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UAParser.js

JavaScript library to detect Browser, Engine, OS, CPU, and Device type/model from User-Agent & Client-Hints data that can be used either in browser (client-side) or node.js (server-side).

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Version 2.0

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Documentation

UAParser([user-agent:string][,extensions:object][,headers:object(since@2.0)]):IData

In browser environment you don’t need to pass the user-agent string to the function, as it should automatically get the string from the window.navigator.userAgent. Whereas in nodejs environment, the user-agent string must be passed in order for the function to work (usually you can find the user-agent in: request.headers["user-agent"]).

Constructor

* new UAParser([user-agent:string][,extensions:object][,headers:object(since@2.0)]):UAParser

When you call UAParser with the new keyword, UAParser will return a new instance with an empty result object, you have to call one of the available methods to get the information from the user-agent string. Like so:

let parser = new UAParser("your user-agent here"); // you need to pass the user-agent for nodejs
console.log(parser); // {}
let parserResults = parser.getResult();
console.log(parserResults);
/* 
  {
    ua      : "",
    browser : {},
    engine  : {},
    os      : {},
    device  : {},
    cpu     : {}
  } 
*/

* UAParser([user-agent:string][,extensions:object][,headers:object(since@2.0)]):IData

When you call UAParser without the new keyword, it will automatically call getResult() function and return the parsed results.

returns result object `{ ua: '', browser: {}, cpu: {}, device: {}, engine: {}, os: {} }`

UAParser:

Methods table

The methods are self explanatory, here’s a small overview on all the available methods:

  • getResult() - returns all function object calls, user-agent string, browser info, cpu, device, engine, os: { ua: '', browser: {}, cpu: {}, device: {}, engine: {}, os: {} }.

  • getBrowser() - returns the browser name and version.

  • getDevice() - returns the device model, type, vendor.

  • getEngine() - returns the current browser engine name and version.

  • getOS() - returns the running operating system name and version.

  • getCPU() - returns CPU architectural design name.

  • getUA() - returns the user-agent string.

  • setUA(ua) - set a custom user-agent to be parsed.

* getResult():IData

returns `{ ua: '', browser: {}, cpu: {}, device: {}, engine: {}, os: {} }`

* getBrowser():IData

returns `{ name: '', version: '' }`

# Possible 'browser.name':
2345Explorer, 360 Browser, Amaya, Android Browser, Arora, Avant, Avast, AVG,
BIDUBrowser, Baidu, Basilisk, Blazer, Bolt, Brave, Bowser, Camino, Chimera,
[Mobile] Chrome [Headless/WebView], Chromium, Cobalt, Comodo Dragon, Dillo,
Dolphin, Doris, DuckDuckGo, Edge, Electron, Epiphany, Facebook, Falkon, Fennec, 
Firebird, [Mobile] Firefox [Focus/Reality], Flock, Flow, GSA, GoBrowser, HeyTap,
Huawei Browser, ICE Browser, IE, IEMobile, IceApe, IceCat, IceDragon, Iceweasel, 
Instagram, Iridium, Iron, Jasmine, Kakao[Story/Talk], K-Meleon, Kindle, Klar, 
Konqueror, LBBROWSER, Line, LinkedIn, Links, Lunascape, Lynx, MIUI Browser, 
Maemo Browser, Maemo, Maxthon, MetaSr Midori, Minimo, Mosaic, Mozilla, NetFront, 
NetSurf, Netfront, Netscape, NokiaBrowser, Obigo, Oculus Browser, OmniWeb, 
Opera Coast, Opera [Mini/Mobi/Tablet], PaleMoon, PhantomJS, Phoenix, Polaris, 
Puffin, QQ, QQBrowser, QQBrowserLite, Quark, QupZilla, RockMelt, [Mobile] Safari, 
Sailfish Browser, Samsung Browser, SeaMonkey, Silk, Skyfire, Sleipnir, Slim, 
SlimBrowser, Snapchat, Swiftfox, Tesla, TikTok, Tizen Browser, UCBrowser, 
UP.Browser, Viera, Vivaldi, Waterfox, WeChat, Weibo, Yandex, baidu, iCab, w3m, 
Whale Browser, ...

