<imgalign="right"src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/gh-pages/images/logo.png"> A JavaScript-based User-Agent string parser. Can be used either in browser (client-side) or in node.js (server-side) environment. Also available as jQuery/Zepto plugin, Bower/Meteor package, & RequireJS/AMD module. This library aims to identify detailed type of web browser, layout engine, operating system, cpu architecture, and device type/model, entirely from user-agent string with a relatively small footprint (~11KB when minified / ~4KB gzipped). Written in vanilla JavaScript, which means it doesn't require any other library and can be used independently. However, it's not recommended to use this library as browser detection since the result may not accurate than using feature detection.
// by default it takes ua string from current browser's window.navigator.userAgent
console.log(parser.getResult());
/*
/// this will print an object structured like this:
{
ua: "",
browser: {
name: "",
version: ""
},
engine: {
name: "",
version: ""
},
os: {
name: "",
version: ""
},
device: {
model: "",
type: "",
vendor: ""
},
cpu: {
architecture: ""
}
}
*/
// let's test a custom user-agent string as an example
var uastring = "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";
parser.setUA(uastring);
var result = parser.getResult();
// this will also produce the same result (without instantiation):
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
```
## Using requirejs
```js
requirejs.config({
baseUrl : 'js/lib', // path to your script directory
paths : {
'ua-parser-js' : 'ua-parser.min'
}
});
requirejs(['ua-parser-js'], function(UAParser) {
var parser = new UAParser();
console.log(parser.getResult());
});
```
## Using bower
```sh
$ bower install ua-parser-js
```
## Using meteor
```sh
$ meteor add faisalman:ua-parser-js
```
## Using jQuery/Zepto ($.ua)
Although written in vanilla js (which means it doesn't depends on jQuery), this library will automatically detect if jQuery/Zepto is present and create `$.ua` object based on browser's user-agent (although in case you need, `window.UAParser` constructor is still present). To get/set user-agent you can use: `$.ua.get()` / `$.ua.set(uastring)`.
```js
// In 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':
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