ua-parser
is a multi-language port of BrowserScope's user agent string parser.
The crux of the original parser--the data collected by Steve Souders over the years--has been extracted into a separate YAML file so as to be reusable as is by implementations in other programming languages.
ua-parser
is just a small wrapper around this data, along with ongoing improvements to the definitions.
- C#: Søren Enemærke (@sorenenemaerke)
- D: Shripad K (@24shri)
- Go: Yihuan Zhou (@yihuanz)
- Haskell: Ozgun Ataman (@ozataman)
- Java: Steve Jiang (@sjiang)
- JavaScript: Tobie Langel (@tobie)
- Perl: Mamod Mehyar (@mamod)
- PHP: Lars Strojny (@lstrojny)
- Pig: Niels Basjes (@nielsbasjes)
- Python: Lindsey Simon (@elsigh)
regexes.yaml
: Lindsey Simon & Tobie Langel
- irc (#ua-parser on freenode) irc://chat.freenode.net#ua-parser
- mailing list
Please read the contributors' guide
There are a few other libraries which make use of ua-parser's patterns. These include:
- Ruby - user_agent_parser
whatsmyua.info shows what ua-parser reports for your current user agent/OS/device, or for any arbitrary user agent string.
Usage :: node.js
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
var r = require('ua-parser').parse(req.headers['user-agent']);
console.log(r.ua.toString()); // -> "Safari 5.0.1"
console.log(r.ua.toVersionString()); // -> "5.0.1"
console.log(r.ua.family) // -> "Safari"
console.log(r.ua.major); // -> "5"
console.log(r.ua.minor); // -> "0"
console.log(r.ua.patch); // -> "1"
console.log(r.os.toString()); // -> "iOS 5.1"
console.log(r.os.toVersionString()); // -> "5.1"
console.log(r.os.family) // -> "iOS"
console.log(r.os.major); // -> "5"
console.log(r.os.minor); // -> "1"
console.log(r.os.patch); // -> null
console.log(r.device.family); // -> "iPhone"
}).listen(3000);
Note if you're only interested in one of the ua
, device
or os
objects, you will getter better performance by using the more specific methods (uaParser.parseUA
, uaParser.parseOS
and uaParser.parseDevice
respectively), e.g.:
var http = require('http'),
p = require('ua-parser');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
var userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'];
console.log(p.parseUA(userAgent).toString());
// -> "Safari 5.0.1"
console.log(p.parseOS(userAgent).toString());
// -> "iOS 5.1"
console.log(p.parseDevice(userAgent).toString());
// -> "iPhone"
}).listen(3000);
You can install ua-parser
by running:
pip install pyyaml ua-parser
And here's how to use it:
from ua_parser import user_agent_parser
# On the server, you could use a WebOB request object.
user_agent_string = request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT')
# For demonstration purposes, though an iPhone ...
user_agent_string = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B179 Safari/7534.48.3'
# Get back a big dictionary of all the goodies.
result_dict = user_agent_parser.Parse(user_agent_string)
print result_dict['user_agent']
# {'major': '5', 'minor': '1', 'family': 'Mobile Safari', 'patch': None}
print result_dict['os']
# {'major': '5', 'patch_minor': None, 'minor': '1', 'family': 'iOS', 'patch': None}
print result_dict['device']
# {'family': 'iPhone'}
import ua_parser.Parser;
import ua_parser.Client;
...
String uaString = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3";
Parser uaParser = new Parser();
Client c = uaParser.parse(uaString);
System.out.println(c.userAgent.family); // => "Mobile Safari"
System.out.println(c.userAgent.major); // => "5"
System.out.println(c.userAgent.minor); // => "1"
System.out.println(c.os.family); // => "iOS"
System.out.println(c.os.major); // => "5"
System.out.println(c.os.minor); // => "1"
System.out.println(c.device.family); // => "iPhone"
For Pig there are UDFs for getting a single value and UDFs for getting a tuple with all values for either Device, Os of UserAgent. For most usecases the tuple UDFs will be the most useful.
