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Fast browser device uuid generation plugin. The plugin based on express-useragent and written in pure JavaScript, no dependencies.
$ bower install device-uuid --save
or
$ npm install device-uuid --save
Include files in your HTML. The minimum required for this plugin are:
<script src="/path/to/device-uuid.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
automatically create not browser depended uuid:
var uuid = new DeviceUUID().get();
as a result example:
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custom device uuid generation:
var du = new DeviceUUID().parse();
var dua = [
du.language,
du.platform,
du.os,
du.cpuCores,
du.isAuthoritative,
du.silkAccelerated,
du.isKindleFire,
du.isDesktop,
du.isMobile,
du.isTablet,
du.isWindows,
du.isLinux,
du.isLinux64,
du.isMac,
du.isiPad,
du.isiPhone,
du.isiPod,
du.isSmartTV,
du.pixelDepth,
du.isTouchScreen
];
var uuid = du.hashMD5(dua.join(':'));
module provides details such as the following:
{
"isMobile":false,
"isDesktop":true,
"isBot":false,
.....
"browser":"Chrome",
"version":"17.0.963.79",
"os":"Windows 7",
"platform":"Microsoft Windows",
"source":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79..."
}
FAQs
Fast browser device uuid generation library.
The npm package device-uuid receives a total of 6,556 weekly downloads. As such, device-uuid popularity was classified as popular.
We found that device-uuid demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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