prx-podagent

PRX Podcast User-Agent Parser

Description

Basic User-Agent string parser that includes some basic podcasting apps. This project is intended to help parse/group requests for analytics purposes, not for browser feature detection.

The included agents.lock.yml also includes name/type/os IDs, in case you want to normalize the strings in your database.

Install

Just npm install --save prx-podagent. It's that easy!

Usage

Async (recommended):

const podagent = require('prx-podagent');
podagent.parse('some-string', (err, agent) => {
  if (agent) {
    console.log('Match:', agent.name, agent.type, agent.os);
  } else {
    console.log('Did not match any known agents');
  }
});

Sync:

const podagent = require('prx-podagent');
let agent = podagent.parse('some-string');
if (agent) {
  console.log('Match:', agent.name, agent.type, agent.os);
} else {
  console.log('Did not match any known agents');
}

Development

Basic tests are located in the /test directory, and can be run with npm test.

Additionally, there is a test/support/testagents.csv file containing some actual production logs. The "coverage" and "omissions" tests use this file to check that the database file accounts for all the major known user agents.

To add a new user agent:

1. Add some lines to testagents.csv with your new user agent. Give them a high count like "9999" and run the tests to make sure they show up in the omissions.
2. Edit the db/agents.yml to include a regular expression, then a name for the app and the type/os (if known). Try to be reasonably specific with your regex, so that you don't unintentionally match other user agents.
3. Run npm lock to regenerate the db/agents.lock.yml. This file normalizes the text tags/labels shared between the various matchers. Check that your change didn't add any unexpected new tags (if you accidentally changed the case of a label or something).
4. Re-run the tests to validate that your agent strings are no longer in the omissions test.

License

MIT License

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request