# 'browser.version' determined dynamically

* getDevice():IData

returns `{ model: '', type: '', vendor: '' }`

# Possible 'device.type':
console, mobile, tablet, smarttv, wearable, embedded

##########
# NOTE: 'desktop' is not a possible device type. 
# UAParser only reports info directly available from the UA string, which is not the case for 'desktop' device type.
# If you wish to detect desktop devices, you must handle the needed logic yourself.
# You can read more about it in this issue: https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/182
##########

# Possible 'device.vendor':
Acer, Alcatel, Amazon, Apple, Archos, ASUS, AT&T, BenQ, BlackBerry, Dell,
Essential, Facebook, Fairphone, GeeksPhone, Google, HP, HTC, Huawei, Infinix, Jolla, 
Kobo, Lenovo, LG, Meizu, Microsoft, Motorola, Nexian, Nintendo, Nokia, Nvidia, 
OnePlus, OPPO, Ouya, Palm, Panasonic, Pebble, Polytron, Realme, RIM, Roku, Samsung, 
Sharp, Siemens, Sony[Ericsson], Sprint, Tecno, Tesla, Vivo, Vodafone, Xbox, Xiaomi, 
Zebra, ZTE, ...

# 'device.model' determined dynamically

* getEngine():IData

returns `{ name: '', version: '' }`

# Possible 'engine.name'
Amaya, Blink, EdgeHTML, Flow, Gecko, Goanna, iCab, KHTML, LibWeb, Links, Lynx, 
NetFront, NetSurf, Presto, Tasman, Trident, w3m, WebKit

# 'engine.version' determined dynamically

* getOS():IData

returns `{ name: '', version: '' }`

# Possible 'os.name'
AIX, Amiga OS, Android[-x86], Arch, Bada, BeOS, BlackBerry, CentOS, Chromium OS,
Contiki, Fedora, Firefox OS, FreeBSD, Debian, Deepin, DragonFly, elementary OS, 
Fuchsia, Gentoo, GhostBSD, GNU, Haiku, HarmonyOS, HP-UX, Hurd, iOS, Joli, KaiOS, 
Linpus, Linspire,Linux, Mac OS, Maemo, Mageia, Mandriva, Manjaro, MeeGo, Minix, 
Mint, Morph OS, NetBSD, NetRange, NetTV, Nintendo, OpenBSD, OpenVMS, OS/2, Palm, 
PC-BSD, PCLinuxOS, Plan9, PlayStation, QNX, Raspbian, RedHat, RIM Tablet OS, 
RISC OS, Sabayon, Sailfish, SerenityOS, Series40, Slackware, Solaris, SUSE, Symbian, 
Tizen, Ubuntu, Unix, VectorLinux, Viera, watchOS, WebOS, Windows [Phone/Mobile], 
Zenwalk, ...

# 'os.version' determined dynamically

* getCPU():IData

returns `{ architecture: '' }`

# Possible 'cpu.architecture'
68k, amd64, arm[64/hf], avr, ia[32/64], irix[64], mips[64], pa-risc, ppc, sparc[64]

* getUA():string

returns user-agent string of current instance

* setUA(ua:string):UAParser

set user-agent string to be parsed
returns current instance

IData: since@2.0

Methods table

The methods are self explanatory, here’s a small overview on all the available methods:

  • is(value) - returns true if the passed value matches a value of current object, false otherwise
  • toString() - returns the full-name values of current object as a string
  • withClientHints() - returns an object with re-updated data from client hints
  • withFeatureCheck() - returns an object with re-updated data from feature detection

* is(value:string):boolean

// Is just a shorthand comparison to check whether the value of specified item equals one of its properties (in a case-insensitive way)
// so that instead of write it using `==` operator like this:

let ua = UAParser();
let device = ua.device;
let os = ua.os;

if (device.type == "mobile" && os.name != "iOS") {}
if (device.type == "smarttv" || device.vendor == "Samsung") {}

// we can also write the comparison above into as follow:

if (device.is("mobile") && !os.is("iOS")) {}
if (device.is("SmartTV") || device.is("SaMsUnG")) {}

/*
    For device, properties will be checked in this particular order: type, model, vendor
*/

// Another examples:

let uap = new UAParser('Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 635) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537');

uap.getBrowser().name;              // "IEMobile"
uap.getBrowser().is("IEMobile");    // true
uap.getCPU().is("ARM");             // true

uap.getOS().name;                   // "Windows Phone"
uap.getOS().is("Windows Phone");    // true

uap.getDevice();                    // { vendor: "Nokia", model: "Lumia 635", type: "mobile" }
uap.getResult().device;             // { vendor: "Nokia", model: "Lumia 635", type: "mobile" }

let device = uap.getDevice();
device.is("mobile");                // true
device.is("Lumia 635");             // true
device.is("Nokia");                 // true
device.is("iPhone");                // false
uap.getResult().device.is("Nokia"); // true
uap.getResult().device.model;       // "Lumia 635"

uap.setUA("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95 Safari/537.36");

let browser = uap.getBrowser();
browser.is("IEMobile");             // false 
browser.is("Chrome");               // true

uap.getResult().browser.is("Edge"); // false
uap.getResult().os.name             // "Mac OS"
uap.getResult().os.is("Mac OS");    // true
uap.getResult().os.version;         // "10.6.8"

let engine = uap.getEngine();
engine.is("Blink");                 // true

* toString():string

// Retrieve full-name values as a string

/*
    Values will be concatenated following this pattern:
    * browser : name + version
    * cpu : architecture 
    * device : vendor + model
    * engine : name + version
    * os : name + version
*/