REGISTER ua-parser-pig-0.1-SNAPSHOT-job.jar
DEFINE Device ua_parser.pig.Device;
DEFINE Os ua_parser.pig.Os;
DEFINE UserAgent ua_parser.pig.UserAgent;
UserAgents =
Load 'useragents.txt' AS (useragent:chararray);
AgentSpecs =
FOREACH UserAgents
GENERATE
Device(useragent) AS Device,
Os(useragent) AS Os,
UserAgent(useragent) AS UserAgent,
useragent AS Useragent;
DESCRIBE AgentSpecs;
DUMP AgentSpecs;
The versions that return only a single value:
REGISTER ua-parser-pig-0.1-SNAPSHOT-job.jar
DEFINE DeviceFamily ua_parser.pig.device.Family;
DEFINE OsFamily ua_parser.pig.os.Family;
DEFINE OsMajor ua_parser.pig.os.Major;
DEFINE OsMinor ua_parser.pig.os.Minor;
DEFINE OsPatch ua_parser.pig.os.Patch;
DEFINE OsPatchMinor ua_parser.pig.os.PatchMinor;
DEFINE UseragentFamily ua_parser.pig.useragent.Family;
DEFINE UseragentMajor ua_parser.pig.useragent.Major;
DEFINE UseragentMinor ua_parser.pig.useragent.Minor;
DEFINE UseragentPatch ua_parser.pig.useragent.Patch;
UserAgents =
Load 'useragents.txt' AS (useragent:chararray);
AgentSpecs =
FOREACH UserAgents
GENERATE DeviceFamily(useragent) AS DeviceFamily:chararray,
OsFamily(useragent) AS OsFamily:chararray,
OsMajor(useragent) AS OsMajor:chararray,
OsMinor(useragent) AS OsMinor:chararray,
OsPatch(useragent) AS OsPatch:chararray,
OsPatchMinor(useragent) AS OsPatchMinor:chararray,
UseragentFamily(useragent) AS UseragentFamily:chararray,
UseragentMajor(useragent) AS UseragentMajor:chararray,
UseragentMinor(useragent) AS UseragentMinor:chararray,
UseragentPatch(useragent) AS UseragentPatch:chararray,
useragent AS Useragent;
DUMP AgentSpecs;
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use UAParser\Parser;
$ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Ma...";
$parser = Parser::create();
$result = $parser->parse($ua);
print $result->ua->family; // Safari
print $result->ua->major; // 6
print $result->ua->minor; // 0
print $result->ua->patch; // 2
print $result->ua->toString(); // Safari 6.0.2
print $result->ua->toVersion(); // 6.0.2
print $result->os->family; // Mac OS X
print $result->os->major; // 10
print $result->os->minor; // 7
print $result->os->patch; // 5
print $result->os->patchMinor; // [null]
print $result->os->toString(); // Mac OS X 10.7.5
print $result->os->toVersion(); // 10.7.5
print $result->device->family; // Other
print $result->toString(); // Safari 6.0.2/Mac OS X 10.7.5
print $result->uaOriginal; // Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Ma...
