rowser

An experimental browser/os/rendering engine/bot detector with proxied API

Table of contents

1. Installation
2. API
3. Usage
4. Possible flags
5. License

Installation

npm install rowser --save

yarn add rowser --save

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API

detect(ua: string = window.navigator.userAgent) => Object

Method detect runs detection process

summary: Object

Property summary saves result of the last detection

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Usage

By default, rowser gets window.navigator.userAgent as its ua parameter. So in browser environment you can simply do:

rowser.detect();

Also you can use custom useragent string:

const someMobilaUA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/11B554a';

rowser.detect(someMobilaUA);

After that, rowser.detect(ua) returns PlainObject as result:

rowser.detect(someMobilaUA);
// =>
//  {
//    device: "iPhone",
//    engine: "WebKit",
//    engineversion: "537.51",
//    ios: true,
//    name: "Safari",
//    osname: "iOS",
//    osversion: "7.0.4",
//    safari: true,
//    version: "",
//    webkit: true
//  }

NOTE: if you call rowser.detect('') you will get an empty object:

rowser.detect('');
// => {}

After detection rowser saves result in its property called summary:

rowser.summary
// =>
//  {
//    device: "iPhone",
//    engine: "WebKit",
//    engineversion: "537.51",
//    ios: true,
//    name: "Safari",
//    osname: "iOS",
//    osversion: "7.0.4",
//    safari: true,
//    version: "",
//    webkit: true
//  }

NOTE: When detection is done rowser's proxied API will allow you to get result's directly:

rowser.device
// => 'iPhone'

rowser.ios
// => true

rowser.osversion
// => '7.0.4'

Additionally for boolean props, you can add is-prefixes to props names:

rowser.isWebkit
// => true

rowser.iswebkit
// => true

rowser.isWeBkIt
// => true

rowser.isWEBKIT
// => true

rowser.isSafari
// => true

rowser.issafari
// => true

rowser.isSaFArI
// => true

rowser.isSAFARI
// => true

NOTE: is-prefixed props are case insensetive

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Possible flags

Browsers

Browser | Summary flag --------------------------- | ------------ Android Browser | androidbrowser BlackBerry Browser | blackberrybrowser, bbbrowser Chromium | chromium Google Chrome | chrome Google Search App | gsa, googlesearchapp Dolphin Browser | dolphin Dorothy Browser | dorothy Epiphany | epiphany Mozilla Firefox | firefox Mozilla Firefox Focus | firefox, firefoxfocus Microsoft Internet Explorer | msie K-Meleon | kmeleon Maxthon | maxthon Microsoft Edge | msedge OmniWeb | omniweb Opera | opera Opera Coast | opera, operacoast Opera Mini | opera, operamini Opera Mobile | opera, operamobile Opera Neon | opera, operaneon Pale Moon | palemoon PhantomJS | phantomjs Puffin | puffin QupZilla | qupzilla Rambler Browser | ramblerbrowser, nichrome Apple Safari | safari Sailfish Browser | sailfishbrowser Samsung Internet | samsungbrowser, samsunginternet SeaMonkey | seamonkey Amazon Silk | silk Skyfire | skyfire Sleipnir | sleipnir SlimerJS | slimerjs Tesla Car Browser | teslacarbrowser, qtcarbrowser Tizen Browser | tizenbrowser UC Browser | ucbrowser Vivaldi | vivaldi webOS Browser | webosbrowser Yandex Browser | yandexbrowser

Rendering engines

Rendering engine | Summary flag ----------------- | ------------ Blink | blink EdgeHTML | edgehtml Gecko | gecko Goanna | goanna Presto | presto Trident | trident WebKit | webkit

Operating systems

Operating system | Summary flag ----------------- | ------------ Android | android (SOON) Android TV | androidtv (SOON) Bada | bada BlackBerry OS | blackberry Chrome OS | chromeos (SOON) Firefox OS | firefoxos, fxos iOS | ios Linux | linux macOS | macos NetCast | netcast Sailfish | sailfish Tizen | tizen webOS | webos Windows | windows Windows Phone | windowsphone

Bots

Bots/Crawlers/Spiders | Summary flag ---------------------- | ------------ Alexa Crawlers | alexacrawler Baidu Spiders | baiduspider Bing Crawlers | bingbot DuckDuckBot | duckduckbot Exabot | exabot Facebook Bot | facebookbot Google Crawlers | googlebot LinkedIn Bot | linkedinbot Majestic-12 Crawler | mj12bot Pinterest Bot | pinterestbot SlackBot | slackbot Sogou Spiders | sogouspider StackRambler | stackrambler TelegramBot | telegrambot Twitter Bot | twitterbot WhatsApp Bot | whatsappbot Yahoo! Slurp | yahooslurp Yandex Crawlers | yandexbot

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License

MIT © Alex Orekhov

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