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device-detector-node
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Port from Matomo Device Detector, package to parse any User Agent and detect the browser, operating system, device used (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, cars, console, etc.), brand and model.
This package is a port of matomo-org/device-detector from nodejs based on sanchezzzhak first port. Also use ua-parse-js package to complete some information that the matomo package don't provide.
Using npm:
$ npm install --save device-detector-node
Just add migatoseneca/nodejs-device-detector to your projects requirements. And use some code like this one:
const DeviceDetector = require('../index');
const detector = new DeviceDetector();
let user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 6.0.1; en-US; SM-G920F Build/LMY47X) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 UCBrowser/10.10.0.796 U3/0.8.0 Mobile Safari/534.30';
console.log(detector.detect(user_agent));
/**
* {
* browser: {
* type: 'browser',
* name: 'UC Browser',
* version: '10.10',
* engine: '',
* engine_version: ''
* },
* device: {
* vendor: 'Samsung',
* type: 'mobile',
* model: 'GALAXY S6'
* },
* os: {
* name: 'Android',
* version: '6.0',
* platform: 'x64'
* }
* }
*/
Last update: 2018/04/12
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Port from Matomo Device Detector, package to parse any User Agent and detect the browser, operating system, device used (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, cars, console, etc.), brand and model.
The npm package device-detector-node receives a total of 7 weekly downloads. As such, device-detector-node popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that device-detector-node demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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