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universal-user-agent
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Get a user agent string in both browser and node
const getUserAgent = require('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)
The Node implementation was originally inspired by default-user-agent.
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.
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Get a user agent string across all JavaScript Runtime Environments
The npm package universal-user-agent receives a total of 17,487,916 weekly downloads. As such, universal-user-agent popularity was classified as popular.
We found that universal-user-agent demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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