useragent.codes

What is useragent.codes ?

A small and easy but useful webservice to identify user-agents (browsers). I created it because I needed to identify browser + OS on another project. Browscap was not possible to use, because it gives you a 73MB JSON (minified). Not a good choice for a JavaScript-only frontend project.

Why do I need it?

Have you (as a developer) ever tried to identify you browser & OS via navigator.useragent by yourself? You have to parse this string and often it looks very different on various browsers and systems.

Believe me, you don't want to do this by yourself. It sucks.

How does it work?

It's simple: I used UA-Parser's PHP implementation and put it on a server. It returns a JSON string with all the available information.

How do I use it?

Just request https://useragent.codes/get and the response will look something like this:

{
  "info":{
    "name":"useragent.codes",
    "version":"v0.1"
  },
  "browser":{
    "fullName":"Chrome 59.0.3071",
    "name":"Chrome",
    "version":"59.0.3071",
    "major":"59",
    "minor":"0",
    "patch":"3071"
  },
  "system":{
    "fullName":"Windows 10",
    "name":"Windows 10",
    "version":"",
    "major":null,
    "minor":null,
    "patch":null,
    "patchMinor":null
  },
  "device":{
    "brand":null,
    "model":null,
    "family":"Other"
  }
}

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A Project by Tom Lutzenberger