universal-user-agent

What is universal-user-agent?

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.

What are universal-user-agent's main functionalities?

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());"

Other packages similar to universal-user-agent

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

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.

README

universal-user-agent

Get a user agent string in both browser and node

const { getUserAgent } = require("universal-user-agent");
// or 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)

Credits

The Node implementation was originally inspired by default-user-agent.

License

ISC