device-detector

device-detector

Simple tool for detecting device info in Node.js and web browsers. Support almost popular browsers and bots.

Contents

• Setup
• Usage
• Test

Setup

In Node.js:

npm install device-detector

And then:

    var DeviceDetector = require('device-detector');

In the browsers

Assuming there is a file device-detector.min.js located at "/public/js/lib/", the following ways can be used to include DeviceDetector:

Using SystemJS

    System.config({
        baseURL: '/public/js/lib',
        map: {
            DeviceDetector: 'device-detector.min'
        }
    });

    System.import('DeviceDetector').then(function(DeviceDetector){
        console.log(DeviceDetector.info);
    });

Using RequireJS

    require.config({
        baseUrl: '/public/js/lib',
        paths: {
            DeviceDetector: 'device-detector.min'
        }
    });

    requirejs('DeviceDetector', function(DeviceDetector){
        console.log(DeviceDetector.info);
    });

Using traditional script tag

<script type="text/javascript" src="/public/js/lib/device-detector.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
console.log(DeviceDetector.info);
</script>

Usage

DeviceDetector provides just one method named "parse".

DeviceDetector.parse([userAgent]);

The only parameter "userAgent" is optional in web browser, but required in Node.js environment.

For example:

var ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)';
var deviceInfo = DeviceDetector.parse(ua);

deviceInfo is an object looks like this:

  {
    type: 'Bot',
    browser: '',
    engine: 'Googlebot',
    version: '2.1',
    os: ''
  }

Another example, you can see how it will be used with ExpressJS and morgan to show shorter logs:

var express = require('express');
var morgan = require('morgan');
var DeviceDetector = require('device-detector');

var app = express();

morgan.token('navigator', function(req, res){
  var ua = req.headers['user-agent'];
  var d = DeviceDetector.parse(ua);
  if(d){
    if(d.type === 'Bot'){
      return d.engine + ' ' + d.version;
    }
    return (d.browser + ' ' + d.version) + ', ' + (d.os + ' ' + d.type);
  }
  return 'Unknown device';
});

app.use(morgan(':method :url :status - :res[content-length] bytes :response-time ms - :navigator - [:date[web]]'));

Logging result:

GET /bookings 200 - 23324 bytes 1380.019 ms - Chrome 45.0.2454.93, Linux Desktop - [Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:54:11 GMT]
GET /notifications 200 - 1757 bytes 29.730 ms - Chrome 45.0.2454.93, Linux Desktop - [Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:54:12 GMT]
GET /profile 200 - 33805 bytes 619.092 ms - Chrome 45.0.2454.93, Linux Desktop - [Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:54:20 GMT]
...

In the browsers, this method automatically executes and its result - current browser info - is being set to DeviceDetector.info property.

Also, if you don't pass "userAgent" parameter while calling "parse" method, it will return DeviceDetector.info instead of parsing again.

Test

git clone https://github.com/ndaidong/device-detector.git
cd device-detector
npm install
npm test

License

The MIT License (MIT)