# UAParser
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A simple, fast user-agent parsing library based on [BrowserScope's](https://ua-profiler.appspot.com/) UA database with a good default dictionary.
## Installation
Add `:ua_parser` to your `mix.exs` dependencies:
```elixir
def deps do
[
{:ua_parser, "~> 1.8"}
]
end
```
## Usage
```elixir
iex> ua = UAParser.parse("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17 Skyfire/2.0")
%UAParser.UA{
device: %UAParser.Device{family: nil},
family: "Skyfire",
os: %UAParser.OperatingSystem{
family: "Mac OS X",
version: %UAParser.Version{major: "10", minor: "5", patch: "7", patch_minor: nil}
},
version: %UAParser.Version{major: "2", minor: "0", patch: nil, patch_minor: nil}
}
iex> to_string(ua)
"Skyfire 2.0"
iex> to_string(ua.os)
"Mac OS X 10.5.7"
iex> to_string(ua.device)
"Other"
```
Retrieving and parsing a user-agent string from Plug:
```elixir
ua =
conn
|> Plug.Conn.get_req_header("user-agent")
|> List.first()
|> UAParser.parse()
```
## Example
There is an example Phoenix application with a simple endpoint/route to retrieve the user agent header.
To run it, simply cd into the `example` directory, and run the following:
### Phoenix
```shell
$ mix do deps.get, compile
$ npm i && brunch build
# change the configuration to match your own postgres username/password
$ mix do ecto.create, ecto.migrate
$ iex -S mix phoenix.server
# visit localhost:4000/user_agent
```
### Plug
It can also be used as a simple plug:
```shell
mix new ua_plug
cd ua_plug
```
And now set up `mix.exs`:
```elixir
# ...
defp deps do
[
{:cowboy, "~> 1.0.0"},
{:plug, "~> 1.0"},
{:ua_parser, git: "https://github.com/beam-community/ua_parser.git",
branch: "master"},
]
end
# ...
```
And we get our deps and compile:
```shell
mix do deps.get, compile
```
And now we can make our plug:
```elixir
defmodule UAPlug do
import Plug.Conn
def init(options), do: options
def call(conn, _opts) do
ua =
conn
|> Plug.Conn.get_req_header("user-agent")
|> List.first()
|> UAParser.parse()
send_resp(200, ua)
end
end
```
From here we can pipe requests through it in other applications or use it on its own as we please.
## Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2016 Sean Callan
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at [http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.