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is-ua-bot

useragent parsing for bot identification

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is-ua-bot

An improved user-agent parser to detect bots

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Installation

$ npm install is-ua-bot

Usage

const isBot = require('is-ua-bot')

// just for testing:
const assert = require('assert')

// identifies googlebot as bot (returns true)
assert(isBot('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)'))

// Android Pixel is not a bot (returns false)
assert(!isBot('Android 7.1; Pixel Build/NDE63P)'))

Tests

We have a set of Bot agents in ./test/data/bots.js and a set of known non-bots in ./text/data/not-bots.js. Please contribute!

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npm test

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Package last updated on 26 Mar 2019

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