ua-parser-js
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Package description
The ua-parser-js package is a utility for parsing user agent strings. It can be used to extract detailed information about the browser, engine, OS, CPU, and device from the user agent string provided by the client's browser.
Browser Detection
This feature allows you to detect the browser name and version from the user agent string.
const UAParser = require('ua-parser-js');
const parser = new UAParser();
const browser = parser.getBrowser();
console.log(browser);Operating System Detection
This feature enables you to determine the operating system and its version from the user agent string.
const UAParser = require('ua-parser-js');
const parser = new UAParser();
const os = parser.getOS();
console.log(os);Device Detection
With this feature, you can identify the device type, vendor, and model from the user agent string.
const UAParser = require('ua-parser-js');
const parser = new UAParser();
const device = parser.getDevice();
console.log(device);Engine Detection
This feature allows you to extract the layout engine name and version from the user agent string.
const UAParser = require('ua-parser-js');
const parser = new UAParser();
const engine = parser.getEngine();
console.log(engine);CPU Architecture Detection
This feature provides information about the CPU architecture from the user agent string.
const UAParser = require('ua-parser-js');
const parser = new UAParser();
const cpu = parser.getCPU();
console.log(cpu);The 'device' package is another npm package that allows you to parse user agent strings to determine device type (phone, tablet, desktop, etc.). It is simpler than ua-parser-js and does not provide detailed information about browser, engine, or OS.
The 'platform' package is used for parsing and interpreting user agent strings. It provides information about the operating system, browser, and device in a structured format. It is similar to ua-parser-js but has a different API and may offer different levels of detail in the results.
Bowser is a browser detection library that is similar to ua-parser-js. It focuses on identifying browser type, version, and engine. It also provides methods to check if the browser matches certain criteria, which can be useful for feature detection and browser-specific adjustments.
Readme
Lightweight JavaScript-based User-Agent string parser. Supports browser & node.js environment. Also available as jQuery/Zepto plugin, Component/Bower/Meteor package, & RequireJS/AMD module
Extract detailed type of web browser, layout engine, operating system, cpu architecture, and device type/model purely from user-agent string with relatively lightweight footprint (~11KB minified / ~4KB gzipped). Written in vanilla js, which means it doesn't depends on any other library.
getBrowser()
{ name: '', version: '' }# Possible 'browser.name':
Amaya, Android Browser, Arora, Avant, Baidu, Blazer, Bolt, Camino, Chimera, Chrome,
Chromium, Comodo Dragon, Conkeror, Dillo, Dolphin, Doris, Edge, Epiphany, Fennec,
Firebird, Firefox, Flock, GoBrowser, iCab, ICE Browser, IceApe, IceCat, IceDragon,
Iceweasel, IE [Mobile], Iron, Jasmine, K-Meleon, Konqueror, Kindle, Links,
Lunascape, Lynx, Maemo, Maxthon, Midori, Minimo, MIUI Browser, [Mobile] Safari,
Mosaic, Mozilla, Netfront, Netscape, NetSurf, Nokia, OmniWeb, Opera [Mini/Mobi/Tablet],
Phoenix, Polaris, QQBrowser, RockMelt, Silk, Skyfire, SeaMonkey, SlimBrowser, Swiftfox,
Tizen, UCBrowser, Vivaldi, w3m, Yandex
# 'browser.version' determined dynamically
getDevice()
{ model: '', type: '', vendor: '' }# Possible 'device.type':
console, mobile, tablet, smarttv, wearable, embedded
# Possible 'device.vendor':
Acer, Alcatel, Amazon, Apple, Archos, Asus, BenQ, BlackBerry, Dell, GeeksPhone,
Google, HP, HTC, Huawei, Jolla, Lenovo, LG, Meizu, Microsoft, Motorola, Nexian,
Nintendo, Nokia, Nvidia, Ouya, Palm, Panasonic, Polytron, RIM, Samsung, Sharp,
Siemens, Sony-Ericsson, Sprint, Xbox, ZTE
# 'device.model' determined dynamically
getEngine()
{ name: '', version: '' }# Possible 'engine.name'
Amaya, EdgeHTML, Gecko, iCab, KHTML, Links, Lynx, NetFront, NetSurf, Presto,
Tasman, Trident, w3m, WebKit
# 'engine.version' determined dynamically
getOS()
{ name: '', version: '' }# Possible 'os.name'
AIX, Amiga OS, Android, Arch, Bada, BeOS, BlackBerry, CentOS, Chromium OS, Contiki,
Fedora, Firefox OS, FreeBSD, Debian, DragonFly, Gentoo, GNU, Haiku, Hurd, iOS,
Joli, Linpus, Linux, Mac OS, Mageia, Mandriva, MeeGo, Minix, Mint, Morph OS, NetBSD,
Nintendo, OpenBSD, OpenVMS, OS/2, Palm, PCLinuxOS, Plan9, Playstation, QNX, RedHat,
RIM Tablet OS, RISC OS, Sailfish, Series40, Slackware, Solaris, SUSE, Symbian, Tizen,
Ubuntu, UNIX, VectorLinux, WebOS, Windows [Phone/Mobile], Zenwalk
# 'os.version' determined dynamically
getCPU()
{ architecture: '' }# Possible 'cpu.architecture'
