universal-user-agent
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Get a user agent string across all JavaScript Runtime Environments
The universal-user-agent npm package is designed to generate user-agent strings that can be used in various environments such as Node.js, browsers, and React Native applications. It abstracts away the differences between these environments, providing a unified way to obtain a user-agent string that represents the client making HTTP requests.
Generate User-Agent String
This feature allows you to generate a user-agent string that is appropriate for the environment your code is running in. The generated string includes information about the platform, operating system, and browser or Node.js version, depending on the execution context.
"const userAgent = require('universal-user-agent');
console.log(userAgent());"The 'useragent' package is similar to 'universal-user-agent' in that it allows for the parsing and generation of user-agent strings. However, 'useragent' focuses more on parsing existing user-agent strings to extract detailed information about the client, such as the browser name, version, and operating system. It does not focus on generating user-agent strings for different environments.
Bowser is a package designed to parse user-agent strings and identify browser details, such as name, version, and engine. It is similar to 'universal-user-agent' in its ability to work with user-agent strings, but its primary focus is on parsing and identifying browser characteristics rather than generating user-agent strings. Bowser offers detailed detection capabilities, making it suitable for projects that require in-depth browser analysis.
Get a user agent string across all JavaScript Runtime Environments
import { getUserAgent } from "universal-user-agent";
const userAgent = getUserAgent();
// userAgent will look like this
// in browser: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0"
// in node: Node.js/v8.9.4 (macOS High Sierra; x64)
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Get a user agent string across all JavaScript Runtime Environments
The npm package universal-user-agent receives a total of 7,861,960 weekly downloads. As such, universal-user-agent popularity was classified as popular.
We found that universal-user-agent 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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