// Usage examples

let uap = new UAParser('Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 635) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537');

uap.getDevice();                    // { 
                                    //    vendor: "Nokia", 
                                    //    model: "Lumia 635", 
                                    //    type: "mobile"
                                    // }
uap.getDevice().toString();         // "Nokia Lumia 635"

uap.getResult().os.name;            // "Windows Phone"
uap.getResult().os.version;         // "8.1"
uap.getResult().os.toString();      // "Windows Phone 8.1"

uap.setUA("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95 Safari/537.36");
uap.getBrowser().name;              // "Chrome"
uap.getBrowser().version;           // "28.0.1500.95"
uap.getBrowser().major;             // "28"
uap.getBrowser().toString();        // "Chrome 28.0.1500.95"

let engine = uap.getEngine();
engine.name;                        // "Blink"
engine.version;                     // "28.0.1500.95"
engine.toString();                  // "Blink 28.0.1500.95"

* withClientHints():Promise<IData>|Thenable<IData>|IData

Recently, Chrome limits the information exposed through user-agent and introduces a new experimental set of data called “client-hints”. In browser-environment, obtaining the client-hints data via JavaScript must be done in an asynchronous way. In UAParser you can chain the result object from get* method with withClientHints() to also read the client-hints data from the browser and return the updated data as a Promise.

// client-side example
(async function () {  
    let ua = new UAParser();

    // get browser data from user-agent only :
    let browser = ua.getBrowser();
    console.log('Using User-Agent: ', browser);

    // get browser data from client-hints (with user-agent as fallback) :
    browser = await ua.getBrowser().withClientHints();
    console.log('Using Client-Hints: ', browser);

    // alternatively :
    ua.getBrowser().withClientHints().then(function (browser) {
        console.log('Using Client-Hints: ', browser);
    });
})();

Along with User-Agent HTTP header, Chrome also sends this client-hints data by default under Sec-CH-UA-* HTTP headers in each request. In server-side development, you can capture this extra information by passing the req.headers to UAParser() (see examples below). When using withClientHints() in nodejs environment and browser without client-hints support (basically anything that’s not Chromium-based), it will returns a new object with updated data.

// server-side example

// Suppose we got a request having these HTTP headers: 
const request = {
    headers : {
        'user-agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',

        'sec-ch-ua-mobile' : '?1',
        'sec-ch-ua-model' : 'Galaxy S3 Marketing',
        'sec-ch-ua-platform' : 'Android'
    }
};

const result1 = UAParser(request.headers);                      // parse only "user-agent" header
const result2 = UAParser(request.headers).withClientHints();    // update with "sec-ch-ua" headers

console.log(result1.os.name);       // "Linux"
console.log(result1.device.type);   // undefined
console.log(result1.device.model);  // undefined

console.log(result2.os.name);       // "Android"
console.log(result2.device.type);   // "mobile"
console.log(result2.device.model);  // "Galaxy S3 Marketing"

new UAParser(request.headers)
        .getBrowser()
        .withClientHints()
        .then((browser) => {
    console.log(browser.toString());    // Chrome 110.0.0.0 
});

* withFeatureCheck():IData

This method allows us to examine other features beyond navigator.userAgent to further improve detection of the following:

  • browser : Brave (check for navigator.isBrave)
  • device : iPad (check for navigator.standalone & navigator.maxTouchPoints)
// suppose this code runs on iPad
const withoutFeatureCheck = UAParser();
const withFeatureCheck = UAParser().withFeatureCheck();

console.log(withoutFeatureCheck.device); // { vendor : "Apple", model : "Macintosh", type : undefined }
console.log(withFeatureCheck.device);    // { vendor : "Apple", model : "iPad", type : "tablet" }

Extending Regex

If you want to detect something that’s not currently provided by UAParser.js (eg: bots, specific apps, etc), you can pass a list of regexes to extend internal UAParser.js regexes with your own.

