Android Tablet
- IPad
- IPhone
- Chrome OS
- Microsoft Xbox
Demo
- Browser Detector: https://sibiraj-s.github.io/browser-dtector/#/
- UserAgent Parser: https://sibiraj-s.github.io/browser-dtector/#/ua-parser/
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" } -
userAgent [
string | null]: Useragent for current instance
Miscellaneous:
- BrowserDtector.VERSION [
string]: Current version of the library.
FAQs
A Javascript library to detect browser, version and platform
The npm package browser-dtector receives a total of 7,095 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.
Package last updated on 14 Dec 2020
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