Go/Golang package for parsing user agent strings

Use useragent.Parse(userAgent string) function to parse browser's and bot's user agents strings and get:

• User agent name and version (Chrome, Firefox, Googlebot, etc.)
• Operating system name and version (Windows, Android, iOS etc.)
• Device type (mobile, desktop, tablet, bot)
• Device name if available (iPhone, iPad, Huawei VNS-L21)
• URL provided by the bot (http://www.google.com/bot.html etc.)

Status

Stable. I use it on high traffic websites on every single request, as well on my Lite Analytics service.

I constantly improve user agents detection and performance. Fill free to report an issue for any User-Agent string not recognized or misinterpreted.

Installation

go get github.com/mileusna/useragent

Example

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"

    "github.com/mileusna/useragent"
)

func main() {
    userAgents := []string{
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14F89 Safari/602.1",	
        "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/8.1.1b4948 Mobile/14F89 Safari/603.2.4",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 10_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14F89 Safari/602.1",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.3; GT-I9300 Build/JSS15J) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.125 Mobile Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.3; Mobile; rv:54.0) Gecko/54.0 Firefox/54.0",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.3; GT-I9300 Build/JSS15J) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.91 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/42.9.2246.119956",
        "Opera/9.80 (Android; Opera Mini/28.0.2254/66.318; U; en) Presto/2.12.423 Version/12.16",
    }

    for _, s := range userAgents {
        ua := useragent.Parse(s)
        fmt.Println()
        fmt.Println(ua.String)
        fmt.Println(strings.Repeat("=", len(ua.String)))
        fmt.Println("Name:", ua.Name, "v", ua.Version)
        fmt.Println("OS:", ua.OS, "v", ua.OSVersion)
        fmt.Println("Device:", ua.Device)
        if ua.Mobile {
            fmt.Println("(Mobile)")
        }
        if ua.Tablet {
            fmt.Println("(Tablet)")
        }
        if ua.Desktop {
            fmt.Println("(Desktop)")
        }
        if ua.Bot {
            fmt.Println("(Bot)")
        }
        if ua.URL != "" {
            fmt.Println(ua.URL)
        }
    }
}

Shorthand functions

Beside UserAgent{} struct and its properties returned by useragent.Parse(), there is a bunch of shorthand functions for most popular browsers and operating systems, so this code:

    ua := useragent.Parse(userAgentString)
    if ua.OS == "Android" && ua.Name == "Chrome" {
        // do something
    }

can be also written on this way:

    ua := useragent.Parse(userAgentString)
    if ua.IsAndroid() && ua.IsChrome() {
        // do something
    }

Notice

• Opera and Opera Mini are two browsers, since they operate on very different ways.
• If Googlebot (or any other bot) is detected and it is using its mobile crawler, both bot and mobile flags will be set to true.