  • UAParser([uastring,] extensions [,headers:object(since@2.0)])
// Example:
const myOwnListOfBrowsers = [
    [/(mybrowser)\/([\w\.]+)/i], [UAParser.BROWSER.NAME, UAParser.BROWSER.VERSION, ['type', 'bot']]
];

const myUA = 'Mozilla/5.0 MyBrowser/1.3';

let myParser = new UAParser({ browser: myOwnListOfBrowsers });

console.log(myParser.setUA(myUA).getBrowser());  // {name: "MyBrowser", version: "1.3", major: "1", type : "bot"}
console.log(myParser.getBrowser().is('bot'));    // true

// Another example:
const myOwnListOfDevices = [
    [/(mytab) ([\w ]+)/i], [UAParser.DEVICE.VENDOR, UAParser.DEVICE.MODEL, [UAParser.DEVICE.TYPE, UAParser.DEVICE.TABLET]],
    [/(myphone)/i], [UAParser.DEVICE.VENDOR, [UAParser.DEVICE.TYPE, UAParser.DEVICE.MOBILE]]
];

const myUA2 = 'Mozilla/5.0 MyTab 14 Pro Max';

let myParser2 = new UAParser({
    browser: myOwnListOfBrowsers,
    device: myOwnListOfDevices
});

console.log(myParser2.setUA(myUA2).getDevice());  // {vendor: "MyTab", model: "14 Pro Max", type: "tablet"}

Some basic extensions (although not very complete at the moment) can also be found under ua-parser-js/extensions submodule.

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { Emails } from 'ua-parser-js/extensions';

const browser = new UAParser(Emails)
                        .setUA('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0')
                        .getBrowser();

console.log(browser.name); // Thunderbird

Usage

Using HTML

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="ua-parser.min.js"></script>
<script>

    var uap = new UAParser();
    console.log(uap.getResult());
    /*
        /// This will print an object structured like this:
        {
            ua: "",
            browser: {
                name: "",
                version: "",
                major: ""
            },
            engine: {
                name: "",
                version: ""
            },
            os: {
                name: "",
                version: ""
            },
            device: {
                model: "",
                type: "",
                vendor: ""
            },
            cpu: {
                architecture: ""
            }
        }
    */
    // Default result depends on current window.navigator.userAgent value

    // Now let's try a custom user-agent string as an example
    var uastring1 = "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";
    uap.setUA(uastring1);
    var result = uap.getResult();
    // You can also use UAParser constructor directly without having to create an instance:
    // var ua = UAParser(uastring1);

    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(uap.setUA(uastring2).getBrowser().name); // "Konqueror"
    console.log(uap.getOS());                            // {name: "OpenBSD", version: undefined}
    console.log(uap.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(uap.setUA(uastring3).getDevice().model); // "PlayBook"
    console.log(uap.getOS())                             // {name: "RIM Tablet OS", version: "1.0.0"}
    console.log(uap.getBrowser().name);                  // "Safari"

</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Using node.js

Note: Device information is not available in the NodeJS environment.

$ npm install ua-parser-js
var http = require('http');
var uap = require('ua-parser-js');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    // get user-agent header
    var ua = uap(req.headers['user-agent']);

    /* // BEGIN since@2.0 - you can also pass client-hints data to UAParser

    // note: only works in secure context (https:// or localhost or file://)

    var getHighEntropyValues = 'Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List, Sec-CH-UA-Mobile, Sec-CH-UA-Model, Sec-CH-UA-Platform, Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version, Sec-CH-UA-Arch, Sec-CH-UA-Bitness';
    res.setHeader('Accept-CH', getHighEntropyValues);
    res.setHeader('Critical-CH', getHighEntropyValues);
    
    var ua = uap(req.headers).withClientHints();

    // END since@2.0 */

    // 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/');

Using ES Modules

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';

const { browser, cpu, device } = UAParser('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-GB; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090928 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.4.1.22 RX-51 N900');

console.log(browser.name);          // Maemo Browser
console.log(cpu.is('arm'));         // true
console.log(device.is('mobile'));   // true
console.log(device.model);          // N900

Using TypeScript

$ npm install --save @types/ua-parser-js
# Download TS type definition from DefinitelyTyped repository:
# https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/ua-parser-js

Using jQuery/Zepto ($.ua)

Although written in vanilla js, this library will automatically detect if jQuery/Zepto is present and create $.ua object (with values based on its User-Agent) along with window.UAParser constructor. To get/set user-agent you can use: $.ua.get() / $.ua.set(uastring).

// Say we are in a 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':

// Get the details
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"

// Now lets try to reset to another 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

// Add class to <body> tag
// <body class="ua-browser-safari ua-devicetype-tablet">
$('body').addClass('ua-browser-' + $.ua.browser.name + ' ua-devicetype-' + $.ua.device.type);

Development

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License

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Copyright (c) 2012-2023 Faisal Salman <f@faisalman.com>

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