Fast Middleware exposing user-agent for NodeJS
express-useragent is a simple NodeJS/ExpressJS user-agent middleware exposing user-agent details to your application and views.
Installation is done using the Node Package Manager (npm). If you don't have npm installed on your system you can download it from npmjs.org To install express-useragent:
$ npm install express-useragent --save
var http = require('http')
, useragent = require('express-useragent');
var srv = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
var source = req.headers['user-agent'],
ua = useragent.parse(source);
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end(JSON.stringify(ua));
});
srv.listen(3000);
for TrinteJS
is permanently included
var useragent = require('express-useragent');
module.exports = function (app, express) {
app.use(function () {
app.use(useragent.express());
});
};
for ExpressJS
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var useragent = require('express-useragent');
app.use(useragent.express());
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.send(req.useragent);
});
app.listen(3000);
module provides details such as the following:
{
"isMobile":false,
"isDesktop":true,
"isBot":false,
.....
"browser":"Chrome",
"version":"17.0.963.79",
"os":"Windows 7",
"platform":"Microsoft Windows",
"source":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79..."
}
If you are using express
or connect
, then express-useragent
provides an easy way to access the user-agent as:
req.useragent
from your app serveruseragent
helper accessible from yourexpress
views.
- Clone the repo:
git clone git://github.com/biggora/express-useragent.git
- Or Install with Bower:
bower install express-useragent
.
The client side version of express-useragent available in the lib/
subdirectory.
<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/express-useragent.js"></script>
var userAgent = new UserAgent().parse(navigator.userAgent);
Ensure you have nodeunit by running npm install -g nodeunit
.
Then, run npm test
.
npm install
npm test
npm run-script http
npm run-script express
The following projects use express-useragent.
If you are using express-useragent in a project, app, or module, get on the list below by getting in touch or submitting a pull request with changes to the README.
Aleksejs Gordejevs (aleksej@gordejev.lv).
(The MIT License)
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