random-useragent

random-useragent

Description

Get a random user agent (with an optional filter to select from a specific set of user agents).

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install random-useragent

const randomUseragent = require('random-useragent');
randomUseragent.getRandom(); // gets a random user agent string

• Live example on Tonic

Documentation

.getRandom(filter)

Get a random user agent string (optionally using a filter).

Example Result:

'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121202 Firefox/20.0'

.getRandomData(filter)

Get a random user agent's parsed data (optionally using a filter).

Example Result:

{
	"folder": "/Browsers - Windows/Legacy Browsers",
	"description": "Firefox 20.0 (Win 8 32)",
	"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121202 Firefox/20.0",
	"appCodename": "",
	"appName": "",
	"appVersion": "",
	"platform": "",
	"vendor": "",
	"vendorSub": "",
	"browserName": "Firefox",
	"browserMajor": "20",
	"browserVersion": "20.0",
	"deviceModel": "",
	"deviceType": "",
	"deviceVendor": "",
	"engineName": "Gecko",
	"engineVersion": "20.0",
	"osName": "Windows",
	"osVersion": "8",
	"cpuArchitecture": ""
}

.getAll(filter)

Get an array of all the user agent strings (optionally using a filter).

.getAllData(filter)

Get an array of all the parsed user agent data (optionally using a filter).

Examples

Get a random user agent string:

randomUseragent.getRandom();

Get a random Firefox user agent string:

randomUseragent.getRandom(function (ua) {
	return ua.browserName === 'Firefox';
});

Get a random user agent with a version >= 20:

randomUseragent.getRandom(function (ua) {
	return parseFloat(ua.browserVersion) >= 20;
});

Source Of User Agents

The collection of user agents is pulled from the large, regularly updated xml file provided by the author of User Agent Switcher, which is located here:

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Links

• Source Code
• Changelog
• Live example on Tonic

License

Copyright (c) 2014 skratchdot
Licensed under the MIT license.

Changelog

0.5.0 (2020-09-03)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• it's too old to use it :( #8

Merged pull requests:

• Replace var with let or const #11 (DavideViolante)