More information is available in the README in the PHP directory
import UaParser;
import std.stdio;
void main() {
auto agent = UaParser.parse("Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3");
std.stdio.writeln(agent.browser.family); // Mobile Safari
std.stdio.writeln(agent.browser.major); // 5
std.stdio.writeln(agent.browser.minor); // 1
std.stdio.writeln(agent.browser.patch); // 0
std.stdio.writeln(agent.browser.toString); // Mobile Safari 5.1.0
std.stdio.writeln(agent.browser.toVersionString); // 5.1.0
std.stdio.writeln(agent.os.family); // iOS
std.stdio.writeln(agent.os.major); // 5
std.stdio.writeln(agent.os.minor); // 1
std.stdio.writeln(agent.os.patch); // 1
std.stdio.writeln(agent.os.toString); // iOS 5.1.1
std.stdio.writeln(agent.os.toVersionString); // 5.1.1
std.stdio.writeln(agent.toFullString); // Mobile Safari 5.1.0/iOS 5.1.1
std.stdio.writeln(agent.device.family); // iPhone
std.stdio.writeln(agent.isMobile); // true
std.stdio.writeln(agent.isSpider); // false
}
Install the NuGet package
Install-Package UAParser
Sample Usage:
using System;
namespace UAParser.ConsoleApp
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
String uaString = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5";
Parser uaParser = Parser.GetDefault();
ClientInfo c = uaParser.Parse(uaString);
Console.WriteLine(c.UserAgent); //Safari 5.0.2
Console.WriteLine(c.OS); // Mac OS X 10.6.5
Console.WriteLine(c.Device); //
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
use HTTP::UA::Parser;
my $r = HTTP::UA::Parser->new();
print $r->ua->toString(); # -> "Safari 5.0.1"
print $r->ua->toVersionString(); # -> "5.0.1"
print $r->ua->family; # -> "Safari"
print $r->ua->major; # -> "5"
print $r->ua->minor; # -> "0"
print $r->ua->patch; # -> "1"
print $r->os->toString(); # -> "iOS 5.1"
print $r->os->toVersionString(); # -> "5.1"
print $r->os->family # -> "iOS"
print $r->os->major; # -> "5"
print $r->os->minor; # -> "1"
print $r->os->patch; # -> undef
print $r->device->family; # -> "iPhone"
More information is available in the README in the perl directory
Install the package:
cabal update
cabal install ua-parser
Sample Usage:
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
module Main where
import Web.UAParser
test_string = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B179 Safari/7534.48.3"
main = do
print $ parseUA test_string
print $ parseOS test_string
Result of running this program:
-- Result from user agent parse
Just (UAResult {uarFamily = "Mobile Safari", uarV1 = Just "5", uarV2 = Just "1", uarV3 = Nothing})
-- Result from operating system parse
Just (OSResult {osrFamily = "iOS", osrV1 = Just "5", osrV2 = Just "1", osrV3 = Nothing, osrV4 = Nothing})
Please refer to Haddocks for more info; the API is pretty straightforward.
Install the package:
go get "github.com/tobie/ua-parser/go/uaparser"
Sample Usage
package main
import (
"github.com/tobie/ua-parser/go/uaparser"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
testStr := "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us; Silk/1.1.0-80) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16 Silk-Accelerated=true"
regexFile := "../../regexes.yaml"
parser := uaparser.New(regexFile)
client := parser.Parse(testStr)
fmt.Println(client.UserAgent.Family) // "Amazon Silk"
fmt.Println(client.UserAgent.Major) // "1"
fmt.Println(client.UserAgent.Minor) // "1"
fmt.Println(client.UserAgent.Patch) // "0-80"
fmt.Println(client.Os.Family) // "Android"
fmt.Println(client.Os.Major) // ""
fmt.Println(client.Os.Minor) // ""
fmt.Println(client.Os.Patch) // ""
fmt.Println(client.Os.PatchMinor) // ""
fmt.Println(client.Device.Family) // "Kindle Fire"
}
More information is available in the README in the Go directory
The data contained in regexes.yaml
is Copyright (c) 2009 Google Inc. and other contributors, and available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
The original python code is Copyright (c) 2008 Google Inc. and other contributors,and is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
The JS port is Copyright (c) 2010 Tobie Langel and other contributors, and is available under your choice of MIT or Apache Version 2.0 license.
The PHP port is Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Dave Olsen and other contributors, and is available under the MIT license.
The Java port is Copyright (c) 2012 Twitter, Inc and other contributors, and is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
The D port is Copyright (c) 2012 Shripad K and other contributors, and is available under the MIT license.
The C# port is Copyright (c) 2012 Søren Enemærke and other contributors, and is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
The Perl port is Copyright (c) 2012 Mamod Mehyar and other contributors, and is available under the Perl License, Version 5.10.1.
The Pig port is Copyright (c) 2013 Niels Basjes and other contributors, and is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
The Go port is Copyright (c) 2013 Yihuan Zhou and other contributors, and is available under the MIT License.