68k, amd64, arm, arm64, avr, ia32, ia64, irix, irix64, mips, mips64, pa-risc,
ppc, sparc, sparc64
getResult()
{ ua: '', browser: {}, cpu: {}, device: {}, engine: {}, os: {} }getUA()
setUA(uastring)
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ua-parser.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var parser = new UAParser();
// by default it takes ua string from current browser's window.navigator.userAgent
console.log(parser.getResult());
/*
/// this will print an object structured like this:
{
ua: "",
browser: {
name: "",
version: ""
},
engine: {
name: "",
version: ""
},
os: {
name: "",
version: ""
},
device: {
model: "",
type: "",
vendor: ""
},
cpu: {
architecture: ""
}
}
*/
// let's test a custom user-agent string as an example
var uastring = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/15.0.874.106 Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2";
parser.setUA(uastring);
var result = parser.getResult();
// this will also produce the same result (without instantiation):
// var result = UAParser(uastring);
console.log(result.browser); // {name: "Chromium", version: "15.0.874.106"}
console.log(result.device); // {model: undefined, type: undefined, vendor: undefined}
console.log(result.os); // {name: "Ubuntu", version: "11.10"}
console.log(result.os.version); // "11.10"
console.log(result.engine.name); // "WebKit"
console.log(result.cpu.architecture); // "amd64"
// do some other tests
var uastring2 = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.1; OpenBSD) KHTML/4.1.4 (like Gecko)";
console.log(parser.setUA(uastring2).getBrowser().name); // "Konqueror"
console.log(parser.getOS()); // {name: "OpenBSD", version: undefined}
console.log(parser.getEngine()); // {name: "KHTML", version: "4.1.4"}
var uastring3 = 'Mozilla/5.0 (PlayBook; U; RIM Tablet OS 1.0.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.1.0.7 Safari/534.11';
console.log(parser.setUA(uastring3).getDevice().model); // "PlayBook"
console.log(parser.getOS()) // {name: "RIM Tablet OS", version: "1.0.0"}
console.log(parser.getBrowser().name); // "Safari"
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
$ npm install ua-parser-js
var http = require('http');
var parser = require('ua-parser-js');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
// get user-agent header
var ua = parser(req.headers['user-agent']);
// write the result as response
res.end(JSON.stringify(ua, null, ' '));
})
.listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
require(['ua-parser'], function(UAParser) {
var parser = new UAParser();
console.log(parser.getResult());
});
$ component install faisalman/ua-parser-js
$ bower install ua-parser-js
$ meteor add faisalman:ua-parser-js
Although written in vanilla js (which means it doesn't depends on jQuery), this library will automatically detect if jQuery/Zepto is present and create $.ua object based on browser's user-agent (although in case you need, window.UAParser constructor is still present). To get/set user-agent you can use: $.ua.get() / $.ua.set(uastring).
// In browser with default user-agent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; Sprint APA7373KT Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0':
// Do some tests
console.log($.ua.device); // {vendor: "HTC", model: "Evo Shift 4G", type: "mobile"}
console.log($.ua.os); // {name: "Android", version: "2.3.4"}
console.log($.ua.os.name); // "Android"
console.log($.ua.get()); // "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; Sprint APA7373KT Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0"
// reset to custom user-agent
$.ua.set('Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.0.1; en-us; Xoom Build/HWI69) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13');
// Test again
console.log($.ua.browser.name); // "Safari"
console.log($.ua.engine.name); // "Webkit"
console.log($.ua.device); // {vendor: "Motorola", model: "Xoom", type: "tablet"}
console.log(parseInt($.ua.browser.version.split('.')[0], 10)); // 4
UAParser(uastring[, extensions])Pass your own regexes to extend the limited matching rules.
// Example:
var uaString = 'ownbrowser/1.3';
var ownBrowser = [[/(ownbrowser)\/([\w\.]+)/i], [UAParser.BROWSER.NAME, UAParser.BROWSER.VERSION]];
var parser = new UAParser(uaString, {browser: ownBrowser});
console.log(parser.getBrowser()); // {name: "ownbrowser", version: "1.3"}
Verify, test, & minify script
$ npm run test
$ npm run build
Then submit a pull request to https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js under develop branch.
Dual licensed under GPLv2 & MIT
Copyright © 2012-2015 Faisal Salman <fyzlman@gmail.com>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
FAQs
Detect Browser, Engine, OS, CPU, and Device type/model from User-Agent data. Supports browser & node.js environment
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