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express-useragent is a simple NodeJS/ExpressJS user-agent middleware exposing user-agent details to your application and views.
Installation is done using the Node Package Manager (npm). If you don't have npm installed on your system you can download it from npmjs.org To install express-useragent:
$ npm install express-useragent --save
var http = require('http')
, useragent = require('express-useragent');
var srv = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
var source = req.headers['user-agent'],
ua = useragent.parse(source);
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end(JSON.stringify(ua));
});
srv.listen(3000);
is permanently included
var useragent = require('express-useragent');
module.exports = function (app, express) {
app.use(function () {
app.use(useragent.express());
});
};
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var useragent = require('express-useragent');
app.use(useragent.express());
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.send(req.useragent);
});
app.listen(3000);
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..."
}
If you are using express
or connect
, then express-useragent
provides an easy way to access the user-agent as:
req.useragent
from your app serveruseragent
helper accessible from your express
views.git clone git://github.com/biggora/express-useragent.git
bower install express-useragent
.The client side version of express-useragent available in the lib/
subdirectory.
<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/express-useragent.js"></script>
var userAgent = new UserAgent().parse(navigator.userAgent);
Ensure you have nodeunit by running npm install -g nodeunit
.
Then, run npm test
.
npm install
npm test
npm run-script http
npm run-script express
The following projects use express-useragent.
If you are using express-useragent in a project, app, or module, get on the list below by getting in touch or submitting a pull request with changes to the README.
Aleksejs Gordejevs (aleksej@gordejev.lv).
(The MIT License)
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ExpressJS/Connect/TrinteJS user-agent middleware exposing
The npm package express-useragent receives a total of 157,299 weekly downloads. As such, express-useragent popularity was classified as popular.
We found that express-useragent 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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