browser-dtector
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browser-dtector Tests

A Javascript library to detect browser, version and platform

Getting Started

Installation

Install via Package managers such as npm or yarn

npm install browser-dtector --save
# or
yarn add browser-dtector

or use cdn

//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-dtector@latest/dist/browser-dtector.js

Usage

This library exports both ESM and CJS formats, you should be able to use it in both Node.js and browser.

import BrowserDetector from 'browser-dtector';

const browser = new BrowserDetector(window.navigator.userAgent);
browser.parseUserAgent();

Usage in Node.js:

Note: while using in nodejs, it is mandatory to input useragent.

const http = require('http');
const { BrowserDetector } = require('browser-dtector');

const browser = new BrowserDetector();

http
  .createServer((req, res) => {
    // get user-agent header
    const ua = browser.parseUserAgent(req.headers['user-agent']);
    // write the result as response
    res.end(JSON.stringify(ua, null, 4));
  })
  .listen(8080, '127.0.0.1');

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8080/');

Usage in HTML:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
    <title>BrowserDetector</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    Hello World!
    <script type="module">
      import BrowserDetector from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/browser-dtector/dist/browser-dtector.js';

      const detector = new BrowserDetector(window.navigator.userAgent);
      console.log(detector.parseUserAgent());
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Supported Browsers

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Safari
  • Brave
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Opera
  • Samsung Browser
  • Electron

Supported Platforms

  • Macintosh
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • Windows Phone
  • Android
  • Android Tablet
  • IPad
  • IPhone
  • Chrome OS
  • Microsoft Xbox

Demo

API

Sample

import BrowserDetector from 'browser-dtector';

const browser = new BrowserDetector(window.navigator.userAgent);
browser.parseUserAgent();
  • parseUserAgent() [object]: Returns parsed useragent info

    {
      "name": "Google Chrome",
      "platform": "Macintosh",
      "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) ...",
      "version": "71.0.3578.98",
      "shortVersion": "71",
      "isAndroid": false,
      "isTablet": false,
      "isMobile": false,
      "isDesktop": true,
      "isWebkit": true,
      "isIE": false
    }
  • getBrowserInfo() [object]: Returns a minimal and necessary browser info.

    {
      "name": "Google Chrome",
      "platform": "Macintosh",
      "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) ...",
      "version": "71.0.3578.98",
      "shortVersion": "71"
    }
  • userAgent [string | null]: Useragent for current instance

Miscellaneous:

  • BrowserDetector.VERSION [string]: Current version of the library.

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