bowser-mini

Lightweight browser detector with tiny output

Usage no npm install needed!

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  import bowserMini from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/bowser-mini';
</script>

README

Bowser Mini

This is an exact copy of Bowser, except smaller, and only returns something a logger can parse in a much smaller space. Use the below mapper object to translate the short string.

This package is ideal if you're storing log or analytic data.

String format

The string returned is 3 variables, separated by commas.

Variable 1: The Browser/OS/Platform/Engine types.

  • Byte 1: Browser
  • Byte 2: OS
  • Byte 3: Platform
  • Byte 4: Engine

Variable 2: The Browser version.

Variable 3: The OS version.

The Mapper Object...

cons mapper = {
  browser: { // Byte 1
    'A': 'Android Browser',
    'a': 'Amazon Silk',
    'b': 'Bada',
    'B': 'BlackBerry',
    'C': 'Chrome',
    'c': 'Chromium',
    'E': 'Electron',
    'e': 'Epiphany',
    'F': 'Firefox',
    'f': 'Focus',
    'g': 'Generic',
    'G': 'Googlebot',
    'S": 'Google Search',
    'X': 'Internet Explorer',
    'K': 'K-Meleon',
    'm': 'Maxthon',
    'x': 'Microsoft Edge',
    'z': 'MZ Browser',
    'n': 'NAVER Whale Browser',
    'O': 'Opera',
    'o': 'Opera Coast',
    'P': 'PhantomJS',
    'L': 'Playstation 4',
    'p': 'Puffin',
    'u': 'QupZilla',
    'Q': 'QQ Browser',
    'q': 'QQ Browser Lite',
    'S': 'Safari',
    '1': 'Sailfish',
    '2': 'Samsung Internet for Android',
    '3': 'SeaMonkey',
    '4': 'Sleipnir',
    '5': 'Swing',
    '6': 'Tizen',
    '7': 'UC Browser',
    '8': 'Vivaldi',
    '9': 'SlimerJS',
    'W': 'WebOS Browser',
    'w': 'WeChat',
    'Y': 'Yandex Browser',
    '?': 'Unknown'
  },
  os: { // Byte 2
    'W': 'Windows',
    'w': 'Windows Phone',
    'M': 'macOS',
    'i': 'iOS',
    'A': 'Android',
    'W': 'WebOS',
    'B': 'BlackBerry',
    'b': 'Bada',
    'T': 'Tizen',
    'L': 'Linux',
    'C': 'Chrome OS',
    'P': 'PlayStation 4',
    'R': 'Roku'
  },
  platforms: { // Byte 3
    'T': 'tablet',
    'M': 'mobile',
    'D': 'desktop',
    'V': 'tv'
  },
  engines: { // Byte 4
    'E': 'EdgeHTML',
    'B': 'Blink',
    'T': 'Trident',
    'P': 'Presto',
    'G': 'Gecko',
    'W': 'WebKit'
  }
}

Bowser

A small, fast and rich-API browser/platform/engine detector for both browser and node.

  • Small. Use plain ES5-version which is ~4.8kB gzipped.
  • Optimized. Use only those parsers you need — it doesn't do useless work.
  • Multi-platform. It's browser- and node-ready, so you can use it in any environment.

Don't hesitate to support the project on Github or OpenCollective if you like it ❤️ Also, contributors are always welcome!

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Contents

Overview

The library is made to help to detect what browser your user has and gives you a convenient API to filter the users somehow depending on their browsers.

⚠️ Version 2.0 breaking changes ⚠️

Version 2.0 has drastically changed the API. All available methods are on the docs page.

For legacy code, check out the 1.x branch and install it through npm install bowser@1.9.4.

Use cases

First of all, require the library. This is a UMD Module, so it will work for AMD, TypeScript, ES6, and CommonJS module systems.

const Bowser = require("bowser"); // CommonJS

import * as Bowser from "bowser"; // TypeScript

import Bowser from "bowser"; // ES6 (and TypeScript with --esModuleInterop enabled)

By default, the exported version is the ES5 transpiled version, which do not include any polyfills.

In case you don't use your own babel-polyfill you may need to have pre-built bundle with all needed polyfills. So, for you it's suitable to require bowser like this: require('bowser/bundled'). As the result, you get a ES5 version of bowser with babel-polyfill bundled together.

You may need to use the source files, so they will be available in the package as well.

Browser props detection

console.log(Bowser.parse(window.navigator.userAgent));

// outputs
"CWDB,79.0.3945.88,NT 10.0"